For years, the Sicilian Mafia terrorised the Italian public and state, with its highest-profile killings that of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992.
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2 years agoScientists have discovered a hidden passage inside Egypt's Great Pyramid, the authorities announced on Thursday.
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2 years agoEminent Indonesian man of letters Goenawan Mohamad breaks down the boundaries between the written word and visual art, as he releases a new anthology of poems and an exhibition of prints
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