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Stuart Braun

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Germany's strangest laws: Why dancing can get you fined

From dance and movie bans on religious holidays to prohibitions on sandcastle building on Baltic beaches, Germany has some bizzare regulations.

13.08.2025 90

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Stuart Braun

Berlin to change racist street name after legal battle

The renaming of a Berlin boulevard that has used a racist term to Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Strasse, after Germany's first African-born scholar, highlights a...

16.07.2025 60

Deutsche Welle

Stuart Braun

Music industry faces censorship after Bob Vylan controversy

The UK punk duo who chanted "Death to the IDF" at Glastonbury festival are facing concert cancellations. Event organizers feel the pressure...

16.07.2025 60

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Stuart Braun

Beyond Trump's film tariffs: Is Hollywood really in decline?

Fewer films are being made in the US. But will tariffs alone bring back productions to LA in the face of a more globalized industry?

28.05.2025 20

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Stuart Braun

Iranian artists face worsening persecution

As the makers of award-winning film "My Favourite Cake" face trial in Tehran, months after rapper Toomaj Salehi narrowly avoided execution,...

11.03.2025 10

Deutsche Welle

Stuart Braun

Was Nazi-looted art concealed from Jewish heirs?

Artworks by Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso are among hundreds in a state collection in Bavaria that were knowingly stolen by the Nazis. Yet the heirs of...

28.02.2025 20

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Stuart Braun

LA wildfires: Did climate change make them worse?

The extremely hot, dry and windy conditions that drove the destructive LA fires were likely due to global heating, a new weather attribution study...

30.01.2025 10

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Stuart Braun

What has been said at the landmark ICJ climate hearings?

Nations on the front line of the climate crisis are asking the International Court of Justice to oblige big polluters to keep their promises to...

08.12.2024 10

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Stuart Braun

Why fertile land is turning to desert

Four football fields of land degrade into desert every second. That equates to an area almost as large as Ethiopia each year. Could efforts to...

06.12.2024 10

Deutsche Welle

Stuart Braun