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What Ever Happened To?
The northern white rhinocerus: Sudan, the last male died on 18 March 2018 at age 45. The northern white rhino is considered extinct since the death of Sudan. The last females, Najin (35) and her daugher Fatu (25), are the only remaining members of their species on the planet. They live in Kenya and are guarded 24/7 by armed guards. Photo © IMAGO / Xinhua
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People like to say that we cannot know how we ourselves would have acted under Nazi terror. Now we know: we simply would not have acted.
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Milo Rau, Interview with Profil,
4 October 2025
Vienna Diplomatic Academy World Press Freedom Day 2025
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Ambassador Jan Braathu OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Torokul Doorov Director of Kazakh Service at Radio Free Liberty, Edith Meinhart “Die Dunkelkammer”, Scott Griffin IPI and Sebastian Rosenauer Ö3 discussed safeguarding journalism in the age of AI.
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Io’s volcanic surface During its close flyby of Jupiter’s moon Io on 30 December 2023, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured some of the most detailed imagery ever of Io’s volcanic surface. © NASA/JPL–Caltech/Southwest Research Institute /Malin Space Science Systems, image processing: Emma Wälimäki © CC BY
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Poem of the Week
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend’s were.
Each man’s death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
For Whom the Bell Tools by John Donne (1572 – 1631)
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