There were masks and body suits made of female skin, along with human skulls for soup bowls and other disturbing oddities.
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Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
In recent years, objects looted from Benin City by British soldiers in 1897 — commonly known as Benin Bronzes — have been returned to Nigeria, Asante artifacts have been returned to Ghana, and France has sent colonial-era skulls back to Madagascar.
There are good reasons for wanting to learn from Switzerland’s experience.
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Peter Vanham,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
Layoffs can occur for many reasons; while they can be viewed as a signal about how companies view economic headwinds, the reasons may also be more localized to individual companies amid restructuring or plans to maximize profits.
The festival also falls during the seventh anniversary of the assassination of Washington Post columnist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi, which a US intelligence report says happened at the behest of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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Liam Reilly,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
The office of the director of national intelligence is expected to make an announcement on the Havana Syndrome investigation soon, two sources told the Herald.
The folks in charge think Gabriel’s brains, accuracy and ability to process under fire give him a chance to overcome his 5-foot-11 stature.
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Zac Jackson,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
One paper, published Tuesday by startup Pathway, makes some big claims about a new kind of transformer model that the authors say more closely mimics the way human brains actually work.
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