ORDINARY ITEMS, EXTRAORDINARY STORIES
How a children’s chocolate drink became a symbol of French colonialism
With its red fez, broad smile and simplified French, Banania’s mascot has been associated with racist stereotypes.
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UN Secretary-General Guterres ‘strongly encourages’ Israel, Hamas to agree to deal
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Germany argued that vast majority of transfers to Israel were ‘non-military’
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