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In the second October plenary session, Parliament voted to reverse cuts to the EU's 2014 budget proposed by the Council and amended the current budget to cover its €2.7 billion deficit. MEPs also voted for suspending the US-EU deal on tracking terrorist financial activities as a response to the alleged tapping of Europeans' bank data. Aung San Suu Kyi received her Sakharov prize in what president Martin Schulz described as a great moment for which an entire generation had been waiting for.

A woman drives a car in Saudi Arabia on October 22, 2013.

A new database developed by the British Universities Film and Video Council and University of Portsmouth researchers as part of an AHRC-funded project, Channel 4 and British Film Culture, reveals the impact of ‘Press Packs’ on the success of the UK’s new ‘fourth channel’, and provides a searchable resource for media historians.

Singled out as one of three finalists in its category and chosen from among more than 900 entries, Conservation International’s film, Field Chronicles: Chingaza – The Water’s Journey was honored with “Best Educational Program” at the prestigious Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival last week in Wyoming.

The Ark of Return, the winning design of an international competition for the Permanent Memorial in Honour of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade was unveiled by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki moon at a ceremony at UN Headquarters.

The mission organized with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and local authorities found that while the buildings were not badly damaged, 600 of the Museum’s collection of 1080 artefacts were missing (see Inventory from the Mallawi National Museum).

Lithuania's presidency of the EU Council provides an occasion for Litvaks to gather on the narrow streets of the Old Town of Vilnius. The contribution of Litvaks – Jews with roots in the Grand Duchy and their descendants – to the culture of both Lithuania and the world is outstanding. Did you know that both the cellist Jascha Heifetz and the artist Samuel Bak were born in Vilnius, and that sculptor Jacques Lipchitz was born in Druskininkai? Canadian poet and singer Leonard Cohen, iconic U.S. musician Bob Dylan, and Philip Glass, perhaps the most famous avant-garde minimalist composer of the twentieth century, can also in some sense be referred to as Litvaks because their ancestors came from Lithuanian Jewish families.

The EP’s foreign affairs committee has called on the Muslim Brotherhood to return to the negotiation table and give up violence. The committee held a special meeting on 28 August, during which members debated how to get the troubled country back on the track to democracy.

UNESCO / Professor Maamoun Abdul Karim,
The Al-Omari Mosque

The European Commission and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) agreed to extend their cooperation in strengthening public media in the countries of the European Neighbourhood.