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Back in Ukraine, the BBC spoke on Friday to a couple repairing the small store they own in a suburb of Kyiv, after it was obliterated by Russian missiles last month.

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Live performances rooted in the Black experience, and scripted by Strachan, take place among museum visitors, obliterating the divide between art and spectator.

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Hezbollah believed it controlled Lebanon and that its thousands of rockets could obliterate Israel.

The Hall of Extinction and Hope analogizes manmade climate change and habitat destruction to a slow-moving asteroid that has already obliterated species such as the passenger pigeon, dodo and great auk.

In June, a UN independent international commission of inquiry said Israel had "obliterated Gaza's education system".

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