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Barham Salih

Barham Salih (برهم صالح), born 1960 in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdish Iraqi PUK politician; President of Iraq 2018–2022, twice KRG prime minister, and 12th UNHCR High Commissioner since January 2026.

Barhiapur Or Bhadar Khas Mound

Barhiapur or Bhadar Khas Mound, Gorakhpur district, Uttar Pradesh: a centrally protected ASI site (serial 3424, Sarnath Circle) described as a series of enormous mounds.

Bari, capital of Puglia on Italy's Adriatic coast, is the region's largest city (315,284 inhabitants, ISTAT 2020) and third of southern Italy, a major Adriatic port, home of the Basilica of San Nicola, and site of an ongoing PNRR-funded BRT and urban renewal program.

Bari (district)

Bari is a region of Somalia at the country's northeastern tip, capital Bossaso, part of Puntland since 1998; economy of frankincense, goats, and fishing; population estimates 723,755 to 1,232,231; ISS insurgency in Al Miskaad mountains.

Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss, American journalist, founder of The Free Press (formerly Common Sense), and editor-in-chief of CBS News since October 2025 after Paramount's reported $150 million acquisition; former WSJ and NYT opinion editor who resigned in 2020.

BARI2D trial

BARI 2D (Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation 2 Diabetes), an NHLBI-funded 2x2 factorial randomized trial of 2,368 patients with type 2 diabetes and stable coronary disease, comparing revascularization versus medical therapy and insulin-sensitizing versus insulin-providing glycemic strategies.

Sep 19, 2026

Baria

Baria, also known as Villaricos, was a Phoenician and later Punic city at the mouth of the río Almanzora in Almería, Spain, sacked by Scipio in 209 BC.

Bariadi

Bariadi, town and regional capital of Simiyu Region, Tanzania; seat of Bariadi District Council. 260,927 residents in the 2022 census; cotton farming dominates the local economy; elevation about 1,282 m.

Bariatric surgery

Bariatric surgery, also called metabolic or weight-loss surgery, changes the digestive system to treat obesity. Main procedures are sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass; it improves type 2 diabetes and other obesity-related conditions.

Bariatrics

Bariatrics, also called bariatric medicine or metabolic and bariatric surgery, is the medical field treating obesity through medical weight management and digestive-system operations such as gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy, distinguished from general weight-loss advice by surgical indications based on BMI thresholds.

Baricitinib

Baricitinib (Olumiant) is an oral JAK1/JAK2 inhibitor, first FDA-approved systemic treatment for severe alopecia areata (June 2022), also used for rheumatoid arthritis and COVID-19; dosed 2 or 4 mg daily.

Barid

The barid (برید) was the state postal and intelligence service of the Islamic world, carried on in India under the Ghaznavids and the Delhi Sultanate.

Barid Shahi dynasty

The Barid Shahi dynasty (برید شاہی سلطنت) ruled the sultanate of Bidar in the Deccan from the late fifteenth century until Bijapur annexed it in 1619.

Barid Shahi takeover of Bidar

The Barid Shahi takeover of Bidar (बीदर की बारीदशाही) was the seizure of power at Bidar, the Bahmani capital in the Deccan, by the Barid family of ministers from about 1490.

Bariduum

Bariduum (Bariduo on the Peutinger Table) was a Roman road station in Dalmatia on the Salona–Servitium road, identified with Livno, Bosnia; home area of the Baridustae miners.

Barilari Bay

Barilari Bay (Bahía Barilari) is a glacier-marine fjord on the Graham Coast of the west Antarctic Peninsula at 65°55′S 64°43′W, named for Argentine admiral Atilio Barilari, with five tidewater glaciers and warm deep-water intrusions.

Bariloche

Bariloche (San Carlos de Bariloche), Argentine Andean city on Lake Nahuel Huapi in Río Negro; founded 1902 around Carlos Wiederhold's 1895 store; gateway to Nahuel Huapi National Park, alpine architecture, Centro Cívico, ski and chocolate tourism.

Barinas (city)

Barinas is a western Venezuelan city, capital of Barinas state, founded in 1577 as Altamira de Cáceres and twice relocated, to Moromoy in 1628 and to San Antonio de los Cerritos in 1759-1762, growing from tobacco and cattle.

Barinas (district)

Barinas (district), or Distrito Barinas, was a second-order administrative division around the city of Barinas, capital of Barinas state, Venezuela; recorded at 8°20′N 70°05′W, part of the 7-district structure of 1955, later superseded by municipalities.

Sep 27, 2026

Barinder Kumar Goyal

Barinder Kumar Goyal is an Indian Aam Aadmi Party politician, MLA for Lehra since 2022 and a Punjab minister holding the water resources and mines portfolios.

Barindra Kumar Ghose

Barindra Kumar Ghose (বারীন্দ্রকুমার ঘোষ) was a Bengali revolutionary against British rule, younger brother of Sri Aurobindo, who founded the weekly Jugantar, led the Maniktala secret society, and later became a Calcutta editor.

Baringo

Baringo is a county in Kenya's Rift Valley, capital Kabarnet, area 11,075 km², seven sub-counties, ~80% arid, economy led by livestock and agriculture, home to Lake Baringo and Lake Bogoria.

Barings Bank

Barings Bank, also known as Baring Brothers, was a London merchant bank founded in 1762 by John and Francis Baring. It collapsed in 1995 after unauthorized trading losses.

Sep 21, 2026

Bariş Boyraz

Bariş Boyraz is a Turkish-trained physician-scientist and board-certified anatomic pathologist specializing in breast and gynecologic pathology at Weill Cornell Medical College, known for research on telomere disease.

Barisal District

Barisal District (বরিশাল জেলা), southern Bangladesh, headquarters of Barisal Division; formerly Bakerganj District (1797-1993) after Aga Bakar; 2,784.52 sq km, ten upazilas, 2,570,450 people (2022 census).

Barisal Division

Barisal Division (বরিশাল বিভাগ), Bangladesh's southern deltaic division, established 1 January 1993, with six districts and 40 upazilas, 8.1 million people (2011), high poverty and cyclone exposure, agriculture-based economy.

Oct 20, 2026

Barisan Mountains

Barisan Mountains (Pegunungan Bukit Barisan), the volcanic spine of western Sumatra, Indonesia, formed by subduction of the Indian-Australian Plate, cut by the 1,900-km Sumatran Fault, with Mount Kerinci (3,805 m) as Indonesia's highest volcano.

Barisan Nasional

Barisan Nasional (National Front), Malaysian political coalition formed 1973 from the expanded Alliance of UMNO, MCA, and MIC; ruled Malaysia with two-thirds majorities 1974-2004, lost federal power in 2018, and now serves in Anwar Ibrahim's unity government.

Oct 22, 2026

Barisan Sosialis

Barisan Sosialis (Socialist Front) was a left-wing opposition party in Singapore, formed in 1961 after a split from the People's Action Party and led by Lim Chin Siong and Lee Siew Choh.