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Forty years ago, mobs in Sri Lanka burned 13 people alive, part of a week-long pogrom that turbocharged simmering ethnic unrest into all-out civil...
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Korean War veteran Ryu Jae-sik has had a bullet fired by a Chinese soldier lodged in his chest for 70 years, a constant reminder...
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William Noun and Maria Fares were united by loss after a devastating blast ripped through Lebanon’s capital three years ago. Now engaged, the couple...
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North Korea is planning a “grand” Korean War armistice anniversary celebration this week that will be attended by Chinese diplomats, the first known foreign...
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Sri Lanka tightened security on Sunday as activists lit oil lamps in the capital Colombo commemorating the hundreds killed in 1983 anti-Tamil riots that...
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Two years ago, Marta Perdomo and Liset Fonseca were two unassuming Cuban women with little interest in politics and no social media footprint. That...
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Since the beginning of June, Ukraine's army has been on the offensive to reconquer territory captured by Russian forces.
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Aneira Thomas holds the honour of being the first baby born on Britain’s National Health Service and, as they both celebrate their 75th birthday,...
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Seventy years ago, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepali Tenzing Norgay Sherpa became the first humans to summit Everest on May 29, 1953. The...
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Thousands from across the occupied West Bank demonstrated Monday, waving Palestinian flags to mark the 75th anniversary of the “Nakba” or “catastrophe” which they...