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Biden to bestow Medal of Honor on two Civil War heroes who helped hijack a train in confederacy

President Joe Biden is awarding the Medal of Honor for “conspicuous gallantry” to a pair of Union soldiers who stole a locomotive deep in Confederate territory during the Civil War and drove it north for 87 miles as they destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph lines

The Independent UK

The Road to the Country: novelist Chigozie Obioma on Nigeria’s brutal civil war, love and redemption

Chigozie Obioma is the Nigerian author of the novels The Fishermen (2015) and An Orchestra of Minorities (2019), both shortlisted for the Booker Prize for their unique, folkloric tales of Nigerian life in decades past. Like them, his 2024 novel The Road to the Country is “tinged with fable and…

The Conversation

Ravaged by civil war, how a national park was restored in Mozambique

Gorongosa National Park was decimated after the war that ended in 1992. But it is a successful conservation story today.

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R. Sampanthan, the face of Sri Lanka's Tamil minority and its struggle post-civil war, dies at 91

Rajavarothiyam Sampanthan, a senior ethnic Tamil leader and lawmaker, who became the face of the minority community’s campaign for autonomy in Sri Lanka since the end of a brutal quarter-century civil war, has died

The Independent UK

Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 review – Kevin Costner’s very, very long cowboy epic is no Yellowstone

The actor and filmmaker self-financed this elaborate American civil war franchise, with part two of a proposed four or five films due in cinemas within weeks. But at 181 dull minutes, it feels like a journey to nowhere

The Independent UK

French court upholds arrest warrant for Syria’s Assad

The Paris appeals court on Wednesday ruled that an international arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued by France for alleged complicity in war crimes during Syria’s civil war is valid and remains in place, lawyers said.

France 24

Macron warns of ‘civil war’ in France if far right or far left win election

Marine Le Pen’s National Rally are polling at around 34 per cent, compared with 22 per cent for Mr Macron’s party

The Independent UK

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Emmanuel Macron: win for far left or far right ‘will spark civil war’

French president’s comments made on podcast as RN releases manifesto pledging to ‘limit immigration’

The Guardian - UK

Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan wins the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024

Brotherless Night is an unforgettable coming-of-age novel, an awakening from tribal loyalties into new-found identity and agency. It is set in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, during the civil war between Sri Lanka’s Sinhalese ethnic majority and the country’s Tamil minority. Between 1983 and 2009, this bitter conflict resulted in the deaths…

The Conversation

Swedish Court Acquits Former Syrian General Of War Crimes Charges

A Stockholm court on Thursday acquitted a Syrian former general of war crimes charges, saying prosecutors had not proved his involvement in the attacks carried out during the country's civil war.

International Business Times

Peruvian soldiers found guilty of rapes committed during civil war in historic verdict

‘Landmark’ case is first to deal with use of sexual violence in state’s conflict with Shining Path rebels four decades ago

The Guardian - UK

Sudan One Of World's 'Worst Crises' In Decades: Medical Charity

The ongoing civil war in Sudan has provoked one of the world's worst humanitarian crises in decades, the international chief of the medical charity Doctors Without Borders said Thursday.

International Business Times

On Juneteenth, monument dedicated in Alabama to those who endured slavery

The Equal Justice Initiative nonprofit invoked the Juneteenth holiday as it dedicated a monument that honors the people who endured and survived slavery

The Independent UK

Canada’s family-based immigration program for Sudanese fleeing war is too little, too late

Sudan’s civil war has forcibly displaced more than 9.2 million people since it began in April 2023. This represents not only the largest internal displacement situation globally, it’s also a growing humanitarian emergency affecting 25 million people.

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A journalist traces his family tree back to ancestor who served in Black regiment in Civil War

Darren Sands, now a reporter for The Associated Press, was researching his family history three years ago when he found a riveting missing piece

The Guardian - UK

Civil war, what civil war? The so-called Tory moderates never even put up a fight

By pitching only to Reform voters, Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives have given up even trying to be a party of mainstream Britain, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Al Jazeera

‘Bring hard justice’: Liberia civil war survivors welcome war crimes court

President signs order promising establishment of a war crimes court in efforts to bring justice 21 years after conflict.

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Yemen's Bank Rivalry Threatens Economy Amid Civil War

Yemen's financial crisis escalates as rival factions battle for control of banks, leading to currency devaluation and economic distress.

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‘I don’t want to take these characters home’: Jesse Plemons on life playing the psychopath next door

Chilling performances in Breaking Bad, Civil War and now Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness have made the actor cinema’s go-to wrong ‘un – but the roles he plays can be hard to shake off

The Guardian - UK

‘Don’t read just one book about Sri Lanka’: VV Ganeshananthan on her civil war novel

Women’s prize for fiction winner tells story of a family caught up in conflict in her second novel, Brotherless Night

The Independent UK

Jesse Plemons addresses ‘unfortunate’ Ozempic rumors amid his weight loss journey

‘Civil War’ star credits intermittent fasting for his recent weight loss

The Guardian - UK

Spain publishes list of art seized during civil war and Franco dictatorship

Culture ministry hopes to help people reclaim family property plundered by Franco regime

Salon

Supreme Court’s Civil War callback

A stunning historical parallel: Supreme Court injustice, Donald Trump and Jefferson Davis

The Independent UK

Myanmar's economy in crisis as civil strife disrupts trade and livelihoods

Myanmar, once a thriving emerging economy, is struggling to regain momentum as the country's civil war increasingly disrupts trade and livelihoods

Evening Standard

House of the Dragon series 2: As civil war approaches in Westeros, who are the Greens and Blacks?

The hit show returns soon – and if you’re mixing up the Targaryens with the Hightowers, we’re here to help

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