Sri Lanka's Civil War Legacy: Families Still Seek Answers Families in Sri Lanka seek closure and justice 15 years after the civil war, as the quest for truth continues. Top News · May 18, 2024
Syrian exiles hunt down Assad’s torturers in gripping Cannes thriller “Ghost Trail”, which opened the Critics’ Week sidebar in Cannes this week, follows a Syrian exile’s pursuit of the man who tortured him during the country’s civil war. FRANCE 24 spoke to French director Jonathan Millet, whose impressive Cannes debut delivered one of the festival’s early hits. France 24 · May 18, 2024
Dead or alive? Parents of children gone in Sri Lanka's civil war have spent 15 years seeking answers It has been 15 years since the end of Sri Lanka's civil war, which pitted government forces against Tamil Tiger separatists The Independent UK · May 18, 2024
Sri Lanka Tamils Mark 15 Years Since End Of Civil War Sri Lanka's minority Tamil community marked 15 years since the end of the island nation's civil war on Saturday in an emotional ceremony that proceeded despite fears authorities would attempt to prevent its staging. International Business Times · May 18, 2024
‘We are on the brink’: One in three chance of “civil war,” warns billionaire investors Hedge fund manager and investor says America’s polarizing political climate could push it into a civil war The Independent UK · May 17, 2024
After the civil war, the stifling impasse in Sri Lanka The Tamil people in Sri Lanka must rethink their strategies, depart from the isolationist and suicidal politics that has reduced them to historical irrelevance, and join forces with all the peoples The Hindu · May 17, 2024
Billionaire investor Ray Dalio warns U.S. is ‘on the brink’ and estimates a more than one in three chance of civil war The Bridgewater hedge fund founder recommends only investing in the 'best parts' of the United States and moving the rest to more stable and attractive jurisdictions like Malaysia and Vietnam. Fortune · May 16, 2024
Succession’s J Smith-Cameron to star opposite Mark Rylance in Juno and the Paycock Actors to play the lead roles in Matthew Warchus’s centenary West End revival of Seán O’Casey’s Irish civil war classic The Guardian - UK · May 14, 2024
Our Mothers review – intimate drama exploring the legacy of Guatemala’s bloody civil war Director César Díaz’s award-winning debut powerfully confronts his country’s past The Guardian - UK · May 12, 2024
Wide Awakes: the young Americans who marched the north to civil war Smithsonian curator Jon Grinspan discusses his dramatic new book about a spontaneous movement that helped elect Abraham Lincoln The Guardian - US · May 12, 2024
The Observer view on Sudan’s civil war: a humanitarian disaster we choose to ignore Ethnic cleansing and war crimes in Darfur have left 25 million people in urgent need, yet the west’s attention is elsewhere The Guardian - UK · May 11, 2024
Hoard of 17th-century coins hidden during English Civil War unearthed during kitchen renovation During a kitchen renovation, a family in England unexpectedly discovered a hoard of coins that was likely buried for safekeeping during the first English Civil War. LiveScience · May 8, 2024
Our Mothers review – moving drama about aftermath of unspeakable war violence Cezar Diaz’s sensitive and humane film looks back at one of the bloodiest periods of the Guatemalan civil war from the perspective of one damaged family The Guardian - UK · May 6, 2024
UN alarm over rightwing laws that could ‘whitewash’ Franco era in Spain Three UN experts warn proposed ‘harmony laws’ may contravene international human rights standards The Guardian - UK · May 3, 2024
France 24 · May 2, 2024 Darfur on the brink: How to stop a new bloodbath in western Sudan? How did an argument in Khartoum between two rival generals drag Sudan into civil war and push it to the brink of a repeat of the Darfur genocide of two decades ago? It has not happened yet, but the stage is certainly set in El Fasher, the west's only city…
Salon · Apr 28, 2024 The self-preservation of the media The media must use accurate and direct language to describe the democracy crisis before it is too late
The Guardian - US · Apr 28, 2024 An Unholy Traffic: how the slave trade continued through the US civil war In a new book, Robert KD Colby of the University of Mississippi shows how the Confederacy remained committed to slavery
The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2024 Inside anti-doping’s civil war: anger and suspicion spill into the open A doping case involving Chinese swimmers has brought years of pent-up feeling into the public domain – and it shows no sign of stopping
Newcastle Herald · Apr 28, 2024 Myths and frightful memories from the front History: Myths and frightful memories from the battlefront
The Guardian - UK · Apr 27, 2024 Civil War is a terrifying film, but Trump: The Sequel will be a real-life horror show If the former president regains the White House in November, America faces a more dystopian future than that being shown in cinemas
Salon · Apr 26, 2024 History of a defaced Statue of Liberty "Bring me your tired, your poor, your huddled audiences," say marketers for "Civil War" to "Cloverfield"
Reason · Apr 23, 2024 The Morningside Heights Tent City Plus: Supreme Court takes up ghost guns, Abbott takes on trans teachers, the literalism of Civil War, and more...
Broadcasting & Cable · Apr 21, 2024 Why Netflix Is Ready To ‘Fly Like an Eagle’ In our latest Next Text, we also celebrate more Steve Miller hits, laud Alex Garland’s trippy ‘Civil War,’ eulogize Participant Media, and wonder what the heck Sony and Uri Berliner are thinking
The Guardian - UK · Apr 21, 2024 We cannot turn our backs on the tragedy unfolding in Sudan Letters: Readers respond to Nesrine Malik’s article about the civil war tearing the country apart
Evening Standard · Apr 19, 2024 OPINION - Deepfake porn is a terrible threat to women and girls, but Big Tech is disgustingly casual about it As a woman, I have known the incredible power of the internet to do both good and bad. The online world has brought me and my family — scattered around the globe due to civil war — together. It also helped me in my campaign to help end FGM. But…