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To understand what Xi Jinping's concentration of power really means, we must turn to history

After he secured an unprecedented third term as the leader of both Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the country’s Central Military late last month, Xi Jinping led the seven-member Standing Committee of the Politburo on a visit to Yan’an. This is the CCP’s sacred revolutionary base from where the first-generation…

The Conversation

France sentences Liberian rebel to life in prison for war crimes

Rights groups on Thursday lauded the conviction in Paris of former Liberian rebel commander Kunti Kamara, who was sentenced to life in prison for atrocities committed during the West African country's first civil war.

Reuters

Spain exhumes body of general linked to Garcia Lorca's execution

Spain exhumed on Thursday the body of a Francoist general who is believed to have ordered the execution of the poet Federico Garcia Lorca in 1936 at the start of the Spanish civil war.

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Captagon connection: How Syria became a narco state

BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon: A decade of appalling civil war has left Syria fragmented and in ruins but one thing crosses every front line: a drug called captagon.

Bangkok Post

Captagon connection: how Syria became a narco state

Bekaa Valley (Lebanon) (AFP) - A decade of appalling civil war has left Syria fragmented and in ruins but one thing crosses every front line: a drug called captagon.

AFP

Boogaloo Boys member faces federal charges following election-related investigation

DETROIT — Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a prominent member of the far-right anti-government extremist Boogaloo movement with drug and gun-related crimes following a counterterrorism investigation focused on concerns about attacks on politicians and plans to disrupt the Nov. 8 midterm elections.

Tribune News Service

Paris court to deliver verdict in trial of Liberian ex-rebel

A Paris court will deliver a verdict in the trial of a former Liberian rebel on charges of torture, acts of barbarism and complicity in crimes against humanity during the country’s civil war

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However bad things are now in America, there’s a real chance they will get much worse

The assault on the husband of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — and the reaction to it — could be another step toward a new US civil war.

Crikey

However bad things are now in America, there’s a real chance they’ll get worse

The assault on the husband of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — and the reaction to it — could be another step toward a new US civil war.

Crikey

Civil War-era Relics Unearthed On Dried Banks Of Mississippi River

What is typically an island jutting out of the murky river waters have been submerged for an unknown amount of time.

Zenger

Family of financier of last U.S. slave ship breaks silence

Descendants of the Alabama man responsible for illegally bringing 110 African captives to America aboard the last U.S. slave ship have broken generations of public silence

The Independent UK

Donald Trump takes aim at PGA Tour bosses for 'mishandling' LIV Golf split

Ahead of its season finale at Donald Trump's National course near Miami, LIV has been once again backed by the controversial former US President

Daily Mirror

Spain’s new citizenship law for Franco exiles offers hope in Latin America

Consulates inundated with inquiries, with 700,000 descendants thought to be entitled to fast-track nationality

The Guardian - UK

Syrian Ministry: Israeli Strikes Hit Near Damascus

Israeli strikes hit several positions near Damascus in the early hours of Thursday, the Syrian defense ministry said, in the third such attack in less than a week. Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes on Syrian territory since civil war broke out there in 2011, targeting government positions as…

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What’s at Stake as Lebanon Faces Presidential Vacuum?

The Lebanese presidency is set to fall vacant on Oct. 31 unless the main powerbrokers can strike a deal on the election of a successor to Michel Aoun, raising the prospect of a vacuum at a time of deep financial crisis. Reserved for a Maronite Christian in Lebanon's sectarian system,…

Reuters

Families in Sri Lanka yearn for answers on relatives who disappeared in civil war

(This Oct. 26 story has been corrected to fix name of official to Mahesh Katulanda in paragraph 16 and 20)

The Independent UK

Chad leader blames protest organizers for civilian deaths

Chad’s interim leader Mahamat Idriss Deby says those who organized the recent protests against his two-year extension of power have shown “the will to start a civil war."

Los Angeles Times

How 'House of the Dragon' fumbled its Season 1 finale to set up Season 2

Is it wrong to admit that I didn't feel much of anything when a certain young royal was killed off in Sunday night's Season 1 finale of "House of the Dragon"? Beyond the political and cultural ramifications of his death — a civil war between the Targaryens, years of unrest…

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Evening Standard

Tory leadership race latest: Rishi Sunak heads for No10 as Penny Mordaunt races to meet 100 MP threshold

Sunak’s set to use ‘all the talents’ in bid to end civil war engulfing the Tories

The Conversation

Afghanistan: with civil war on the cards, the west needs to identify a moderate ally to support

It has become axiomatic that in Afghanistan, once an armed resistance group gains a foothold in an area it becomes hard to route out. This is more so if it musters a degree of local support and is in a geographically remote region. During the past year, an anti-Taliban force…

Salon

The South won the psychological war

Propaganda and psychological warfare helped perpetuate false narratives about the Confederacy that still persist

The Guardian - US

America is built on a racist social contract. It’s time to tear it up and start anew

From the civil war to the January 2021 insurrection, the white nationalist response to democratic defeat has been to attempt to destroy US institutions and our national agreements. We shouldn’t tolerate this

Los Angeles Times

El Salvador President Bukele’s reelection bid stokes LA immigrants’ fears of new civil war

LOS ANGELES — Digging into a bowl of chips and salsa at a Salvadoran restaurant on Vermont Avenue, Kevin Rivas shared his memories of the prison where he became intimately acquainted with pain, humiliation and impotent fury.

Reason

When Karl Marx Made the Case for Capitalism

In barely a century, capitalism led to more productivity "than have all preceding generations together," Marx and Friedrich Engels argued.

Los Angeles Times

Ethiopians in the US will be eligible to stay for 18 months due to civil war

Because of a civil war in their homeland, Ethiopians in the U.S. will be eligible to stay for 18 months and apply for work permits, U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials announced Friday.

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