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Wagner chief Prigozhin reportedly killed, but has Putin cooked his own goose?

Perhaps the most unexpected thing about the plane crash that reportedly killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, the bombastic head of Russia’s infamous Wagner group, is that it happened a full two months after he brought Russia to what President Vladimir Putin warned at the time was the brink of civil war.

The Conversation

Georgia indictment and post-Civil War history make it clear: Trump's actions have already disqualified him from the presidency

After three indictments of former President Donald Trump, the fourth one in Georgia came not as a surprise but as a powerful exposition of the scope of Trump’s efforts to remain in power despite losing the 2020 presidential election.

The Conversation

Sudan civil war spiralling out of control, says UN as more than 1 million flee

The United Nations has voiced grave concerns over the civil war in Sudan saying it is "spiralling out of control", as more than a million people have left the country to neighbouring nations since April as fighting between two warring factions has turned the nation into a war zone, according…

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Sudan’s top army general accuses rival paramilitary of war crimes in televised speech

The head of Sudan’s military has accused the rival paramilitary force of committing war crimes as all-out civil war threatens to engulf the northeast African country

The Independent UK

Thousands of pieces of unexploded ordnance found buried in ground at Cambodian school

Cambodian authorities have temporarily closed a high school where thousands of pieces of unexploded ordnance from the country’s nearly three decades of civil war have been unearthed

The Independent UK

Canfranc Estación: staying in the ‘Titanic of the mountains’

Canfranc International railway station in the Spanish Pyrenees inspires “almost instant comparisons” with the fictional Grand Budapest Hotel in Wes Anderson’s film of that name, said Victoria Brzezinski in The Times. “Ten times bigger than London’s St Pancras”, this “splendid beaux-arts construction surrounded by snow-capped peaks”, was the second-largest railway station in Europe when…

The Week

Pro-Trump Michigan false elector said conspiracy charges could trigger ‘civil war’

GOP officials have pleaded not guilty to state charges around scheme

The Independent UK

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New Article on Insurrection, Rebellion, and Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment

Michael Stokes Paulsen and I have a new draft article: The Sweep and Force of Section Three, that is forthcoming in the Pennsylvania Law Review. Here is the abstract: Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment forbids holding office by former office holders who then participate in insurrection or rebellion. Because…

Reason

Sri Lankan president vows to strengthen provincial governments to share power with Tamil minority

Sri Lanka’s president says he will strengthen provincial governments to meet long-standing demands for self-rule from the ethnic Tamil minority, an issue that led to a bloody quarter-century civil war in the island nation

The Independent UK

The most controversial Spider-Man stories of all time

Marvel is promising a sequel to Spider-Man's "most notorious" story - and these are the ones that most qualify

GamesRadar

Niger: with a key deadline passed, Nigeria must take decisive steps to prevent a civil war in its neighborhood

The deadline set by the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) for the elected president of Niger, Mohamed Bazoum – who was deposed in a coup on July 26 – to be reinstated to office has passed. West Africa is now bracing to see how Ecowas, which has threatened…

The Conversation

A brief history of the Ku Klux Klan Acts: 1870s laws to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, now being used against Trump

In the indictment against former President Donald Trump and his role in the Jan. 6 violent attack against the U.S. Capitol, special prosecutor Jack Smith charged the former president with violating four different federal laws – and Trump pleaded not guilty to each one of them on Aug. 3, 2023.

The Conversation

At Yemeni prosthetics clinic, the patients keep coming even though the war has slowed

The civil war in Yemen seems to be cooling off, but its deadly legacy of land mines will be felt for decades. At a prosthetics clinic near the the front line, children bear a disproportionate burden.

WEKU

America is on the brink of another civil war, this one fuelled by Donald Trump

The indictment of former United States president Donald Trump on charges he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election is the most serious test of America’s experiment in constitutional government since December 1860, when the state of South Carolina seceded from the Union and set in motion…

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The charges facing Trump in the Jan. 6 investigation, explained

Trump was charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, witness tampering, conspiracy against the rights of citizens, and obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding.

The Independent UK

Why Trump is charged under a civil rights law used to prosecute KKK terror

Trump is accused of conspiring to undermine Americans’ right to vote – a charge with roots in the Civil War’s aftermath but used to more broadly prosecute voter fraud conspiracies and election interference, Alex Woodward reports

Zenger

Israeli PM Netanyahu: Judicial Reform Debate Won’t Lead To Violence

Netanyahu assures no civil war amid judicial reform debate in Israel

Al Jazeera

Timeline: A history of ECOWAS military interventions in three decades

The West African bloc has a history of successful military interventions to restore constitutional order in the region.

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The Independent UK

Spain identifies 212 German, Austrian and Dutch fighters who went missing during Spanish Civil War

Spain’s government researchers say they've identified hundreds of foreign fighters who disappeared in the region during the Spanish Civil War

The Guardian - UK

Will Israel escape civil war? Even if it does, it will surely lose its soul

The new law suffocating judicial independence will bring autocratic rule to Israeli citizens as well as Palestinians

Zenger

Debate Over Judicial Reform In Israel Raises Concerns Of Societal Division And Potential Civil War

Israel's Judicial Reform Sparks Divisions and Fears of Societal Crisis

Salon

Has Trump unleashed a new civil war?

This struggle isn't violent, so far — but if states break away from federal control, the United States is finished

Al Jazeera

What are Black July massacres that triggered Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war?

Long-simmering ethnic tensions between mainly Buddhist Sinhalese and largely Hindu Tamil minority led to the civil war.

The Conversation

Has Russia contained the Prigozhin threat? Its long history of managing violent mercenaries suggests so

A month on since pundits declared the imminent start of a new Russian civil war, we’re still waiting. Moreover, we still know very little about what went on when Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a brief rebellion against the Kremlin.

The Guardian - US

Kentucky man finds ‘hoard’ of civil war gold coins worth millions in cornfield

The 800 gold coins date back from 1840 to 1863 and may have been buried as a result of state’s declaration of neutrality during war

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