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Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins 2022 Booker Prize

The prestigious award was given to The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which the judges hailed as "a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war."

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Shehan Karunatilaka’s Booker winner is narrated by a dead man - but it’s a novel full of life

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, about a photographer during Sri Lanka’s civil war, has tremendous comic energy

The Guardian - UK

Booker Prize 2022 winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is compelling about conflict – but not a simple read

Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won this year’s £50,000 prize for a metaphysical thriller about the horrors of civil war. It’s easy to see why the judges liked it, writes Martin Chilton, but a shame to see Claire Keegan miss out for her moving novella

The Independent UK

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How a photograph uncovered my grandmother's republican activism during the Irish revolution

The memories I have of my paternal grandmother, Máirín Beaumont, mostly involve sweets. She lived with me in Dublin until her death in 1972, when I was five. Our house, a long bungalow by the sea, was divided in two with my grandmother living in the top end and my…

The Conversation

Russia faces turmoil, says former diplomat who resigned over war

President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has set Russia on a path towards turmoil that could unseat the Kremlin chief, trigger civil war or even break the country apart, said a Russian diplomat who resigned over the war.

Reuters

Salvador court orders arrests in Dutch journalist killings

A Salvadoran judge has ordered the provisional arrest of several retired high-ranking members of the armed forces accused of having participated in the killings of four Dutch journalists in 1982 while they were covering the Central American nation’s civil war

The Independent UK

Exclusive-Ethiopia debt relief delay partly due to civil war: state finance minister

Delays in restructuring Ethiopia's debt due to the failings of a new global mechanism for resolving debt problems are "disappointing," the east African nation's state finance minister said on Saturday, adding that he planned to raise it with the head of the IMF later in the day.

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'Where is humanity?' ask the helpless doctors of Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region

Civil war has blockaded the country's northern region and decimated a hospital system that serves nearly 7 million people. Without basic supplies, power and medicine, thousands are needlessly dying.

WEKU

The January 6 panel makes it clear: American democracy needs accountability

Slavery and civil war tested us 160 years ago. Again, we are being tested. Midterms are less than a month away

The Guardian - US

Tigray's healthcare workers haven't been paid in over a year -- and bear the brunt of the war

Tragic stories of suffering and death have emerged from Tigray since 2020, when civil war erupted between the central Ethiopian government and the regional Tigrayan government.

The Conversation

Trump, Biden and consequences

For Republicans in D.C., endless division is fun and games. But that isn't what most Americans really want

Salon

Somalia: Puntland state port is getting a revamp - this is key to its future

The port city of Bosaso, located at the north-eastern corner of Somalia, provides a striking example of the interlinkage between security and infrastructure. The city benefited from the civil war that ravaged the southern parts of Somalia in the 1990s and 2000s. It developed into a booming trade centre. But…

The Conversation

Greg Norman praises Jon Rahm for "classy" speech praising LIV Golf winner amid civil war

Jon Rahm sent his congratulations to fellow Spaniard Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra following the rookie's LIV Golf win in Bangkok, earning the plaudits of Greg Norman

Daily Mirror

Spanish fascist’s family to exhume remains from Valley of the Fallen

Family of José Antonio Primo de Rivera act before new legislation designed to honour civil war and dictatorship victims takes effect

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Spain rights group seeks probe of civil war lyrics at far-right rally

A group representing victims of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's regime has asked prosecutors to investigate a song performed at a rally by the far-right Vox party for allegedly calling for a return to civil war.

The Independent UK

Paris trial opens over crimes against humanity in Liberia

A former Liberian rebel is going on trial in Paris on charges of crimes against humanity, torture and acts of barbarism during the West African country’s civil war in the 1990s

Salon

Gavin McInnes still tied to Proud Boys

McInnes headed to Las Vegas weeks ago for a meet-up and attempted to put down a civil war in the organization

The Guardian - UK

Virtual Spanish civil war museum aims to cut through political divide

Online history centre launches against backdrop of renewed debate over the conflict’s legacy

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Former Liberian rebel charged with war crimes awaits Paris trial

Kunti Kamara charged with torture, cannibalism and complicity in crimes against humanity during civil war between 1989 and 1996

Daily Mirror

Cabinet to 'ambush' Liz Truss over benefit cut that'd put 200,000 kids in poverty

The PM is being warned she won't get the cut through as Tories plot with Labour in a civil war - and an ex-Sainsbury's boss warns the crisis is the worst since the 1970s

ABC News

Chinese civil war refugee proclaims love for Taiwan flag amid rising tensions ahead of Taiwan National Day

Ahead of Taiwan's national day, Chang Lao-wang hangs 30,000 Taiwanese flags around his "National Flag House" in the northern city of Taoyuan.

Radio France Internationale

Survivors sue Liberian government over failure to track down civil war killers

Survivors of a massacre during Liberia’s civil war have sued the government in Monrovia for its failure to address wartime atrocities. The administration of President George Weah is under pressure to implement a report setting guidelines on bringing wartime criminals to justice.

France 24

‘Important for the victims’: Former Liberian rebel leader Kamara faces trial in Paris

The trial of former Liberian rebel leader Kunti Kamara opens on Monday in Paris. French authorities are prosecuting Kamara, who stands accused of rape, murder and torture during the country’s first civil war in the 1990s, under universal jurisdiction.

Evening Standard

Liz Truss facing Tory civil war as party in ‘a horrible mess’, reports state

The party has been divided after Ms Truss was forced into a humiliating U-turn over her plans to scrap the top earners’ 45p income tax rate

Daily Mirror

The heartbreaking story behind Will Smith's 'Whipped Peter' role in film Emancipation

Will Smith stars in the new Apple TV+ film Emancipation, which recounts the story of a man named Peter, who provided visual proof of the brutality of slavery in a widely circulated photograph

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