UN raises funds to salvage oil tanker ‘time bomb’ off Yemen coast The decaying 45-year-old FSO Safer has not been serviced since Yemen plunged into civil war in 2014. Al Jazeera · Sep 22, 2022
Deadly childhood diseases rise in Ethiopia's Tigray as war hampers vaccinations Deadly diseases such as measles, tetanus and whooping cough are on the rise in Ethiopia's Tigray region after vaccination rates plunged during the civil war that broke out nearly two years ago, doctors and regional health officials say. Reuters · Sep 20, 2022
Lebanon’s Past Echoes Its Grim Present in Exhibition In a war-scarred Beirut heritage house turned museum, archives of Lebanon's troubled past fuse with artistic depictions of its grim present to portray a country seemingly in perpetual turmoil. Newspaper clippings, film negatives and diary entries from the years before Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war tell a story of government corruption,… Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 20, 2022
Ken Burns: ‘We’re in perhaps the most difficult crisis in the history of America’ In a new docuseries, the film-maker looks back to the Holocaust and US apathy to make links toward where we are right now The Guardian - US · Sep 19, 2022
Locked Up: The prison labor that built business empires In a joint investigation, reporters from the Associated Press and Reveal at the Center for Investigative Reporting spent months unearthing the history of convict leasing that built business empires The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2022
How the U.S. Paid for the Civil War Lincoln's wartime governance had dire, and longstanding, economic consequences. Reason · Sep 17, 2022
In Yemen, Queen’s death recalls memories of colonial past There are few remaining reminders that the Yemeni port city of Aden was once a British colony The Independent UK · Sep 17, 2022
Charles is the third King Charles. These were the ones before him King Charles III shares a name with two kings whose rules were marked by bloodshed and scandal. Here's a brief guide to the reigns of those who came before him. ABC News · Sep 14, 2022
House of the Dragon: how virtual production is helping actors say goodbye to green screens Based on George R.R. Martin’s book Fire and Blood, House of the Dragon is set roughly 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones. A much-anticipated prequel, the series focuses on the the House Targaryen (the House of the Dragon), the family from which Game of Thrones’ Daenerys Targaryen… The Conversation · Sep 13, 2022
LIV wag takes aim at partners of PGA Tour stars as golf civil war spills over The LIV Golf saga has continued but this time away from the playing quota after Pat Perez’s wife Ashley launched an attack on the partners of PGA Tour stars Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele. Daily Mirror · Sep 12, 2022
Central African Republic: Under Russian influence Since 2018, mercenaries from Russia's Wagner Group, an effective secret army of the Kremlin, have been active in Central African Republic. They protect the impoverished country's regime in exchange for valuable mineral resources and deploy a massive propaganda campaign to cover up the massacres, rapes and torture they are accused… France 24 · Sep 10, 2022
Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston ‘can’t get head around’ LIV rebels playing BMW PGA Championship It's now 'Beef' by name, but barbecued beef by nature for the injured Andrew Johnston, who has cooked up a new venture whilst golf's civil war has raged on without him Daily Mirror · Sep 9, 2022
India faces threat of civil war, says Ashok Gehlot Rajasthan Chief Minister makes fresh pitch for Rahul Gandhi to take over as Congress president The Hindu · Sep 7, 2022
Rory McIlroy claims he no longer has relationship with Ryder Cup LIV rebels Rory McIlroy admitted friendships had been ruined by defections to LIV Golf as European Tour Group’s chief executive, Keith Pelley, hit out at ‘the LIV propaganda machine’ The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2022
The National (Scotland) · Sep 7, 2022 Defending champion Horschel highlights LIV rebels’ profiteering Let us get one thing clear. Golf’s so-called civil war is actually quite civilised. Here at leafy Wentworth, loyalists of the established tours…
The Guardian - UK · Sep 6, 2022 No doomsday bunker, not a single gun – if the US really is heading for civil war, I’m stuffed The super-rich are preparing to ride out the apocalypse by their underground swimming pools. Ordinary Americans have bought another 20m firearms. And me? I have a broom and a butter knife
Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 6, 2022 Who Marginalized Role of Premiership in Lebanon after Rafik Hariri’s Assassination? The 1989 Taif Accord that ended the Lebanese civil war (1975-90) transformed the position of prime minister into an effective partner in power. The position was consolidated with the arrival of Rafik Hariri to the post in late 1992. The businessman managed to invest his extensive Arab and international relations…
The Conversation · Sep 5, 2022 Uncivil wars? Political lies are far more dangerous than Twitter pile-ons As Trump supporters call for civil war and American institutions of law and government teeter on the brink, threatening to spread extremist influences throughout the democratic world, Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens propose that the problem underlying this crisis is the loss of civility itself.
Daily Mirror · Sep 5, 2022 Inside abandoned funeral home untouched for years still holding human remains A photographer has captured some disturbing pictures that reveal a dark history of Century Funeral Home- from chemicals to human remains this long abandoned home has some harrowing artefacts
Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 5, 2022 Historical documents offer glimpses of the Underground Railroad in Chicago Chicago had been a destination for freedom seekers. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 changed things, making Canada a safer final destination and Chicago largely a way station on the Underground Railroad.
The Independent UK · Sep 5, 2022 Sri Lanka refuses international human rights investigation Sri Lanka says it will not accept any international investigation imposed by the U.N. Human Rights Council into alleged rights abuses during the country’s long civil war
The Guardian - US · Sep 5, 2022 ‘Confederates were traitors’: Ty Seidule on West Point, race and American history The discovery of a plaque showing a member of the Ku Klux Klan at the US military academy made headlines. One member of the commission which recommended its removal is a historian of the US army and the lost cause myth
Daily Mirror · Sep 4, 2022 Paul McGinley slammed by fellow pro for LIV Golf comments as sport's civil war deepens Former Team Europe Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley has been slammed by Spanish star Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano over comments regarding how DP World Tour players feel about LIV Golf stars
WEKU · Sep 4, 2022 Historians advise the president. The problem? The scholars were all white. In early August the White House invited an all-white group of historians to talk about threats to American democracy.
Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 3, 2022 How Sistani Silently Halted Iraq’s Slide Back into War When a pronouncement by a religious scholar in Iran drove Iraq to the brink of civil war last week, there was only one man who could stop it: 92-year-old Iraqi Shiite religious authority Ali al-Sistani, who proved once again he is the most powerful man in his country. Sistani said…