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A little white pill, Captagon, gives Syria's Assad a strong tool in winning over Arab states

Western governments have been frustrated by the red carpet treatment Arab countries have been giving Syria’s president, fearing their reconciliation with the pariah state will undermine efforts to push a solution to its long-running civil war

The Independent UK

Dr. Francisco Martinez, served in Spanish Civil War before becoming a doctor to Spanish-speaking residents in Humboldt Park, dies at 105

Some poor patients would pay Dr. Martinez in cheese they had received as federal food benefits.

Chicago Sun-Times

Rory McIlroy, the ‘sacrificial lamb’ left counting the cost of golf’s merger

COMMENT: McIlroy’s role as the face of the PGA Tour during golf’s civil war harmed his hopes of adding to his legacy on the course, Jack Rathborn argues

The Independent UK

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PGA Tour-LIV shock merger: winners and losers from golf’s unification

It was an announcement that shocked the world of golf. After a bitter civil war, the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf series revealed yesterday that a “landmark agreement” had been reached to “unify the game of golf” on a “global basis”.

The Week

PGA and LIV Golf news LIVE: Golf’s civil war ends after stunning merger announcement

The rival golf tours announced a shock merger to end the lawsuits and recriminations between the sides

The Independent UK

Bitter rivals LIV Golf and PGA Tour announce shock merger to end golf’s civil war

Golf’s civil war that has been raging for 18 months looks set to come to a stunning end

The Independent UK

Phil Mickelson wastes no time responding to PGA Tour and LIV Golf announcing merge

The PGA Tour has sensationally agreed to merge with the Saudi Arabia funder LIV Golf series, ending all legal proceedings between the two sides of golf's civil war, and Phil Mickelson is delighted

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‘I want to be part of the rebirth’: the artists bringing creation out of Beirut’s chaos

Decades of civil war and economic meltdowns left Lebanon’s people struggling for hope – but the country’s creatives are fighting back

The Guardian - UK

US Army Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas' journey from enslaver to Union officer to civil rights defender

As Southern states tear down Confederate statues and the military removes the names of Confederate generals from bases, the issue of how to remember the Civil War is increasingly prominent.

The Conversation

South Sudan struggles to clear mines after decades of war as people start returning home

Many South Sudanese are returning to areas riddled with mines left from decades of conflict as they trickle back into the country after a peace deal was signed in 2018 to end a five-year civil war that killed nearly 400,000 people and displaced millions

The Independent UK

Mayor Johnson invokes ‘soul’ of Chicago’s ancestors at Memorial Day ceremony

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle reflected on the complicated story of Maj. Gen. John A. Logan, the Illinois native and Civil War general who founded the holiday. Monday’s event was at Logan’s statue in Grant Park.

Chicago Sun-Times

Frederick Douglass's Classic 1871 Decoration Day Speech

Memorial Day originated as Decoration Day, an occasion to honor the fallen soldiers of the Civil War. Douglass' 1871 speech may be the greatest-ever address associated with this occasion.

Reason

Memorial Day US: Why and how Americans observe the federal holiday with parades and tributes

Born out of the horror of the US Civil War where an eye-watering 2 per cent of the entire fledgling country died, Memorial Day is marked in an attempt to honour those killed

Daily Mirror

What really started the American Civil War?

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

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The Independent UK

From the Civil War to today’s mattress sales, Memorial Day is full of contradiction

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members

Chicago Sun-Times

Enjoy the barbecue, but don’t forget our lost heroes this Memorial Day

After 22 years working at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, I’m only starting to understand and appreciate the true meaning of this day, the director of Hines VA Hospital writes.

The Independent UK

Thousands of exhausted South Sudanese head home, fleeing brutal conflict

Tens of thousands of exhausted people are heading home to the world’s newest country, South Sudan, from a civil war in neighboring Sudan

The Independent UK

From the Civil War to today's mattress sales, Memorial Day is full of contradiction

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members

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France 24

South Sudan's capital Juba clings to hope of peace

Back in 2018, the signing of a peace deal between South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and his longtime rival Riek Machar created hope and optimism. The people of South Sudan, an independent nation since 2011, were emerging from a brutal civil war. However, five years later, this peace agreement is…

The Guardian - UK

Yemen: beauty on the edge of war – photo essay

The photographs of Mattia Velati tell a story of Yemen under the internationally recognised government and the different militias and tribes that control the southern part of the country in the civil war against Houthi forces that has ravaged the country since the end of 2014

The Guardian - UK

Kissinger at 100: The ‘bloody, dreadful, filthy’ Angolan civil war – in pictures

The Guardian visited Angola in 2001 as the long civil war – aggravated by the interventions of Henry Kissinger – between Unita and the government wound down. The images show how the conflict affected the people and landscape around the city of Kuito in Bie province

Radio France Internationale

French foreign minister Colonna calls for Syria's al-Assad to be put on trial

France's Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna on Tuesday called for the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to be prosecuted for ordering the use of chemical weapons and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Syrians during the country's civil war.

The Conversation

Khartoum: the creation and the destruction of a modern African city

Khartoum is – was – a city that did not know war or fighting in its recent history. Now it is in the grip of a civil war between rival military forces.

France 24

Syria's Assad 'creates a problem but presents himself as a solution,' analyst says

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been shunned internationally for over a decade, due to the brutal repression of anti-government protesters and the use of chemical weapons by his regime during the country's civil war. Despite numerous reported atrocities, the leader has clung onto power with the sole support of two…

The Guardian - UK

Bashar al-Assad tells Arab League he hopes his return marks new era of peace

Assad is attending summit in Saudi Arabia after 12 years outside bloc over Syrian civil war

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