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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.

Radio France Internationale

‘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.

France 24

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

Evening Standard

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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

Daily Mirror

UN resolution flags Sri Lanka rights abuses, economic crisis

UN Human Rights Council renews mandate to collect and preserve evidence of atrocities during the decades-long civil war.

Al Jazeera

How to Write About Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina review – a fierce literary talent taken too soon

In this selection of essays, the prize-winning Kenyan author, who died in 2019, shines a light on his continent without cliche

The Guardian - UK

Sierra Leone journalist Clarence Roy-Macaulay dies at 85

Journalist Clarence Roy-Macaulay, who covered Sierra Leone for The Associated Press for nearly four decades including the country’s brutal civil war and the Ebola epidemic that killed thousands there, has died

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Chinese civil war refugee makes love for Taiwan flag a dining experience

Days away from Taiwan's National Day, a long line of people snakes out of Chang Lao-wang's restaurant, where the Chinese civil war refugee displays his ardent love for Taiwan's flag while serving up Yunnan rice noodles to the lunchtime crowd.

Reuters

The Myanmar exiles in Thailand’s revolutionary tea shop

As Myanmar spirals deeper into civil war, a tea shop along the country’s border with Thailand has become a haven for those who have fled the military junta, writes Rebecca Tan

The Independent UK

James Cleverly hits out at fellow ministers as Tory civil war rages on

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has hit out at fellow ministers for taking a personal stance on Government policy as the Tory civil war raged on.

Evening Standard

Yemen's warring sides fail to extend UN-backed ceasefire

Yemen's warring sides have failed to reach an agreement to extend a nationwide ceasefire, the UN said Sunday, endangering the longest lull in fighting since the country's bloody civil war began.

France 24

The tough road to democratisation

Taiwan has been hailed as a textbook example of a successful transition to democracy. At the end of the civil war in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Kuomintang (KMT), lost to Mao Zedong's communist forces and fled to the island. After almost four decades of martial law until 1987,…

Bangkok Post

New cantata breathes life into history of the Irish civil war

Diaries and letters of the time, together with book by Observer war correspondent Ed Vulliamy, inspired music for orchestra and vocalists.

The Guardian - UK

PGA Tour 'countersues LIV' as legal battle takes dramatic twist amid golf's civil war

The PGA Tour and LIV Golf have been embroiled in a battle in recent months following the latter's inception, and now the American-based tour have reportedly 'countersued' the Saudi-backed series

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The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Rare sedition charge at center of Jan. 6 trial

The founder of the Oath Keepers and four associates are on trial in the U.S. Capitol attack on charges that include seditious conspiracy — a rare Civil War-era charge that strikes to the heart of what prosecutors say happened that day

The Independent UK

Hold fire: Re-enactors fear being targeted by NY gun law

Some historical battle re-enactors in New York are holding their musket fire because of worries over the state’s new gun rules

Belfast Live

Greg Norman goes after 'hypocrite' Rory McIlroy on Piers Morgan Uncensored show

LIV boss Greg Norman hit back at McIlroy's prolonged criticism of the Saudi-backed series as well as the "hypocrisy" of golf's civil war

Salon

Texas GOP pushes "patriotic education"

Historians are not wild about the Texas GOP's view of state history

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The Texas Tribune

1836 Project promotes sanitized version of Texas history, experts say

The Texas Tribune reviewed the 15-page document, which will be handed out to new drivers, and asked historians to comment on how accurately and thoroughly it chronicles the state’s history.

WEKU

Marking 75 years, the CIA opens a new museum and launches a podcast

The CIA rarely seeks publicity, but has opened up a bit as it marks its anniversary. Director William Burns told the inaugural podcast that he wanted to "demystify" some of the agency's work.

The Independent UK

GOP quiet as Arizona Democrats condemn abortion ruling

Arizona Democrats are vowing to fight for women’s rights after a court reinstated a law first enacted during the Civil War that bans abortion in nearly all circumstances

France 24

Inside Myanmar's enduring resistance movement

On February 1, 2021, the Burmese army retook power, brutally ending a decades-long period of democracy. In the space of a few months, thousands of civilians were killed and thousands more thrown into prison. A shadow government was quickly formed, but armed resistance also got organised in a country cut…

Bangkok Post

A false new world of empty promises

The setting is a house on stilts located in a Myanmar military base in the middle of what until then had been known as the civil war's black area. The time was April 2012. The scene was Kyauk Kyi in Myanmar's Bago Region which is basically a free-fire zone for…

Al Jazeera

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.

Reuters

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.

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