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Donald Trump takes aim at PGA Tour bosses for 'mishandling' LIV Golf split

Ahead of its season finale at Donald Trump's National course near Miami, LIV has been once again backed by the controversial former US President

Daily Mirror

Spain’s new citizenship law for Franco exiles offers hope in Latin America

Consulates inundated with inquiries, with 700,000 descendants thought to be entitled to fast-track nationality

The Guardian - UK

Syrian Ministry: Israeli Strikes Hit Near Damascus

Israeli strikes hit several positions near Damascus in the early hours of Thursday, the Syrian defense ministry said, in the third such attack in less than a week. Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes on Syrian territory since civil war broke out there in 2011, targeting government positions as…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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What’s at Stake as Lebanon Faces Presidential Vacuum?

The Lebanese presidency is set to fall vacant on Oct. 31 unless the main powerbrokers can strike a deal on the election of a successor to Michel Aoun, raising the prospect of a vacuum at a time of deep financial crisis. Reserved for a Maronite Christian in Lebanon's sectarian system,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Families in Sri Lanka yearn for answers on relatives who disappeared in civil war

(This Oct. 26 story has been corrected to fix name of official to Mahesh Katulanda in paragraph 16 and 20)

Reuters

Chad leader blames protest organizers for civilian deaths

Chad’s interim leader Mahamat Idriss Deby says those who organized the recent protests against his two-year extension of power have shown “the will to start a civil war."

The Independent UK

How 'House of the Dragon' fumbled its Season 1 finale to set up Season 2

Is it wrong to admit that I didn't feel much of anything when a certain young royal was killed off in Sunday night's Season 1 finale of "House of the Dragon"? Beyond the political and cultural ramifications of his death — a civil war between the Targaryens, years of unrest…

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Tory leadership race latest: Rishi Sunak heads for No10 as Penny Mordaunt races to meet 100 MP threshold

Sunak’s set to use ‘all the talents’ in bid to end civil war engulfing the Tories

Evening Standard

Afghanistan: with civil war on the cards, the west needs to identify a moderate ally to support

It has become axiomatic that in Afghanistan, once an armed resistance group gains a foothold in an area it becomes hard to route out. This is more so if it musters a degree of local support and is in a geographically remote region. During the past year, an anti-Taliban force…

The Conversation

The South won the psychological war

Propaganda and psychological warfare helped perpetuate false narratives about the Confederacy that still persist

Salon

America is built on a racist social contract. It’s time to tear it up and start anew

From the civil war to the January 2021 insurrection, the white nationalist response to democratic defeat has been to attempt to destroy US institutions and our national agreements. We shouldn’t tolerate this

The Guardian - US

El Salvador President Bukele’s reelection bid stokes LA immigrants’ fears of new civil war

LOS ANGELES — Digging into a bowl of chips and salsa at a Salvadoran restaurant on Vermont Avenue, Kevin Rivas shared his memories of the prison where he became intimately acquainted with pain, humiliation and impotent fury.

Los Angeles Times

When Karl Marx Made the Case for Capitalism

In barely a century, capitalism led to more productivity "than have all preceding generations together," Marx and Friedrich Engels argued.

Reason

Ethiopians in the US will be eligible to stay for 18 months due to civil war

Because of a civil war in their homeland, Ethiopians in the U.S. will be eligible to stay for 18 months and apply for work permits, U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials announced Friday.

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Georgia's GOP overhauled the state's election laws in 2021 – and critics argue the target was Black voter turnout, not election fraud

In the rash of election reform laws enacted after former President Donald Trump’s false claims of fraud during the 2020 presidential election, few were tougher than SB 202 – the Election Integrity Act – passed in 2021 in Georgia, a state long known for its history of suppressing the Black…

The Guardian - UK

‘Writers all want to be rock stars’: Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka on ghosts, war and childish dreams

Set during the Sri Lankan civil war and narrated by a dead man, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is part murder mystery, part political satire and part love story. Its author recalls the grim events that inspired it – and the editor who kept pushing him to do better

Evening Standard

Booker prize: Who is Shehan Karunatilaka and what is the Seven Moons of Maali Almeida about?

The journalist exposes the brutality of the Sri Lanka civil war, but with lightness and wit

Zenger

Camera Caught Apparitions Of Soldiers At The Civil War Battle Site In Gettysburg

Video appears to show two apparitions running across the road at the famed Civil War battle site in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

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Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker prize for Sri Lankan political satire, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Sri Lankan novelist Shehan Karunatilaka has won the 2022 Booker Prize for his second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

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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."

The Guardian - UK

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 Independent 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 Conversation

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…

Reuters

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.

The Independent UK

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

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