Australians Commemorate 103rd Anniversary of WWI Battle Australians gathered with descendants of former allies and enemies around the country, on a Turkish coast and in a French town Wednesday in dawn services to commemorate the moment when Australian and New Zealand Army Corps troops waded ashore at the Gallipoli peninsula […]
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America Must Come to Terms with Reality in Syria The joint attack carried out by the United States, United Kingdom and France on April 14 in Syria—targeting three sites related to Assad’s chemical weapons program—was a firm reaction and punishment for Assad’s continued use of chemical weapons against Syrian civilians. […]
China fears Kim is moving out of its orbit as South Korea, US talks loom China and North Korea boast an alliance forged in blood — more than 130,000 Chinese troops, including the son of Mao Zedong, died defending the North during the Korean War — but the relationship has […]
What Is an Incel? Explaining a Term Used by the Toronto Van Attack Suspect Minutes before turning his van onto a Toronto sidewalk on Monday, killing 10 people and injuring more than a dozen others, Alek Minassian wrote a post on Facebook, according to the Canadian authorities. In it, he […]
Jeff Sessions Is Serving, and Doing His Best to Ignore, Trump On an oven-hot day this month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions strode into a hotel ballroom to preach Trump-era immigration gospel to cowboy-hatted sheriffs from 31 counties near the United States’ border with Mexico. “It is only reasonable that a […]
Toronto Van Attack Suspect Expressed Anger at Women The man identified as the van driver who traumatized Toronto was a socially troubled computer studies graduate who posted a hostile message toward women on Facebook moments before his deadly rampage, according to accounts by the police and his acquaintances on Tuesday. […]
Assad to Get Free S-300 Missile Systems From Russia, Sending Strong Message to Israel Moscow will equip Syria’s armed forces with S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems, Russian officials have reportedly said, raising the prospect of fresh tensions in the region. The Kremlin, which in previous years had bowed to Israeli pressure […]
The State-Ordered Killing of Young Alfie Evans When I was nine years old, I spent almost a year of my brief life in Alder Hey hospital, Liverpool, being cured of tuberculosis. The care and treatment I got from the doctors, nurses, and stern matrons of those days was of the […]
How Des China’s Navy Compare To America’s? Every year on April 23, China’s People Liberation Army (PLA) Navy Day commemorates the founding of the service in 1949. This year’s celebrations have special significance, as a chance to display the hardware that will define the country’s future place among the world’s […]
I Was Wrong’: Armenian Leader Quits Amid Protests Ten days of demonstrations that escalated throughout Armenia forced the resignation Monday of the man who has led the country for the past decade, creating the latest crisis in a post-Soviet state trying to overcome a legacy of weak democratic rule. The […]
