On the morning of 30 July 1929, a man carrying a small axe entered the upper terrace of the Sri Maha Bodhi in Anuradhapura and struck one of its principal branches several
In an age marked by democratic erosion in multiple regions of the world, a historical and moral thread runs through acts of resistance that are not always loud or violent, but often
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When we look at the military landscape today we cannot help but be impressed by the significance of drones on the battlefield. Drones represent an unexpected revolution in military affairs that has
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A special team was formed in late 1984 under the leadership of Ragama Some Somasiri to raise funds for the JVP. According to the orders of the team, they broke into major
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Spain’s Congress has declassified a collection of documents related to the attempted coup of 23 February 1981, known as the 23-F, in a move that paradoxically reveals little that is truly new
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Forty years ago, a routine diving expedition off the remote Japanese island of Yonaguni turned into one of the most controversial archaeological debates in modern history. What diver Kihachiro Aratake discovered beneath
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Nearly four decades after the explosion that defined the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the ruins of Reactor No 4 at the Chernobyl power plant have вновь become a source of global тревога.
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Ancient oceans may have been dominated not only by fearsome marine reptiles but also by colossal octopus-like creatures, according to new research published in Nature. Scientists studying fossilized jaws have identified extinct
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Every April 24, the Armenian world pauses in collective remembrance of a catastrophe that still defines its identity and politics. The date marks the beginning of the genocide carried out by the
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Race is a social construct used to categorize humans into groups based on shared physical traits (such as skin colour, hair texture, or facial features) or ancestry. Modern science views race as
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A Neanderthal infant skeleton described in research highlighted by New Scientist has revealed that our ancient relatives may have started life significantly larger and grown far more rapidly than modern human babies.
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At four in the morning, tragedy in Chernobyl has a way of announcing itself. It did so on April 26, 1986, when a telephone rang in the home of Olexander Zelentsov, calling
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Thamirabarani River (Sanskrit: Tāmraparṇī), is located in the Thoothukudi and Tirunelveli districts of Tamil Nadu, South India. It is on the southeast coast of India, and it sits directly across the Gulf of Mannar from the north-western coast of
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On 20 January 2026, the UK government formally approved plans for a new Chinese mega-embassy at Royal Mint Court in the City of London, ending months of intense political debate, security reviews,
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Sixty-five years after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, newly declassified documents have shed stark new light on one of the most consequential intelligence failures of the Cold War, revealing how close
More Newly declassified archival material has revealed a little-known and deeply controversial episode in the history of Israel’s pre-state underground movements, detailing efforts by the militant group Lehi to establish contact with Nazi
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