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Cultural heritage is under attack in the United States. The National Historic Preservation Act’s Section 106 regulation, which balances economic development and historic preservation, has been rewritten to leave historic places in
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The Indian Grant Housing Programme, implemented with the aim of providing permanent shelter and land ownership to the estate community in Sri Lanka who have lived extremely difficult and challenging lives in
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Ever since Hugo Chávez became Venezuela’s president in 1999 and initiated the Bolivarian Revolution, the country has been under siege by the US. The aggression escalated with the kidnapping of its lawful
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Sri Lankan textile-led fashion designer Ruwanthi Gajadeera presented an original cyanotype to King Charles III on Wednesday at a garden party marking the 125th anniversary of the Victoria League for Commonwealth Friendship.
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