Mitoe Matsumoto was three years and four months old when an atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki at 11.02am on 9 August 1945. Eighty-one years later, the 84-year-old Japanese survivor says the experience
History has a way of circling back to truth. However long injustice may reign, however loudly the liars may shout, the story of Bangladesh today stands poised on that eternal hinge where
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Formation of Chabad houses in Weligama and the East Coast sparked a mass agitation across the country, paving the path for many social media pundits to depict Jewish tourists to the island
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by Our Correspondent in Jaffna The European Union Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Carmen Moreno, questioned why the Sinhalese-majority South was “anxious” about investment being directed to Northern Sri Lanka, making the remarks
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I might as well begin with two servings of fascist potatoes. The first comes from Wilhelm Reich, the great renegade psychoanalyst, who observed in 1934 that “Hitler’s gift of a sack of
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A high-level delegation representing the European Union and several of its member states visited the Chemmani mass grave excavation site on Wednesday to observe the ongoing court-supervised excavation process, following the recent
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Death is inevitable for all human beings, whether due to natural causes or unnatural causes such as accidents. However, on some occasions, people also commit suicide because of immature reactions to certain
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“He is a cardinal, isn’t he? Why does he always talk like a politician?” No one could have put it better when describing Cardinal Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don, known simply as
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Japan’s parliament approved a landmark reform of the country’s Imperial House Law on Friday, preserving the long-standing system of male-only succession to the Chrysanthemum Throne while excluding Princess Aiko, the only child
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Nearly eight decades after the end of the Second World War, millions of pages of surviving personnel records from Nazi Germany’s SA and SS have entered a new phase of public accessibility
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As technological innovation continues to reshape societies and globalization transforms economies, one of Germany’s leading newspapers has turned its attention to an unlikely source for understanding the present: Homer’s Odyssey. In an
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Israel’s decision to recognize the Armenian genocide has reignited a debate that extends far beyond the events of 1915, placing renewed attention on the relationship between historical memory and international diplomacy. More
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The fringe has occupied many roles throughout history. It has been a symbol of royal authority, a marker of aristocratic fashion, a statement of modernity, and, more recently, the focus of cultural
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The Schutzstaffel (SS) evolved from a relatively small Nazi paramilitary unit into the central institution behind the Third Reich’s racial policies and mass violence, according to historian Bastian Hein in an interview
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For centuries, the ancient Maya have been celebrated for developing one of the world’s most sophisticated systems of mathematics, astronomy and calendrical science, producing calculations that guided royal ceremonies, monumental architecture and
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When Bashar al-Assad’s government collapsed in December 2024 after 13 years of war, the world saw the aftermath of a regime accused of devastating its own country. Cities lay in ruins, mass
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