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
Russia staged a noticeably restrained Victory Day parade on Saturday in Moscow, reflecting the mounting pressures of its prolonged war in Ukraine and heightened security concerns over potential attacks. The annual May
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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 few weeks ago, while I was in Bandung, Indonesia, a man who uses a wheelchair told me that the total number of people living with disabilities has been calculated by the
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Ted Turner, the volatile media visionary who transformed global broadcasting by creating the world’s first 24-hour news channel and turning CNN into a geopolitical force, has died at the age of 87.
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Hannah Arendt raises the question of solidarity against the backdrop of a broken world. In the wake of totalitarianism, she insists, the Western tradition itself is irretrievably broken. That tradition began, as
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A forthcoming documentary titled Diana: The Unheard Truth is already generating intense international attention despite its release being scheduled for 31 August 2027. The timing coincides with the 30th anniversary of the
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Sri Lanka has lost one of its most courageous and enduring voices for human rights and social justice. Suriya Wickramasinghe, Secretary of the Civil Rights Movement of Sri Lanka (CRM), former Chair
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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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During some of the worst days of the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran, I was talking to friends who were in the civilian areas being bombed. Some of them are scholars, others
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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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When one person hurts another, common sense dictates that the person should apologize and, preferably, make amends for the harm they may have caused. Apologize, make amends, and ensure it won’t happen
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Fifty-one years ago, Hannah Arendt gave what would be her final public speech at Faneuil Hall. The occasion was America’s 200th birthday, but Arendt refused the framing: she had come, she said,
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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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