Ursula Kemp was a strong-willed woman. That may have been one reason she eventually ended up on the gallows. A midwife and healer in the small English village of St Osyth, Kemp
The countdown to the August 15 Nomination Day for the forthcoming presidential election has begun and as of Thursday 10 deposits have been paid. Other candidatures too have announced themselves with the
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It is uncertain if the liberation of Bangladesh as a free and independent country would have been possible within nine months without the support of then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who
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The European Union (EU) is putting together a two-step plan to counter the possible negative impact of a universal import tax Donald Trump is planning to introduce if he gets re-elected as
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Vietnamese President To Lam has been elected as general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee, according to a press conference here on Saturday. Lam was unanimously supported at
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What will it take to end Israel’s genocide in Gaza? That’s the question confounding people of conscience all over the world since last October. After Israeli citizens, tax-paying residents of the United
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Following conservative outrage over the 2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony and, in particular, the depiction of a scene resembling that in Last Supper, former U.S. President Donald Trump labeled the spectacle a disgrace. The
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Not a month has passed since the new Labour government came to power in the UK on 5 July 2024, in a landslide victory, heralding a change after 14 years of Conservative
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Sri Lankan people will be voting to elect their next President on September 21. The Election Commission’s announcement on the election sets to rest all the speculation about political moves to postpone
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Editorial Evil reigns; hypocrites applaud; innocents perish. The nature of power, war, and hypocrisy has been starkly evident. As Sun Tzu noted in The Art of War, “All warfare is based on
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On 26 July, senior United Nations (UN) officials briefed the UN Security Council about the terrible situation in Gaza. ‘More than two million people in Gaza remain trapped in an endless nightmare
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