The Hamidian massacres also called the Armenian massacres, were massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the mid-1890s. Estimated casualties ranged from 100,000 to 300,000, resulting … More
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Shireen Abu Akleh: The Extrajudicial Killing
On 11 May 2022, Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh and a group of five other journalists arrived at Balat … More
What Ethiopia and Tigray need for peace
On August 24, 2022, the wheels fell off an uneasy nine-month truce between the Ethiopian and Tigrayan governments, with an enormous military assault across dozens of … More
In Chile’s desert lie vast reserves of lithium
In the middle of the desert in northern Chile, massive pools of Caribbean blue water sit next to what appear … More
nations’ leaders gather at UN
Facing a complex set of challenges that try humanity as never before, world leaders convene at the United Nations this … More
Pax Romana (“Roman Peace”)
The Pax Romana (Latin for “Roman Peace”) is a roughly 200-year-long timespan of Roman history which is identified as a period and as a golden age of increased as … More
climate tipping points close to triggering
Even if the world somehow manages to limit future warming to the strictest international temperature goal, four Earth-changing climate “tipping points” are … More
The longest reign in British history has ended
Queen Elizabeth II, who has died age 96 after the longest reign in British history, will be mourned around the globe as … More
China reports heatwave and third driest summer
China recorded its highest temperatures and one of its lowest levels of rainfall in 61 years during a two-month summer … More
Janildo Oliveira Guajajara – Brazilian forest guardian
A rainforest activist from one of Brazil’s leading Indigenous protection groups has been killed just weeks after participating in an … More
Vietnam court upholds jail sentence for activist
Prominent human rights campaigner and writer Pham Doan Trang was sentenced to nine years for ‘propaganda against the state’. A … More
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP or DOTROIP) is a legally non-binding resolution passed by the United Nations in 2007. It delineates and defines … More
Christian European discovery doctrine
The discovery doctrine, also called the doctrine of discovery, is a concept of public international law that was promulgated by Christian European monarchies in order to … More
Aztlán – Aztecs lived in North America originally
Aztlán (also spelled Aztlan or sometimes Aztalan) is the name of the mythical homeland of the Aztecs, the ancient Mesoamerican … More
Muslims in America a century before Protestants
The first words to pass between Europeans and Americans (one-sided and confusing as they must have been) were in the … More
Copts – indigenous to North Africa
Copts (Coptic: ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ niremənkhēmi; Arabic: الْقِبْط al-qibṭ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group indigenous to North Africa who have primarily inhabited the area of modern Egypt and Sudan since antiquity. Most ethnic Copts are Coptic Orthodox Christians. They are … More
Kisii people
The Abagusii (also known as Kisii (Mkisii/Wakisii) in Swahili, or Gusii in Ekegusii) are a highly diverse East African ethnic group and nation indigenous to Kisii (formerly Kisii District) … More
Aborigines or indigenous peoples of Taiwan
The Aborigines or indigenous peoples of Taiwan speak some 16 Austronesian languages and appear closely related to the Malay peoples … More
Pashtuns
Pashtuns (/ˈpʌʃˌtʊn/, /ˈpɑːʃˌtʊn/ or /ˈpæʃˌtuːn/; Pashto: پښتانه, Pəx̌tānə́), also called Pakhtuns or Pathans and historically known as Afghans, are an Iranian ethnic group who are native to Central Asia and South Asia. Pashtuns are the 26th-largest ethnic group in … More
The Kingdom of Tungning
The Kingdom of Tungning (Chinese: 東寧王國; pinyin: Dōngníng Wángguó; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tang-lêng Ông-kok), also known as Tywan by the British at the time, was a dynastic maritime state that ruled part of … More
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