In the 1960s, British leaders were in the final stages of dismantling the empire that their forebears had built over the preceding 400 years. Yet, as Africans, Indians, and others were establishing their new nations, Chagossians were losing control of their small island archipelago in...
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Estonia’s ruling center-right party won Sunday’s parliamentary elections by a landslide, a victory that underscores ongoing support for Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, a staunch backer of Ukraine and a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Telegraph reported Monday. Results showed that Kallas’ Reform Party...
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A huge fire ripped through a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh at the weekend, leaving around 12,000 displaced people without shelter, the Guardian reported. Officials said the blaze occurred Sunday at Camp 11 in Cox’s Bazar, a southeastern border district where more than a million...
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South Korea unveiled a scheme to compensate individuals who were forced to work for Japanese companies during Japan’s colonization of the country in the first half of the 20th century, a move that seeks to resolve a longstanding issue that has strained relations between the...
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Scientists have long thought that the Earth’s structure consisted of four layers: an outermost crust, then a mantle of molten silicate rock, a molten-liquid outer core and finally a metallic inner core. Turns out, there is a fifth layer, CNN reported. Decades ago, geoscientists suggested that there...
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