France is to repatriate from Vietnam the bodies of six soldiers who died in Dien Bien Phu, the country’s last stand in colonial Indochina, the defence ministry said. Issued on: 29/03/2024 – 18:33 1 min The operation will happen “in the coming days”, the statement added. Dien Bien Phu in northern Vietnam was the site …
Israel declared 800 hectares of land in the West Bank as property of the state on Friday, a move that will facilitate use of the ground for settlement construction. The area covers large swaths of the Jordan Valley, a vital region for a future Palestinian state, and is the largest piece of land to be seized by …
Palestinian foreign minister Riyad Al-Malki told the UN’s top court Monday that his people were suffering “colonialism and apartheid” under the Israeli occupation, as judges weigh the legal conseqences of the Israeli occupation. Issued on: 19/02/2024 – 10:45 3 min “The Palestinians have endured colonialism and apartheid… There are those who are enraged by these …
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that he spoke on a daily basis with Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum, who has been removed from power in a coup. Issued on: 01/09/2023 – 22:25 1 min “I speak every day to President Bazoum. We support him. We do not recognise those who carried out the putsch. The decisions …
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Budapest on Sunday, along with heads of state and government from the Turkic states, the Balkans and Qatar, on the occasion of Hungary’s national day. In an interview with a group of Turkish journalists, which included myself, Erdoğan notably described Türkiye’s relations with Hungary as an “advanced strategic partnership.” Seeking …
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Landing in Australia, the British colonists weren’t much impressed with the small-bodied, slender-snooted marsupials called bandicoots. “Their muzzle, which is much too long, gives them an air exceedingly stupid,” one naturalist noted in 1805. They nicknamed one type the “zebra rat” because of its black-striped rump. Silly-looking or not, though, the zebra rat—the smallest bandicoot, …