News reports are suggesting that Tuareg separatist rebels in Mali have surrounded the historic town of Timbuktu after a rapid advance through the north of the country.read more
Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has said the war on drugs has failed, and it is time to end the “taboo” on discussing decriminalisation.read more
Last week, there was a noise around the world following the making of a viral video about the much misunderstood, secretive and little known African warlord called Joseph Kony, and the Lord’s Resistance Army. It resulted in a curse heard around the world. The story follows below.read more
Saturday, 17th May, 2012, the Egyptian media are announcing that Pope Chenouda III head of the Coptic Church is dead at the age of 88 years. He has been pope since 1971.read more
“Contract children” were expected to perform hard labour on the farms
A shameful chapter of Swiss history was explored in the recently released feature film about “Verdingkinder” or “contract children” or “slave children.read more
Greece started as a land of contrasts, ie a state in the 18th and early 19th century, inhabited by many different tribes, each unique civilizations: Albanian populations in Epirus, the Ionian Greeks Romance, Jews in Thessalonica, Turks and Bulgarian speakers in Macedonia and so forth.read more
Detail of “Atahualpa, Fourteenth Inca, 1 of 14 Portraits of Inca Kings”
Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, ruled over a vast terrain that stretched along the Pacific Ocean from Ecuador to Chile. After winning the crown in 1532 through a bitter civil war with his brother after their father’s death, he was ambushed and executed by the Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro. read more
A fire is burning in a 40m-wide area on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, 10km off the Nigerian coast, [… linked with an accident that occurred in an oil rig owned by Chevron]. read more
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