Thich Minh Tue is a Buddhist monk who captured hearts in Vietnam last year when he undertook a barefoot hike across the country that met the disapproval of controlling communist authorities. He has ...

For primate sanctuaries in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the year 2025 has begun with panic, worry and uncertainty as ...

The claim that Bengali is the second official, official or state language of West African nation Sierra Leone is not correct as the language was never considered as a second state language in Sierra ...

The unceremonious end of the "end of history” - which has unfolded steadily since 9-11 – and the fading of the Obama era’s alluring but naïve dream of “post-partisanship” – gives robust new leases on ...

Writing teacher Michelle Petty has won the 2025 Braddock Award for her co-authored paper on Black linguistic justice.

Sudan’s vicious civil war is nearly two years old. Over 150,000 people are dead, and 12 million displaced, in the world’s ...

From the moment a law granting the warlords of the Lebanese civil war amnesty was passed, establishing “immunities” for official and legitimizing “impunity” (all compounded by an external veto on the ...

Even though they blame it for plunging the country into war, the Lebanese are turning to Hezbollah, whose resources remain ...

Syrian foreign minister says his country has gained freedom while managing to avoid another civil war, but observers point to ...

Catalogue of shop in Nantwich, Cheshire reveals 'treatments' using everything from quicksilver and arsenic to 'oil of ...

Conservationists hope the historical and cultural significance of landmarks like the ancient city of Palmyra and the medieval ...

After years of strong animosity towards and direct clashes with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) – the party that ...