• They dispute Sri Lanka's assertion that the role of the army has been scaled back in the former theatre of war in the north, and want UN member states to subject the country's government to tough scrutiny.

    BBC: Shirani Bandaranayake: Sri Lanka MPs' impeachment bid

  • "This is well illustrated by the rich harvests of fishermen after the Second World War and the rebuilding of North Sea herring stocks after the decline of the 1970s, " said Holm.

    CNN: Future protection of the oceans could lie in the past

  • His description of the remarkable decline of Catholic Ireland over the past decade is matched only by his sympathetic, though critical, account of the toll that sectarian war in the north has taken on the cross-border Church of Ireland.

    ECONOMIST: Irish history: Love one another | The

  • The BBC's reporter in Kampala says this is the latest in a number of articles about the conduct of the war against Lord's Resistance Army rebels in the north of the country that have angered the army.

    BBC: Police raid Ugandan paper

  • After securing 194 of the 238 local councils contested in the polls, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lanka's president, described the results as a renewed mandate for her to push ahead with proposals to grant limited autonomy to Tamils living in the war-afflicted north and east of the island.

    ECONOMIST: Sri Lanka

  • At the time of the revolutionary war around 40m buffalo roamed the North American continent.

    ECONOMIST: Buffalo in America

  • On the eve of World War II, African Americans in the North had achieved real political leverage.

    NPR: The March On Washington �� 20 Years Late

  • Joseph Chinotimba, a veteran of the war of independence who spearheaded the farm evictions and now lives on a farm in Concession, about 55km north of Harare, says there is nothing sacred about the old farmhouses and they should not be celebrated.

    BBC: Zimbabwe's surprising bid to preserve its colonial past

  • It is reckoned that a total of 520, 000 Tamil refugees have left the country since the start of the war, 60, 000 of them to India and most of the rest to Europe, North America or Australia.

    ECONOMIST: Sri Lanka

  • So I find myself in a refurbished Cold War bunker just north of Philadelphia where the future of the long-haul electric business is on full display.

    FORBES: Big Data Unleashes the Electric Equivalent of a Free Keystone Pipeline

  • Other embroidery features on the 2015 embroidery panel will depict visits by both Queen Elizabeth I and II, the founding of the veterinary profession in Britain, and French prisoners of war held on parole at Odiham and North Warnborough during the Napoleonic Wars.

    BBC: Part of the Odiham embroidery design

  • He had an exemplary war, serving on the battlefields of Europe and North Africa.

    ECONOMIST: Duke of Norfolk

  • President Salva Kiir accused the north of stoking war and infiltrating saboteurs into his country.

    ECONOMIST: Sudan north and south

  • The result looks unlikely to advance a settlement of Sri Lanka's 17-year war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who want a separate state in the north-east for the Tamil minority.

    ECONOMIST: Sri Lanka

  • It is also rebuilding the main roads in the war-shattered north and east, and is constructing a state-of-the-art performance-arts centre.

    ECONOMIST: Brotherly love, massive aid and no questions asked

  • Newspapers are recounting harrowing tales of survivors of so-called death camps in North Borneo during World War II - while revealing the existence of what The Sun daily calls "hell holes" in present-day Malaysia.

    CNN: ASIANOW - Asiaweek

  • Next month, the railway between Schnega and Salzwedel, closed during the cold war, is to be reopened, directly linking the port of Bremerhaven, on the North Sea, to Berlin for the first time since 1945.

    ECONOMIST: Germany

  • This vicious war on the poor will devastate hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians who are already suffering.

    CNN: North Carolina lawmakers shame state

  • Arriving at the height of the surge, Mr. Obama was supposed to visit American troops at the Bagram base, an hour's drive north of Kabul, and then to discuss the war over dinner with Mr. Karzai in the presidential palace.

    WSJ: Hamid Karzai: Our Man in Kabul?

  • About 250 people turned out for the protest march, organised by the North East London Council of Action, from Chase Green war memorial through Enfield town centre to the hospital.

    BBC: Chase Farm Hospital: Protest march over A&E plans

  • In Sudan, after years of war and thousands of deaths, we call on both North and South to pull back from the brink of violence and choose the path of peace.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Addresses the British Parliament

  • After the Korean War (1950-53), North Korea suffered from a lack of manpower and looked for ways to speed up the country's reconstruction.

    NPR: 'A Tale of Music': From 'Literature from the Axis of Evil'

  • As a vital ally to South Korea since the Korean war in the 1950s, the United States has pledged military backing to Seoul in the event of an attack by North Korea.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Midgley, born in the working-class north of England in 1911, was in military intelligence during the second world war, trying to work out Germany's intentions.

    ECONOMIST: John Midgley

  • The U.S. hasn't observed preparations for war, and the North's usual winter mobilization of troops and militias is coming to an end.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: Calling Kim's Bluff

  • Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina -- a Republican opponent of the war -- pointed out the United States "is borrowing money from foreign governments to pay our bills" while oil and gas prices have more than doubled.

    CNN: Iraq's oil surplus fuels criticism in war hearings

  • Rep. Howard Coble of North Carolina said most of his constituents still support the war effort, but he said that support is being tested by continuing losses.

    CNN: Powell:?Troops could begin leaving?Iraq this year

  • The U.S. has about 28, 500 troops in South Korea to help deter potential aggression from North Korea, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War.

    NPR: North Korea Sets Preconditions For Talks' Restart

  • But war remains an everyday horror elsewhere, and the specter of more mass killing haunts even the calm redoubts of North America.

    FORBES: Another Look

  • Spurs eyed Leeds boss George Graham - who had won glory with north London archrivals Arsenal - and engaged in a public tug-of-war with the Yorkshire side for the Scotsman.

    BBC: Le Arsenal and Le Takeover

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