Grudges can last for a long time. The one held between China and Japan, the two traditional adversaries of the Far East, however, has been particularly lengthy. Since 1895, when China suffered a bitter defeat to Japan in the Si...
Southern Nevada’s Moapa Band of Paiutes called for the closure of the Reid Gardner coal plant and a transition to clean renewable energy future for Nevada. The tribe has successfully managed to close most of the Reid Gard...
The Prawer Law affects the Arab population of the Naqab area (Negev). Also known as the Bedouins, they constitute a semi-nomadic Arab population that had inhabited the southern desert of Israel long before Israel was establishe...
The traumatic images and gruesome stories of ‘ethnic cleansing’ which emanated from the conflict in Bosnia & Hercegovina dominated television screens in the early 1990s. The conflict ended in November 1995 with the sign...
It seems like Australia has a habit of ousting sitting Prime Ministers. Just 3 years and 3 days after Julia Gillard took over from Kevin Rudd, the tables have turned with Rudd resuming the Prime Ministership. The extraordinary ...
1.6 billion people around the world live without reliable access to electricity. 600 million of those live in Africa. I’m sure this isn’t the first time you’ve heard an astonishing statistic like this. Everyday we’...