A Knapsack’s Worth of Courage
Now, and for some years to come, we will need a lot less Paul Weiss, and a lot more Benjamin Warner.
Smithsonian Magazine1h
Archaeologists Unearth Rare Reminder of Britain’s Brief Reign Over the ‘Nation’s Oldest City’
The find offers archaeological evidence of the 20-year interlude when the British ruled St. Augustine, Florida, which was founded by the Spanish in 1565 ...
The Civil War Lives Through Mark Twain’s Fiction—and Donald Trump’s Reality
The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN1d
British military outpost from 1781 unearthed in rare archaeological find in Florida
A rare glimpse into American history has been unearthed: a never-before-seen British military outpost has surfaced on the ...
Daily Express15d
Do you support conscription if Britain goes to war?
The British public could be conscripted into the armed forces in the event of war with Russia according ... Veterans' Minister Alistair Carns said Britain's army would be "expended" within six ...
Yahoo18d
Britain's 'flabby' state to be reformed vows PM Keir Starmer - amid claim civil servants could be paid more
Britain’s “overcautious and flabby” state will be reformed and Civil Service red tape cut, the Prime Minister will promise on Thursday. But civil servants could be in line for wage rises as ...
London Evening Standard18d
Britain's 'flabby' state to be reformed vows PM Keir Starmer - amid claim civil servants could be paid more
Britain’s “overcautious and flabby” state will be reformed and Civil Service red tape cut ... and have 72-hour emergency kit ready amid war fears EU advises citizens to keep emergency ...
PBS20d
Ugandan special forces deploy to South Sudan to protect government as civil war fears grow
Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar ...
The Financial Times20d
US and Ukraine hold talks on ending war with Russia
US and Ukrainian delegations held high-stakes talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday that Kyiv hopes can repair its fraught relationship with Washington and restart American weapons delivery and ...
Newsweek20d
Syria's Civil War Takes Another Deadly, Dramatic Turn
Syria's 14-year civil war has undergone yet another rapid series of shifts, with violence sweeping the west coast homeland of deposed President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite Muslim sect and ...
Associated Press20d
Uganda deploys special forces to South Sudan to protect the government as fears of civil war grow
Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar, an ...
Al Jazeera English20d
Uganda deploys troops in South Sudan as civil war fears grow
The pair signed a peace deal to bring a five-year civil war to an end in 2018. Kiir’s government detained two ministers and several senior military officials allied with Machar last week.