Sri Lankan civil war; mass evacuation in Haicheng earthquake; McCarthy gives first anti-communist speech; Nepal abolishes ...

The Diversity Book Club at St. James' Episcopal Church in Skaneateles has selected three books to discuss this winter and ...

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Migrant smuggling is often framed in right-wing Western media and political rhetoric as an “ invasion ” by non-citizens crossing borders. Such fear-mongering fuels exclusionary politics, dehumanising ...

Misrepresented videos continued to flood social media following the deadly January 7 earthquake that rocked China's remote Tibet region and was also felt in neighbouring Nepal and parts of India.

Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound from the West African coast to North America in late 1859. Her story ...

Paola Vargas Arana received 9 years funding from CNPq & CAPES Brazil, The British Academy, The University of Edinburgh, King's College London and The University of Manchester. The transatlantic ...

The quake woke residents in Nepal’s capital of Kathmandu, about 140 miles from the epicentre, and sent them running into the streets. On the southwest edge of Kathmandu, a video showed water ...

He was sentenced to 30 years. Sex trafficking, like forced labor, is a contemporary form of slavery. I am an academic who studies the mindset of slaveholders to understand more fully their ...

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An enormous Bronze-Age “mega fortress” has been revealed in the Caucasus mountains, leaving researchers puzzled as to the function that this colossal prehistoric structure played on the ...

It was felt in neighboring Nepal. By David Pierson Berry Wang and Bhadra Sharma David Pierson and Berry Wang reported from Hong Kong, and Bhadra Sharma from Kathmandu, Nepal. Using their hands and ...