"Under international law, Israel and the international community have responsibilities not only to avoid actions that impede development but to take affirmative steps to foster development in the Occupied Palestinian Territory," said Mahmoud Elkhafif, Coordinator of the UNCTAD Assistance to the Palestinian...
Is Mandarin the most spoken language in China? What countries gained territory during the 19th century? Could China operate under a power-elite model? How did the history of foreign influences in Cambodia (eg. French colonised Cambodia, the Japanese occupied Cambodia) led to the rise of the Kh...
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian forces have had "successes" in three areas of the Russian-occupied region of Kherson, a Ukrainian regional official said on Wednesday, two days after Kyiv announced the start of a southern counter-offensive to retake territory. Yuriy Sobo...
Russia appears to have diverted several thousand troops from occupied territory inside Ukraine to counter a surprisingly successful Ukrainian offensive inside Russian borders in a move that potentially weakens Moscow’s war effort, two senior US officials told CNN. The development has drawn American att...
In 1839, Britain formed and sent its Grand Army of the Indus to invade Afghanistan and thus deny the territory to Russia. It was a fairly easy, if unnecessary, invasion, with only one pitched battle, at Ghazni. The British occupied Kandahar and Kabul with little inconvenience, aside from ...
"China will have an equal amount within 4-5 years. "It would be great if we could all denuclearise because the power of nuclear weapons is crazy." Asked about those comments, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters: "Dialogue between Russia and the US on arms cont...
I absolutely believe that the original people were the Master Builders of the Earth’s civilizations, not the colonizers that occupied and established control over foreign lands and people, and then they took credit for building everything we see in the world today....
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000 breeding pairs and consisted of over 2 million penguins. To calculate the area occupied by the colony at different times between 1960 and the present, the researchers studied changes in its contours over the years. They found that the colony has shrunk, yielding its territory to encroaching...
Netanyahu has previously also rejected the suggestion that the Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the occupied West Bank, could take control of Gaza, although the plan outlined in February did not mention this. Instead, the plan envisions “local entities” running the civil service...