The richest one per cent of Indians now control over 40 per cent of the nation's wealth while the bottom half share just 6.4 ...

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Even the prospect of civil war cannot be ruled out,' an expert tracking growing violence in the West Bank told Newsweek.

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A commission of inquiry in Victoria concluded that British colonialists' treatment of the state's First Peoples in the 1830s ...

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Museums worldwide are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Here's why it matters, who's receiving them, and what it means ...

In 1843, in the aftermath of the First Opium War, British colonial forces took over Hong Kong. But the walled city—so named because of fortifications like cannons, a gate, and watchtowers ...

"Th Declaration is the clearest indication of what our ideals are, what we are aiming for," said Cristofer Wiley, a social ...

1783: Spain regains control of Florida after the British surrender at Yorktown, which effectively grants the United States of America its independence. The so-called "Second Spanish Period" lures ...