This dispossession of the Indigenous communities, who actively struggled against British colonization, has not only been rhetorically justified, but sought to be legalized by the Indian government using the façade of conservation and the alibi of development. . ... Today on its 73rd Independence..…

Meanwhile, two cheers for the British empire! . . . . Speedbox . . Well, I suppose we could drift back to England as our major military alliance. ... All the recent warships are from Europe, our next generaiton submarines will be French, the new frigates will be British and the current air..…

Iranian authorities have indicated that if their vessel was released, it might return a British oil tanker that it had seized.  . ..…

If there were a real fear that the Germans were likely to obtain the atomic bomb before the US and British, wouldn’t any sane person have decided it was critical to seek help from the Russians, whose excellent and ground-breaking work on atomic fission was well known in scientific circles? ..…

And, in 2016, British lawmakers in House of Commons debated call to ban President Donald Trump, over his call for ban on Muslims entering United States.. In holding the debate, spokesperson for Trump campaign said at the time, British Parliament was setting a dangerous precedent and..…

Bennett deployed two destroyers to assist month-old military government's of peasant and Indigenous El Salvador, railways and other British lives and property and Canadian-owned utility. ..…

 One of the major rebellions in Atlantic World, Canadian Rebellion of 1836-1837 and Patriot War threatened the tranquility of United States and British throughout West. The resolution of these issues led to peace between U.S and British Empire. ..…

.” – Thomas Jefferson: Rights of British America, 1774 . United States Constitution, 13th Amendment . ..…

Before then, individual states, drawing from colonial British poor laws, had long sought to exclude the poor from arriving in the United States. ..…

Take, for example, Indian subcontinent, Sikhs, Afghan Durranis — during the early centuries of British intervention. It was British who stopped this practice, and others, with such legislation Female Infanticide Prevention Act of 1870, and Age of Consent Act of 1891.. ..…

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday that the rebels had launched counter-attack on the pincer at the village of Sukeik, and that dozens had been killed in the fighting.. ..…

Instead, Japanese turned their attention to Pacific especially British and American bases at Singapore, Burma, Philippines — and Pearl Harbor.. ..…

She lived in Ligonier in house she called Cold Comfort, after British novel Cold Comfort Farm.. ..…

And wry, good-natured sense of humour is integral part of British culture, while I have to admit that stereotypes of Germans lacking humour, and being scared to death by anything that's not controllable by cold reason, are not entirely unfounded.. ..…

To help explain this special relationship, Mark Curtis, British and journalist is Research Fellow at Royal Institute of International Affairs and has been Honorary Research Fellow at University of Strathclyde. ..…

India became independent after some 200 years of British rule. 1961. ..…

During the War of 1812, President Madison authorized Key to negotiate the release of American being held captive by British in fleet near the mouth of Potomac River. they were taken aboard British truce ship and held as captives overnight as British fleet attempted to decimate..…

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In 1942 the British Stalinists launched a vicious campaign of slander and lies against Trotskyism. ... In spite of this the duty of British workers was to defend the land of October with all means possible. . . . . ..…

At the time there was ongoing manhunt for two Canadian, Bryer Schmegelsky and Kam McLeod, connection with the murder of three people British Columbia. ..…

On December 1984, Chinese and British Governments signed Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong, affirming that the Government of the People's Republic of China will resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong with effect from July 1997, thus fulfilling the aspiration of Chinese..…

The Republic of South Sudan came into being in 2011 largely as a result of the contradictions which developed during the period of British colonialism in the late 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries until the country became liberated in 1956. . ..…

The multiple-award winning British journalist, Will Storr, has written one of the most thorough investigations of people with controversial or outright bizarre ideas -- believers in past lives, anti-evolution fundamentalists, and all forms of self-delusion. ... Denis MacEoin taught Arabic and..…

By this action, Modi government has annexed Kashmir in effort to make Kashmir integral part of India- territory that is source of conflict between Pakistan and India almost since their freedom from British Empire in 1947. ..…

While the use of the law against defamation may have been spreading America's eighteenth-century British colonies, the adoption of First Amendment at the end of that century introduced some significant barriers. ..…