Future South African Prime Minister Jan Smuts led a series of audacious assaults on the British Cape Colony. Reporter Sol Plaatje, who later founded the African National Congress, witnessed the racism of both the British and the Boers. ..…

Qaid-e-Azam had once rightly asserted in somewhat bitter mood that he could face his opponents in the Indian National Congress, Indian British Empire but he was unable to battle with the Mullah brigade terming him Kafir-e-Azam . . Qaid-e-Azam had once rightly asserted in somewhat bitter mood..…

Barack Mandela is a financial donor to: Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, Stanford Law School, Princeton University, UC Berkeley Law School, UC Hastings Law School, Sidwell Friends School, Choate Rosemary Hall, Eton College in the United Kingdom, and the British Red Cross. He is a former member of..…

Gandhi bequeathed his last name to Nehru’s daughter, Indira, whose family has continued to lead Congress since India achieved independence from British rule in 1947. . But Congress came to the Gandhi game late this year and is struggling to stake an obvious claim because of Modi..…

Library of Congress . . . Today is Sept. 23. On this date in: . 1780 . British spy John Andre was captured along with papers revealing Benedict Arnold’s plot to surrender West Point to the British. . 1806 . ..…

Library of Congress . . . Today is Sept. 10. On this date: . 1813 . An American naval force commanded by Oliver H. Perry defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. ..…

The American Founders made sure the president could never suspend Congress . The American Founders made sure the president could never suspend Congress . ..…

The supposed benefits of leaving EU are no longer touted, with the exception of promised trade deal with US President Donald Trump that would be almost as unacceptable to US Congress as it would be to British public opinion. ..…

Did Glenn Simpson Lie to Congress? . News of the News: And could Christopher Steele, the British spy who spent his life as a Cold Warrior, have become an unwitting Kremlin pawn? ..…

Happy Liberty Day on the 2nd of July, 1776, Continental Congress approved the secession of its Thirteen States from British Empire. ..…

The British backed Indian terrorists attacks on American settlements by supporting Shawnee leader Tecumseh. ... The British attacked New Orleans. . When the war ended, President James Madison addressed Congress, Feb. 18, 1815: “I lay before Congress copies of the treaty of peace..…

The North American colonies shared only British nationality before the Continental Congress, and the Declaration’s signers divorced those roots. . ..…

The War of 1812 began as Congress approved, and President James Madison signed, declaration of war against Britain. 1815. Napoleon Bonaparte met his Waterloo as British and Prussian troops defeated French Belgium. 1908. ..…

Gershwin Fund Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress/Handout via REUTERS . ... British-born actor Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca the Wookiee, the loyal, furry companion of space buccaneer Han Solo in five of the . . ..…

 Sheila Gewolb, Senior Vice President of the Board of Deputies of British Jewish  ..  Adrián Werthein, President of the Latin American Jewish Congress.. ..…

Trump is at loggerheads with US Congress while Theresa May has just resigned after failing to get British Parliament to support Brexit proposals... ..…

It's like during British period, when not institution supported Congress party yet we fought and won and we going to do it again, .. ..…

membership of Congress & Muslim League June 1947  for Constituent Assembly was, respectively, 299 & 73. Indian Independence Act, 1947 that ended British suzerainty over 565 Princely States from appointed date of 15th August 1947 read with speeches of Lord Mountbatten,    & Lord..…

The issue is how the British government has become a passive player in the world. . Republicans in the White House and Congress are renewing their support for a U.S...…

On that day, Muslim leaders from the Indian subcontinent met in Lahore and adopted the resolution called the Lahore Resolution or the Pakistan Resolution, which ended all attempts to unite Muslims and Hindus in one front to demand independence from the British government. When the Indian National..…

Congress met specifically to talk about the formation of a boundary commission. However, behind the scenes, a few American wives of British statesmen (including Mary Chamberlain, wife of Joseph Chamberlain) told their husbands that Congress could declare war. ..…

., tweeted that a high-level source told him that Brennan, while serving insisted that the unverified and fake Steele dossier be included in Intelligence Report and called for Brennan to be called to testify before Congress. The dossier, compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele, was..…

It was only the Muslim majority Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province (known as NWFP at the time) that voted for congress party led by Bacha Khan in the province. But during the political wheeling and dealing with the British in 1947 the same congress part abandoned our province to the..…

Unfortunately due to the role played by Comintern and the leadership of CPI with the policy of forming 'people's front with the progressive bourgeois of Congress and Muslim League opportunity was missed. By supporting the war, Despite CPI leaderships overtures to British, the option for..…

As I document in a forthcoming book, the Israel lobby goes much deeper historically than most people realize and has long exercised an outsized influence on Congress and presidential elections. .   . .   . On February 15 the British Guardian did something American newspapers,..…

Muslims had steadily lost ground politically and economically under the British Raj, but the Hindu-dominated Congress did little to accommodate their particular demands. . ... It also inherited the British system of representation, and adopted a Westminster parliamentary model that..…

Barron opens with an account of George Washington and the Continental Congress over Washington’s plan to burn New York City before the British invasion. Congress ordered him not to, and he obeyed. Barron takes us through all the wars that followed: 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil..…

The British House of Commons is more raucous than American Congress, and the speaker does not say order, order you motherfuckers.. ..…

World Jewish Congress and British Jews stand against anti-Semitsm There must be no tolerance for use of slur 'Yid.. NEW YORK — The World Jewish Congress and the Board of Deputies of British Jews have condemned the use of 'Yid to describe Tottenham Spurs, London football..…

Library of Congress/via REUTERS . American, British, French, and German gas masks. Library of Congress/via REUTERS . Thursday, April 06, 2017 . American, British, French, and German gas masks. ..…

West Bank Kin Cheer First Palestinian-American Woman in US Congress . . Poll: 40 Percent of British Jews Considering Leaving UK ‎Over Antisemitism . . ..…

Obama also encountered political resistance in both the British Parliament and U.S. Congress, but hawks in the U.S. State Department were itching for a new war. . ..…

When the US Congress declared war on Britain on June 18, 1812, the British were dismayed and bewildered, for at that moment they were desperately trying to head off a war they did not want. . ..…

Israeli- Jewish Congress welcomed the news of British decision to ban the terrorist group Hezbollah in its entirety... ..…

The British UCU Congress and the impossibility of reforming the trade unions . ..…

Calcutta, December 26: Annie Besant elected Indian National Congress President as opposition mounts to British imperialism . ... Annie Besant, a British national, is elected president of the Indian National Congress (INC) today at its 32nd congress in the Indian..…

Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress) . . The Balfour Declaration determined British policy under the League of Nations’ Mandate, which ultimately facilitated the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. . ..…

House panels to launch fight in Congress over Obamacare replacement . ... British gov't reveals tax rises for strong economy . . US launches criminal probe into WikiLeaks release of CIA hacking tools: reports . ..…

They torched the White House, the Capitol, and even the Library of Congress. British soldiers ate President Madison’s dinner in the Executive Mansion before setting it ablaze. ..…

In September 1774, colonists convened the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia; the members voted to embargo British commerce until all British taxes and the Coercive Acts were repealed. ... Within a week, 16,000 men from the four New England colonies formed a siege army outside..…

Much of their critique revolved around whether a right of habeas corpus exists for foreign nationals independent of the law that Congress passed. That discussion gravitated to distant principles of English common law and invoked the names of such 18th century British legal icons as Lord..…

The president himself sounded more conciliatory in discussing Congress' action on the issue. . ... American and British warplanes pounded an airport and a radar facility at two sites in southern Iraq under a new Pentagon policy that paves the way for a possible war. ..…

Addressing European Jewish Congress, former British PM says there is an opportunity to form new alliances between Israel and its neighbors. ..…

Of the 55 delegates to Congress, nine were born in the British Isles and more than a dozen were educated in Europe. . ..…