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In March and April 2023, Al Jazeera’s investigative unit released a documentary series on gold smuggling, money laundering, corruption, and organised crime in Zimbabwe. The documentary implicated the Zimbabwean President, his family, the central bank, state diplomatic officials, customs officials and a ring of notorious smugglers and fraudsters in a multibillion-dollar transnational money laundering and […]
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The Conference of Lausanne in 1922-23 offers invaluable insights into the state of the world, Europe, and the Middle East at a crossroads after World War I. This Near East Peace Conference resulted in the Lausanne Treaty, the international “birth certificate” of the Republic of Turkey, founded in October 1923. The Treaty of Lausanne belatedly […]
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Food shortages were a fact of life throughout Europe during the Second World War, and a daily struggle for most consumers. In France a children’s board game, the “Jeu de rutabaga” (Rutabaga Game, 1942), replicated the adult frustrations in shopping for food. Players rolled two dice to determine which square they would go to, in […]
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For thousands of years, wars have generally ended in the same way: a military invasion is followed by a decisive victory or negotiated ceasefire. Treaties are signed, territories seized, and reparations procured — the invading army leaves. To avoid the same failures of the Treaty of Versailles (1919), the victorious Allied armies took additional measures […]
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I had done twenty-odd discussion events around my book in East Germany, but this was something else. “If they start disturbing, or if things turn violent, just push the red button and the police will come,” said the representative of the local antiracist citizen group that had invited me to Chemnitz, pointing to a contraption […]
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‘The death knell of thralldom’ ran the newspaper headline. A grand claim, certainly, but one that many reading it in 1880 believed could be true. For these American radicals, the fact that this ‘death knell’ was ‘sounding from the little Isle of Erin’ was simply a historical quirk, for its implications were universal. As one […]
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Iranian literary historian Muhammad-Taqi Bahar (1885-1951) together with Pakistani political and literary figures
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Ireland was the last country in the western world to make contraception legally available, and the debate over doing this was divisive. In 1981, one year after contraception became legal on a restricted basis, the Irish birth rate was two-thirds higher than in the rest of western Europe. The book examines the adoption of family […]
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