World History
History and Timeline of Russian Czars
Did you know that during the reign of the Russian czars, Russia had become a European superpower? Let us take a quick look at the interesting history and timeline of the Russian czars.
History of the War of 1812
The War of 1812 fought between the newly formed United States of America and the British Empire, changed the face of the continent of North America. To know more about the history of the War of 1812, read on...
Cause and Effects of Korean War
The Korean War was a major war in world history. Here we look at its causes and consequences.
Dominican Republic History
This is a very brief chronology of the events that occurred in Dominican Republic history.
Modern Pirates
Nowadays pirates? That’s right, and their attacks are reported every year and…increasing! Read more about modern pirates.
Flood Legends – Massive Coincidence or Distorted History?
You’ve heard of Noah and the ark, but did you know that similar tales are told the world over? Is this just a coincidence, or is it something more?
Wisconsin Historians Puzzle over an 1870s Dead Horse Photograph
In Wausau, Wisconsin, people are trying to figure out the bizarre history of a photo from the 1870s that shows a man sitting on a dead horse in the middle of a deserted, dusty road.
Bringing History to Life with Military Reenactments
Visiting a historic site where a legendary battle was fought gives you a look at the area where men fought and died, but to get a glimpse of what the actual battle was like, a military reenactment helps bring history to life.
Kevin Barry
On 1 November 1920, disregarding the overwhelming appeals for clemency from an international assortment of influential organizations, political groups, newspapers and individuals, the British Government put to death a young soldier of the Irish Republic.
On 'The Banality of Evil'
Evil isn't necessarily a matter of deliberate malevolence, but rather more often the inability to rationally think through or even understand one's actions and the consequences they might lead to. Often it is senseless, meaningless.
Red Baron: The German Ace who tempted fate
Young Pilots of the German air forces were a superstitious lot as their average life expectancy in the field was about three weeks. Red Baron or Baron Manfred von Richthofen believed in his photograph being taken after the battle than before it. But his luck seemingly ran out on 21st April 1918 when he laughed at his superstition.
Medical quacks?: Dr. Albert Abrams
Inventor of Dynomizer, Oscilloclast, Radioclast: in the era where people believed electricity to be a life force, were invented by Dr. Albert Abrams in the 1900’s so as to cure any and every disease discovered at that time. The machines were discovered to be duds only after the death of Dr. Albert Abrams, making him one of the most successful quacks of all time.
Chemical Warfare: The Beginning
Fritz Haber originally started chemical warfare in 1914. How did it proceed from there into the World War I? What were the classes of chemicals used and how did they affect the soldiers?
World History: World History Timeline and Archives
The study of world history is one that offers an array of rewards, with perhaps the greatest being an understanding of the world today.
Ancient Worlds: Ancient Civilizations
Anyone interested in discovering the fascinating world of ancient civilizations can enlist the Internet to learn about past cultures and their historical significance.
World Conflicts: Ethnic and Religious Conflicts
Keeping abreast of current international wars is not an easy task, but the Internet can help by offering many resources on world conflicts.
The Inversion of Colonial Roles
The center of geopolitical-military gravity shifted to the producers and owners of mineral and agricultural wealth.
Balochistan – 60 Years Ago: the Twilight of Independence
Reasons for which the world community should be concerned with Balochistan: its great geo-strategic position between Iran, Central Asia, and India, its long coastland at the exit of the Ormuz straits, its role as regards a political containment of Iran, and its function as break waves against Islamic extremism.
Researching British Soldiers who served in the 1914-18 Great War
Notes to help those wishing to research records of British Soldiers who served in the 1914-18 Great War.
Italian Roots: Following Footsteps on the Stones of Matera
For those of us in the U.S. who are descended from the great waves of immigration of 1900, family history can be mysterious and strange. But it is also a lot more accessible than we may think, and perhaps a lot more relevant and rewarding.
Athenians Go to War Over Two Views of History
A row about a building that guidebooks describe as a 'must-see' on the boulevard linking the Greek capital's great classical sites is now threatening to eclipse the opening of Europe's most ambitious museum. All because the 1930s building blocks the view from a restaurant.
Iraq History - From the Beginning of Man to the Fall of Saddam
Iraq exists in an area of the world that has a long history. In fact, the two rivers that run through Iraq, Euphrates and Tigris are mentioned in the Bible…
Ex-Klansman Found Guilty of 1964 Killings
Federal authorities are under pressure to bring unsolved race crimes from the civil rights era to trial after a 71-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman was found guilty of charges over the 1964 deaths of two black teenagers.
The Last Words of the 376 Prisoners Executed in Texas Since 1982
The last words of the 376 prisoners executed in Texas since 1982 are faithfully recorded on the state justice department's website. Aida Edemariam reads through their final statements.
The History of Antique World Maps
A brief history of world maps. Since antiquity we have tried to make sense of the world around us and it is this drive to understand and document...
In the footsteps of D Company 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry D-Day, 6 June 1944
The true story of the coup-de-main assault by British Gliderborne soldiers to capture the two vital bridges over the Caen Canal and River Orne near Bénouville, France in the early hours of D-Day, 6 June 1944. This was the first action of D-Day the greatest seaborne invasion the world has ever known.
Shaka Zulu's Brutality Was Exaggerated, Says New Book
Shaka Zulu, the 19th-century warrior king dubbed Africa's Napoleon, was not the bloodthirsty military genius of historical depiction, says new research.
Fannie Lou Hamer Honored by U.S. Congress
Modern civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer played a critical role in attaining voting rights legislation and is remembered as Congress announces an agreement to renew the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Photo: Fannie Lou Hamer
Book Review: A History of the World in 6 Glasses
Tom Standage's new book invites you to see the world in a whole new light: through the glass of a drink. Starting with the dawn of civilization, and taking us right through modern day "beverage globalization", this book is an excellent refresher course on world history with page after page of insights into the human experience.
Pardon for Maid Executed in 1945
Campaigners celebrate clemency for woman who killed employer.
In the Southern Sun, Dark Secrets Are Rising
On a hot night in 1946 in Monroe, Georgia, four black people were lynched and all investigators met a wall of fearful silence. But almost 60 years on, justice may finally be served, reports Paul Harris.
Anarchism for a Post-modern Age
Politics, in all its forms, has failed. The notion that we can safely and successfully hand over the management of our daily lives and the setting of priorities to a political class or elite is thoroughly discredited.
Mississippi Burns As Dark History Finally Catches Up
In 1964, three young civil rights activists were killed. On Monday, Edgar Ray Killen goes on trial for their murderWhen they told me I thought they were joking."
Spanish Novelist Spied for Franco's Regime
Nobel laureate volunteered information on dissidents. One of Spain's greatest modern novelists was an informer for Franco's fascist regime and betrayed fellow intellectuals during the 1960s, according to recently discovered official records.
Story of the Stasi Holds Secret of a Bestseller
Prize for book on life beyond the Wall confirms rise of historical hits. Until November 1989, the Berlin Wall stood as a stark icon, splitting a city and defining a political era. Now, from the rubble of the division between east and west Europe, a book on the subject is establishing itself as a landmark of contemporary culture.
Chariots of Fire Stadium Reprieved
The crumbling arena for the famed 1924 Olympics will be transformed into a world-class sport and cultural centre.
Kissinger Approved Argentinian 'dirty War'
Declassified US files expose 1970s backing for junta. Henry Kissinger gave his approval to the "dirty war" in Argentina in the 1970s in which up to 30,000 people were killed, according to newly declassified US state department documents.
Row over naming of rape author
Fury after German war diary writer's identity is revealed. A bestselling memoir describing the rape of German women by Red Army soldiers in Berlin in the spring of 1945 was at the centre of a literary row last night after a German critic revealed the identity of its dead author.
1977 - When everyone but the looters stayed at home
New York lost its bustle yesterday as dead traffic lights, failed lifts and idle commuter trains deterred thousands of people from coming to work after the second great power failure in a dozen years.
Army 'ignored' Rape Claims
New evidence has emerged that suggests the British army was informed about alleged rapes being committed by its soldiers against Masai women in Kenya in the 1980s and 1990s, and took no steps to investigate or prevent further possible attacks. More than 150 Masai women who live in the...
Ghosts from a violent past
1936-1939 Troops led by General Franco, among others, rebel against the republican government and start the Spanish civil war. Tens of thousands of summary executions on both sides.
'Iron Lady' Jailed for Bosnia War Crimes
Biljana Plavsic, the former Bosnian Serb leader known as the "iron lady", has been jailed for 11 years by the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague. Plavsic had pleaded guilty to the persecution of Muslims and other non-Serbs in Serb-dominated areas of Bosnia during the 1992-1995 war. She...
Quarrels, deals, and coups
1918 Break-up of Ottoman empire saw Britain and other countries squabbling for share of Iraq's oil.
Mary Wesley
Mary Wesley, who has died aged 90, amazed the literary world by having her first novel, Jumping The Queue published when she was 70, in 1983. She went on to write nine more - three of which were filmed for TV - figured regularly in the bestseller lists, and was appointed CBE in 1995.
Portrait: Daniel Ellsberg
In 1971, former marine Daniel Ellsberg leaked documents that exposed US government lies and helped end the Vietnam war. He tells Duncan Campbell why he did it.
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
June, 1942: Four Japanese carriers are sent to the bottom at the cost of one American at the Battle of Midway. The enemy onslaught has been blunted, but he still controls a vast Pacific Empire.
Legacy of 1992 Slick Still Blights Fishermen
Antonio Ribeira needed no reminding yesterday about what a sunken oil tanker can do to the livelihood of a fishing port. Ten years after the Aegean Sea tanker hit the cliffs at the mouth of La Coruna port, he and his fellow fishermen in the nearby port of Sada are still waiting for the...
Abba Eban
The Israeli statesman Abba Eban, who has died aged 87, used words, with fluency and accuracy, as his most potent weapons. It was Eban who, in 1978, said of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's Yasser Arafat that he "never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity".
A Tragedy of Errors
I remember the day in August 1998 when Russia ended its transition. As I walked to work, dwarfed by the decaying monumental buildings and potholed spacious avenues, I saw Russians gathering around exchange offices and banks.
Contracting for Transition
The Kazakh minister of foreign affairs denied vehemently that Kazakhstan would revise contracts it has signed with foreign investors in the heady days of the early 1990's. It was in a meeting on March 26 with a delegation of nervous businessmen from the USA and it was expected and prudent - if not entirely truthful - of him to say so.
Treasure Island Revisited - On Maritime Piracy
The rumors concerning the demise of maritime piracy back in the 19th century were a tad premature. The scourge has so resurged that the International Maritime Board (IMB), founded by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in 1981, is forced to broadcast daily piracy reports to all shipping companies by satellite from its Kuala Lumpur Piracy Reporting Center, established in 1992 and partly funded by maritime insurers. The reports carry this alarming disclaimer:
Private Armies
MPRI is a leading Private Military Company (PMC) whose presence was espied in other Balkan trouble spots, such as Croatia, Kosovo, and Bosnia. The absurd is that MPRI has been training the Macedonia army - to little avail it would seem - since 1998 under a "Stability and Deterrence Program".
A Mammoth Gift
On Sept. 14, 2002, Philip and Elenora Anderson were inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame, an honor they owe to a huge, elephant-like prehistoric beast. The story begins in 1974, when Phil hired a contractor to level 20 acres of land he owned in the city of Hot Springs, S. D. in preparation for a housing development. Little did he know that he and his wife would soon become science celebrities.
Bloody Sunday para said shootings were unjustified
A paratrooper at the scene of the 1972 Bloody Sunday killings at a civil rights march in Northern Ireland said today that there was no justification for a "single shot" he saw his colleagues fire.
Zerah Warhaftig
A founding father of modern Israel, he grew to regret his youthful zeal and advocated compromise with the Palestinians. Roped into the open cockpit of a bucking two-seater aircraft flying over Jerusalem in June 1948, Rabbi Zerah Warhaftig admitted to feeling like a latter-day Joshua entering the promised land.
Croatia refuses to hand over general accused of war crimes
Croatia is engaged in a high-risk showdown with the United Nations war crimes tribunal in the Hague after refusing to hand over a former army chief indicted for war crimes against Serb civilians and wounded soldiers in 1993.
Resistance leader Rol-Tanguy dies at 94
A week after Paris celebrated the 58th anniversary of its liberation, the Communist party yesterday reported the death of Henri Rol-Tanguy, 94, the Resistance leader who precipitated the popular uprising in August 1944.
Timeline
It is almost two decades since a British minister travelled to Libya, but recent talks held in Tripoli between the two countries indicates a thawing of relations. Simon Jeffery looks back at Britain and Libya's turbulent relationship.
No Trial for Poles Who Killed Jews in 1941
A war crimes investigator said yesterday that he was closing his inquiry into a wartime massacre of Jews in south-eastern Poland, but would not be bringing charges, despite a finding that local people had played the "decisive role".
This is a very brief chronology of the events that occurred in Dominican Republic history.
Modern Pirates
Nowadays pirates? That’s right, and their attacks are reported every year and…increasing! Read more about modern pirates.
Flood Legends – Massive Coincidence or Distorted History?
You’ve heard of Noah and the ark, but did you know that similar tales are told the world over? Is this just a coincidence, or is it something more?
Wisconsin Historians Puzzle over an 1870s Dead Horse Photograph
In Wausau, Wisconsin, people are trying to figure out the bizarre history of a photo from the 1870s that shows a man sitting on a dead horse in the middle of a deserted, dusty road.
Bringing History to Life with Military Reenactments
Visiting a historic site where a legendary battle was fought gives you a look at the area where men fought and died, but to get a glimpse of what the actual battle was like, a military reenactment helps bring history to life.
Kevin Barry
On 1 November 1920, disregarding the overwhelming appeals for clemency from an international assortment of influential organizations, political groups, newspapers and individuals, the British Government put to death a young soldier of the Irish Republic.
On 'The Banality of Evil'
Evil isn't necessarily a matter of deliberate malevolence, but rather more often the inability to rationally think through or even understand one's actions and the consequences they might lead to. Often it is senseless, meaningless.
Red Baron: The German Ace who tempted fate
Young Pilots of the German air forces were a superstitious lot as their average life expectancy in the field was about three weeks. Red Baron or Baron Manfred von Richthofen believed in his photograph being taken after the battle than before it. But his luck seemingly ran out on 21st April 1918 when he laughed at his superstition.
Medical quacks?: Dr. Albert Abrams
Inventor of Dynomizer, Oscilloclast, Radioclast: in the era where people believed electricity to be a life force, were invented by Dr. Albert Abrams in the 1900’s so as to cure any and every disease discovered at that time. The machines were discovered to be duds only after the death of Dr. Albert Abrams, making him one of the most successful quacks of all time.
Chemical Warfare: The Beginning
Fritz Haber originally started chemical warfare in 1914. How did it proceed from there into the World War I? What were the classes of chemicals used and how did they affect the soldiers?
World History: World History Timeline and Archives
The study of world history is one that offers an array of rewards, with perhaps the greatest being an understanding of the world today.
Ancient Worlds: Ancient Civilizations
Anyone interested in discovering the fascinating world of ancient civilizations can enlist the Internet to learn about past cultures and their historical significance.
World Conflicts: Ethnic and Religious Conflicts
Keeping abreast of current international wars is not an easy task, but the Internet can help by offering many resources on world conflicts.
The Inversion of Colonial Roles
The center of geopolitical-military gravity shifted to the producers and owners of mineral and agricultural wealth.
Balochistan – 60 Years Ago: the Twilight of Independence
Reasons for which the world community should be concerned with Balochistan: its great geo-strategic position between Iran, Central Asia, and India, its long coastland at the exit of the Ormuz straits, its role as regards a political containment of Iran, and its function as break waves against Islamic extremism.
Researching British Soldiers who served in the 1914-18 Great War
Notes to help those wishing to research records of British Soldiers who served in the 1914-18 Great War.
Italian Roots: Following Footsteps on the Stones of Matera
For those of us in the U.S. who are descended from the great waves of immigration of 1900, family history can be mysterious and strange. But it is also a lot more accessible than we may think, and perhaps a lot more relevant and rewarding.
Athenians Go to War Over Two Views of History
A row about a building that guidebooks describe as a 'must-see' on the boulevard linking the Greek capital's great classical sites is now threatening to eclipse the opening of Europe's most ambitious museum. All because the 1930s building blocks the view from a restaurant.
Iraq History - From the Beginning of Man to the Fall of Saddam
Iraq exists in an area of the world that has a long history. In fact, the two rivers that run through Iraq, Euphrates and Tigris are mentioned in the Bible…
Ex-Klansman Found Guilty of 1964 Killings
Federal authorities are under pressure to bring unsolved race crimes from the civil rights era to trial after a 71-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman was found guilty of charges over the 1964 deaths of two black teenagers.
The Last Words of the 376 Prisoners Executed in Texas Since 1982
The last words of the 376 prisoners executed in Texas since 1982 are faithfully recorded on the state justice department's website. Aida Edemariam reads through their final statements.
The History of Antique World Maps
A brief history of world maps. Since antiquity we have tried to make sense of the world around us and it is this drive to understand and document...
In the footsteps of D Company 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry D-Day, 6 June 1944
The true story of the coup-de-main assault by British Gliderborne soldiers to capture the two vital bridges over the Caen Canal and River Orne near Bénouville, France in the early hours of D-Day, 6 June 1944. This was the first action of D-Day the greatest seaborne invasion the world has ever known.
Shaka Zulu's Brutality Was Exaggerated, Says New Book
Shaka Zulu, the 19th-century warrior king dubbed Africa's Napoleon, was not the bloodthirsty military genius of historical depiction, says new research.
Fannie Lou Hamer Honored by U.S. Congress
Modern civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer played a critical role in attaining voting rights legislation and is remembered as Congress announces an agreement to renew the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Photo: Fannie Lou Hamer
Book Review: A History of the World in 6 Glasses
Tom Standage's new book invites you to see the world in a whole new light: through the glass of a drink. Starting with the dawn of civilization, and taking us right through modern day "beverage globalization", this book is an excellent refresher course on world history with page after page of insights into the human experience.
Pardon for Maid Executed in 1945
Campaigners celebrate clemency for woman who killed employer.
In the Southern Sun, Dark Secrets Are Rising
On a hot night in 1946 in Monroe, Georgia, four black people were lynched and all investigators met a wall of fearful silence. But almost 60 years on, justice may finally be served, reports Paul Harris.
Anarchism for a Post-modern Age
Politics, in all its forms, has failed. The notion that we can safely and successfully hand over the management of our daily lives and the setting of priorities to a political class or elite is thoroughly discredited.
Mississippi Burns As Dark History Finally Catches Up
In 1964, three young civil rights activists were killed. On Monday, Edgar Ray Killen goes on trial for their murderWhen they told me I thought they were joking."
Spanish Novelist Spied for Franco's Regime
Nobel laureate volunteered information on dissidents. One of Spain's greatest modern novelists was an informer for Franco's fascist regime and betrayed fellow intellectuals during the 1960s, according to recently discovered official records.
Story of the Stasi Holds Secret of a Bestseller
Prize for book on life beyond the Wall confirms rise of historical hits. Until November 1989, the Berlin Wall stood as a stark icon, splitting a city and defining a political era. Now, from the rubble of the division between east and west Europe, a book on the subject is establishing itself as a landmark of contemporary culture.
Chariots of Fire Stadium Reprieved
The crumbling arena for the famed 1924 Olympics will be transformed into a world-class sport and cultural centre.
Kissinger Approved Argentinian 'dirty War'
Declassified US files expose 1970s backing for junta. Henry Kissinger gave his approval to the "dirty war" in Argentina in the 1970s in which up to 30,000 people were killed, according to newly declassified US state department documents.
Row over naming of rape author
Fury after German war diary writer's identity is revealed. A bestselling memoir describing the rape of German women by Red Army soldiers in Berlin in the spring of 1945 was at the centre of a literary row last night after a German critic revealed the identity of its dead author.
1977 - When everyone but the looters stayed at home
New York lost its bustle yesterday as dead traffic lights, failed lifts and idle commuter trains deterred thousands of people from coming to work after the second great power failure in a dozen years.
Army 'ignored' Rape Claims
New evidence has emerged that suggests the British army was informed about alleged rapes being committed by its soldiers against Masai women in Kenya in the 1980s and 1990s, and took no steps to investigate or prevent further possible attacks. More than 150 Masai women who live in the...
Ghosts from a violent past
1936-1939 Troops led by General Franco, among others, rebel against the republican government and start the Spanish civil war. Tens of thousands of summary executions on both sides.
'Iron Lady' Jailed for Bosnia War Crimes
Biljana Plavsic, the former Bosnian Serb leader known as the "iron lady", has been jailed for 11 years by the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague. Plavsic had pleaded guilty to the persecution of Muslims and other non-Serbs in Serb-dominated areas of Bosnia during the 1992-1995 war. She...
Quarrels, deals, and coups
1918 Break-up of Ottoman empire saw Britain and other countries squabbling for share of Iraq's oil.
Mary Wesley
Mary Wesley, who has died aged 90, amazed the literary world by having her first novel, Jumping The Queue published when she was 70, in 1983. She went on to write nine more - three of which were filmed for TV - figured regularly in the bestseller lists, and was appointed CBE in 1995.
Portrait: Daniel Ellsberg
In 1971, former marine Daniel Ellsberg leaked documents that exposed US government lies and helped end the Vietnam war. He tells Duncan Campbell why he did it.
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
June, 1942: Four Japanese carriers are sent to the bottom at the cost of one American at the Battle of Midway. The enemy onslaught has been blunted, but he still controls a vast Pacific Empire.
Legacy of 1992 Slick Still Blights Fishermen
Antonio Ribeira needed no reminding yesterday about what a sunken oil tanker can do to the livelihood of a fishing port. Ten years after the Aegean Sea tanker hit the cliffs at the mouth of La Coruna port, he and his fellow fishermen in the nearby port of Sada are still waiting for the...
Abba Eban
The Israeli statesman Abba Eban, who has died aged 87, used words, with fluency and accuracy, as his most potent weapons. It was Eban who, in 1978, said of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's Yasser Arafat that he "never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity".
A Tragedy of Errors
I remember the day in August 1998 when Russia ended its transition. As I walked to work, dwarfed by the decaying monumental buildings and potholed spacious avenues, I saw Russians gathering around exchange offices and banks.
Contracting for Transition
The Kazakh minister of foreign affairs denied vehemently that Kazakhstan would revise contracts it has signed with foreign investors in the heady days of the early 1990's. It was in a meeting on March 26 with a delegation of nervous businessmen from the USA and it was expected and prudent - if not entirely truthful - of him to say so.
Treasure Island Revisited - On Maritime Piracy
The rumors concerning the demise of maritime piracy back in the 19th century were a tad premature. The scourge has so resurged that the International Maritime Board (IMB), founded by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in 1981, is forced to broadcast daily piracy reports to all shipping companies by satellite from its Kuala Lumpur Piracy Reporting Center, established in 1992 and partly funded by maritime insurers. The reports carry this alarming disclaimer:
Private Armies
MPRI is a leading Private Military Company (PMC) whose presence was espied in other Balkan trouble spots, such as Croatia, Kosovo, and Bosnia. The absurd is that MPRI has been training the Macedonia army - to little avail it would seem - since 1998 under a "Stability and Deterrence Program".
A Mammoth Gift
On Sept. 14, 2002, Philip and Elenora Anderson were inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame, an honor they owe to a huge, elephant-like prehistoric beast. The story begins in 1974, when Phil hired a contractor to level 20 acres of land he owned in the city of Hot Springs, S. D. in preparation for a housing development. Little did he know that he and his wife would soon become science celebrities.
Bloody Sunday para said shootings were unjustified
A paratrooper at the scene of the 1972 Bloody Sunday killings at a civil rights march in Northern Ireland said today that there was no justification for a "single shot" he saw his colleagues fire.
Zerah Warhaftig
A founding father of modern Israel, he grew to regret his youthful zeal and advocated compromise with the Palestinians. Roped into the open cockpit of a bucking two-seater aircraft flying over Jerusalem in June 1948, Rabbi Zerah Warhaftig admitted to feeling like a latter-day Joshua entering the promised land.
Croatia refuses to hand over general accused of war crimes
Croatia is engaged in a high-risk showdown with the United Nations war crimes tribunal in the Hague after refusing to hand over a former army chief indicted for war crimes against Serb civilians and wounded soldiers in 1993.
Resistance leader Rol-Tanguy dies at 94
A week after Paris celebrated the 58th anniversary of its liberation, the Communist party yesterday reported the death of Henri Rol-Tanguy, 94, the Resistance leader who precipitated the popular uprising in August 1944.
Timeline
It is almost two decades since a British minister travelled to Libya, but recent talks held in Tripoli between the two countries indicates a thawing of relations. Simon Jeffery looks back at Britain and Libya's turbulent relationship.
No Trial for Poles Who Killed Jews in 1941
A war crimes investigator said yesterday that he was closing his inquiry into a wartime massacre of Jews in south-eastern Poland, but would not be bringing charges, despite a finding that local people had played the "decisive role".