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Mon dieu! Quel bordel, as say the French. France, the home of
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During Sri Lanka’s second JVP insurrection, 41 Buddhist monks and two Catholic priests were reportedly killed by the JVP’s armed wing, while government security forces and paramilitary groups were blamed for the deaths of 681 Buddhist monks. The account examines
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Sri Lanka’s Parliament has passed an amended Anti-Corruption (Amendment) Bill, introducing provisions intended to strengthen the investigation and punishment of fraud, bribery and corruption
An alleged gang rape at Cornell University in New York has renewed scrutiny of male student fraternities in the United States, after messages reportedly exchanged in a fraternity group chat suggested that members discussed the assault while failing to intervene. The case, involving seven
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President Donald Trump and Iran’s leaders are preparing for the possibility of
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The Trump administration has launched an investigation into nine major US universities
Russia has requested that Dutch authorities hand over Tomoko Akane, president of
A decade after South Korea shut down Soranet, a notorious online network
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Michel Foucault’s examination of how medical, legal and social institutions classify human bodies is returning to public debate with the publication of an unpublished text, The Hermaphrodites, as the French philosopher’s centenary
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by Durga The most revealing sentence in Lindy Li’s Unburdened may be the one that sounds least like political analysis: “Why did I do it? You want the unvarnished truth…? It was
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