2000 – Liberation Day of Lebanon: Israel withdraws its army from Lebanese territory (with the exception of the disputed Shebaa farms zone) 18 years after the invasion of 1982
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Held on March 8, International Women’s Day celebrates the progress women have made over the last century, and the inspiring women who helped make that progress happen. From the suffragist movement of the 1800s to the 2017 Women’s March in…
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Russia’s Defence Ministry said Tuesday (10) that its forces had pushed deeper into eastern Ukraine, reaching the border between the Luhansk and Donetsk regions amid a grinding battle for control over a strategic strip of highway that has…
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ZAPORIZHZHIA / KYIV  - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday (21) claimed the "liberation" of the flattened city of Mariupol after nearly two months of fighting, demanding its trapped Ukrainian defenders be sealed into their…
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By Dan Bilefsky KABUL -  Afghans woke up Tuesday (31)morning to the reality of an Afghanistan firmly under the control of the Taliban, with intensifying fears that their country was being subsumed by a repressive regime amid escalating…
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On this day in 2000, the Israeli army withdrew from territory in Southern Lebanon, marking the end of the South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000). The withdrawal was largely because of the efforts of the Lebanese Army. It is celebrated as an…
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Sven Olof Joachim Palme (January 1927 – February 1986), the internationally famous Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986 was assassinated in Stockholm on this day is 1986.…
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The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 was a military confrontation between India and Pakistan that occurred during the liberation war in East Pakistan from December 3, 1971 to the fall of Dhaka on December 16, 1971. The war began with pre-emptive…
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Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978), was an American anthropologist whose great fame owed as much to the force of her personality and her outspokenness as it did to the quality of her scientific work. Often controversial as an academic, her reports…
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