4 d. ago Archaeologists find wreck of large medieval boat in Barcelona

Experts hope vessel’s old timbers and nails will help shed light on how boats were built during medieval periodArchaeologists excavating the site of a former fish market in Barcelona have uncovered the remains of a large medieval boat that was swallowed by the waters off the Catalan capital 500 or 600 years ago.The area, which is being dug up in order to build a new centre dedicated to biomedicine and biodiversity, has already yielded finds ranging from a Spanish civil war air-raid shelter to traces of the old market and of the city’s 18th-century history. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Inside the staff 'civil war' under Pete Hegseth with 'vicious' backstabbing aides as he shakes up Pentagon

Pete Hegseth's tenure at the Pentagon has reached a new level of drama with back-stabbing aides, an ambitious wife and internal civil war involving the future of America's military.

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5 d. ago Pete Hegseth's top aide is out at the Pentagon as he becomes FIFTH in mass exodus amid power struggle

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's controversial chief of staff Joe Kasper is now expected to leave the Pentagon, the fifth top official to leave the administration in a week.

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6 d. ago Eleven killed in Gaza school shelter as Israel continues bombing campaign

Wave of airstrikes claim at least 25 lives while Arab negotiators make new ceasefire proposalAt least 25 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza, including 11 in the bombing of a school turned shelter, the strip’s civil defence agency said, as Israel’s war against Hamas in the besieged Palestinian territory grinds on despite a new ceasefire proposal from Arab mediators.Intense Israeli bombings hit several areas of Gaza on Wednesday, killing 11 in a school sheltering displaced people in al-Tuffah, a neighbourhood of Gaza City. The strike ignited a huge fire that claimed most of the casualties, said a civil defence spokesperson, Mahmoud Bassal. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Children in school shelter among 25 killed in wave of Israeli strikes on Gaza

Israel launches wave of airstrikes as Arab negotiators make new ceasefire proposalAt least 25 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza, including 11 in the bombing of a school turned shelter, the strip’s civil defence agency said, as Israel’s war against Hamas in the besieged Palestinian territory grinds on despite a new ceasefire proposal from Arab mediators.Intense Israeli bombings hit several areas of Gaza on Wednesday, killing 11 in a school sheltering displaced people in al-Tuffah, a neighbourhood of Gaza City. The strike ignited a huge fire that claimed most of the casualties, said a civil defence spokesperson, Mahmoud Bassal. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago The Spin | Reborn in the USA: has cricket finally cracked the American market?

A lack of pitches, kit and coaching has held the sport back for far too long but Major League Cricket may be the answerIf you look south from the Manhattan end of Brooklyn Bridge, you can just about imagine the cricket field that used to be beneath what is now the South Seaport – and, if you squint, pretend that the people making their way around the bars and clubs and restaurants are the descendants of the same New York crowd who attended a match here between a local team and a London XI in 1751. Modern-day Manhattan is built on cricket pitches, among other things. They are there under the streets, among the farms and tenements cleared to make way for skyscrapers. There’s another under Central Park, a third below the NYU Langone medical centre, where – in 1844 – Canada beat the USA by 23 runs in what is considered the first international fixture in all sport.People have been dreaming of reviving American cricket ever since it died during the civil war, more than 160 years ago. It w...

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1 week ago The Guardian view on Sudan’s third year of conflict: a war against civilians | Editorial

The ambitions of two generals and the interests of other states have led to the massacre of adults and children already forced to flee their homesSudan has begun its third year of civil war in the bleakest manner imaginable: mourning the massacre of hundreds of civilians and relief workers in displacement camps in Darfur. What began as a power struggle between generals has led to the killing of tens of thousands of people and widespread sexual and ethnic violence. The International Rescue Committee says the result is the biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded: 640,000 people face catastrophic hunger. Basic services and infrastructure, already woefully inadequate, have been destroyed.“One thing that has been consistent since day one,” the Sudanese activist and commentator Dallia Mohamed Abdelmoniem observed this week, “[is that] it’s a war on civilians. Now, I think we’ve become so desensitised to it, that doesn’t make much of a difference any more. There’s no impact.” Continue re...

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1 week ago ICJ hears Sudan case accusing UAE of ‘complicity in genocide’

United Arab Emirates says Sudan ‘misusing’ world court in proceedings relating to African nation’s civil warThe international court of justice will rule in the next few weeks on whether the United Arab Emirates can be plausibly found “complicit in the commission of genocide” by arming the Rapid Support Forces militia in Sudan’s civil war.The case was brought by Sudan, whose acting justice minister, Muawia Osman, told the world court in The Hague last week that the country’s “ongoing genocide would not be possible without the complicity of the UAE, including the shipment of arms to the RSF”. Sudan wants ICJ judges to force the UAE to stop its alleged support for the RSF and make “full reparations”, including compensation to victims of the war. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Myanmar frees almost 5,000 prisoners in new year’s amnesty but no sign of Aung San Suu Kyi

Thousands released in holiday amnesty as Myanmar reels from civil war and a devastating earthquake

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1 week ago Wednesday briefing: Two years into the brutal civil war in Sudan, a London summit makes little progress

Wednesday briefing: Two years into the brutal civil war in Sudan, a London summit makes little progress  The Guardian

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2 w. ago Leaders meet in London to raise funds for Sudan on second anniversary of civil war

Leaders meet in London to raise funds for Sudan on second anniversary of civil war  Yahoo News Canada

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2 w. ago Foreign ministers attend conference in London to try to halt Sudan civil war

Foreign ministers attend conference in London to try to halt Sudan civil war  upi.com

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2 w. ago Famine and atrocities mount as Sudan's civil war enters its third year

Sudan's civil war marks the end of its second year on Tuesday, and the fighting, atrocities and famine are only mounting

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2 w. ago Sudan in ‘world’s largest humanitarian crisis’ after two years of civil war

NGOs and UN say country is ‘worse off than ever before’ with wide-scale displacement, hunger and attacks on refugee campsTimeline: Sudan’s two years of war and its devastating tollSudan is suffering from the largest humanitarian crisis globally and its civilians are continuing to pay the price for inaction by the international community, NGOs and the UN have said, as the country’s civil war enters its third year.Two years to the day since fighting erupted in Khartoum between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, hundreds of people were feared to have died in RSF attacks on refugee camps in the western Darfur region in the latest apparent atrocity of a war marked by its brutality and wide-scale humanitarian impact. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Death, displacement and devastation – two years of war in Sudan

How the north African country has been torn apart by the conflict that broke out in 2023Sudan in ‘world’s largest humanitarian crisis’Long read: How Sudan was plunged into warSudan’s civil war broke out two years ago to the day, since when it has killed tens of thousands, uprooted more than 13 million and created what the International Rescue Committee has described as “the biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Why golf doesn't need to worry about fresh civil war breaking out

Media relationships in spotlight after Shane Lowry lets rip over Rory McIlroy question

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2 w. ago The UN decries ongoing combat in Myanmar as earthquake relief faces big challenges

Human rights experts for the United Nations are expressing urgent concern about ongoing military operations in Myanmar’s civil war, despite ceasefires called by major parties to facilitate relief efforts after the country’s devastating March 28 earthquake

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2 w. ago The reluctant collaborator: surviving Syria’s brutal civil war – and its aftermath – podcast

At 18, Mustafa was told his only way out of prison was to join the regime forces. After 14 years, his past as one of Assad’s fighters could get him killedBy Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. Read by Mo Ayoub Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘Civil War’ filmmaker and a former SEAL built a new kind of combat movie in ‘Warfare’

Filmmaker Alex Garland has teamed up with former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza to make a new kind of war film

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2 w. ago Elon Musk escalates MAGA civil war over Trump's tariffs with very telling action

Elon Musk isn't backing off his escalating war of words with President Donald Trump's tariff architect and trade advisor Peter Navarro.

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