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French-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud on Monday won France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, for a novel set during Algeria's civil war between the government and Islamists in the 1990s. His main rival was Burundi-born Gaël Faye, who was Monday handed the prix Renaudot, another coveted prize.

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Mary Surratt, the building’s owner, would become the first woman executed by the US federal government

Sudan’s brutal civil war shows no signs of slowing, with reports of escalating atrocities and rampant sexual violence threatening to destroy entire communities. Harrowing accounts from a UN report detail widespread abuses, with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) implicated in a surge of attacks targeting women and children.

“Of course, we would first hope nothing happens, but we are prepared to do whatever we're called upon to do,” says CEO Sheldon Yellen

Political violence is hardly new to America. Since the country’s inception, gunmen have shaped its political landscape, from the Civil War to the Ku Klux Klan, to high-profile assassinations and the bombing of federal buildings. Yet the threat of political violence has deepened in recent years and intensified during the…

Learn about the alarming prevalence of sexual violence in Sudan amid the civil war crisis, highlighting the urgent need for humanitarian intervention.

Last August, a foundation stone laying ceremony was held in Brampton, Ont. for a Tamil genocide monument in the city. The memorial’s architectural design was selected from among 100,000 submissions and finalized by the National Council of Canadian Tamils in 2022.

Learn about the intense opposition faced by Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election and the parallels to today's political climate.

South Carolina plans to erect its first-ever statue dedicated to an African American Civil War hero after years of debate.

Learn about the historic moment as South Carolina prepares to honor Robert Smalls, a Civil War hero, with its first individual statue for an African Americ...