Hezbollah at crossroads after blows from war weaken group
Hezbollah is known for being a powerful militia and is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by countries including the UK ...
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From farms to frontlines: The legacy of Otter Tail County nurses in WWI
This article is part two of a three-part series from the archives of the Otter Tail County Historical Society, showcasing how ...
‘I’m here! Can you hear me?’ One family’s story of death in Gaza
We never thought such massive attacks would happen again ... We thought the fighting had exhausted both sides’ ...
80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs
An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...
Carmen Vazquez Rivera of Tallahassee: War veteran, nurse, Latina pioneer
The life of Carmen Vazquez Rivera – a World War II and Korean War veteran who died recently at 103 – could be the makings of ...
99-year-old Berks WWII veteran recalls caring for wounded soldiers
When the free world was tearing at the seams, Betty O’Connell did her part to patch it up. In 1945, World War II raged across the Pacific, leaving countless wounded soldiers in dire need of treatment.
Support the SEP in the Australian federal election! Build a socialist movement of the working class against war, austerity and dictatorship!
The Socialist Equality Party is standing candidates in the Australian federal election to build an independent movement of ...
Major Quake Batters Myanmar; High Toll Is Feared as Buildings Topple
The 7.7-magnitude earthquake near Mandalay, in a country already torn by war, was felt across Southeast Asia, and experts ...
‘You could die trying to reach this treatment’: how Israel’s war on Hizbullah has shattered healthcare in south Lebanon
With a fragile ceasefire in place, medics look to repair hospitals and care centres to get services running again ...
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Verna, wartime baby who climbed to the front of crowded classes
Heavily pregnant in July 1944, no matter what Joan Canning told nurses at Goulburn Base Hospital, she was unable ...
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A history of Cambridge women in the nursing professions
As we reflect on the fifth anniversary of the start of the Covid lockdown, and as we mark the end of March as Women’s History Month, History Cambridge looks back on our exploration of women’s roles as ...
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A Journey through Time: Songs that got us through World War Two
The few years leading up to the USA becoming involved in the Second World War were some of the most stressful years in human history. A world that was still ...