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# war - Thursday 16 May, 2013
At least 15 people have been killed and dozens wounded in the attack in the Afghan capital.
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# war - Wednesday 15 May, 2013
Up to 200,000 women from Korea, China, the Philippines and elsewhere were forcibly drafted into brothels catering to the Japanese military in territories occupied by Japan during WWII.
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# war - Tuesday 14 May, 2013
The controversial mayor claimed that the forced prostitution of approximately 200,000 women during World War II was necessary to “maintain discipline” in the ranks.
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# war - Tuesday 7 May, 2013
While we can’t definitively rule out the possibility that the US attacking Iraq and Libya to seize control of their oil supplies, when all factors are considered one thing is missing from this hypothesis: a compelling reason, writes Scott Fitzsimons.
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# war - Saturday 4 May, 2013
After days of online controversy, Michael Jorgensen says his documentary Unclaimed has found a Vietnam vet who was left behind after the war.
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# war - Sunday 28 April, 2013
Filmmaker says John Robertson, now 76, can no longer speak English, remember his birthday or the names of his American children.
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# war - Friday 26 April, 2013
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat” – the Churchill quotation chosen for the note.
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# war - Thursday 25 April, 2013
The monument honours “all those of Irish birth and heritage who fought and died in the service of the United Nations and those civilians of Irish birth and heritage who died side by side with the Korean people 1950-1953″.
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Tens of thousands have died in the ongoing, bloody conflict in Syria to date – and those who remain live under constant threat of violence. Midwife Cathy Janssens writes about trying to bring new life into the world in such unstable circumstances.
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# war - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
The violence began with clashes at a protest site in northern Iraq after security forces moved in.
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Ireland can no longer afford, financially or morally, to go along with the EU’s current hopeless policy in Bosnia. Now is an opportune time for a fundamental rethink of how the EU should deal with the political situation there, writes Patrick Nulty.
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# war - Thursday 18 April, 2013
It is believed that three children are among the dead.
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# war - Thursday 11 April, 2013
Iran’s atomic ambitions, instability in north and west Africa, and climate change will also be up for discussion.
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# war - Wednesday 10 April, 2013
On this date 15 years ago, the Good Friday Agreement was signed. While we have come along way, we shouldn’t take the peace we have for granted, writes Ben English.
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# war - Sunday 7 April, 2013
Eight militants also died in the attack and six women were injured.
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# war - Friday 29 March, 2013
People are trying to sell off electronic devices to make money – but there isn’t enough electricity to make them work.
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It’s true Northern Ireland has come a long way over the last fifteen years, but we cannot afford to hang the ‘mission accomplished’ banner over the peace process, writes David McCann.
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# war - Tuesday 26 March, 2013
A global arms trade treaty could save some of the estimated 200,000 people killed every year as a result of armed conflict – but its success depends on the US President holding his nerve, writes Colm O’Gorman.
If President Obama can hold his nerve.
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# war - Saturday 23 March, 2013
Ten years ago this week the United States-led “coalition of the willing” launched the Iraq War. If we’ve learned anything from the Iraq experience it’s that governments should refrain from biting off more than they can chew, says Scott Fitzsimmons.
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# war - Thursday 21 March, 2013
Croatia play Serbia for the first time as independent nations in a World Cup qualifying tie tomorrow
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# war - Sunday 17 March, 2013
Including combatants on all sides and as-yet undocumented civilian fatalities that figure could be as high as 174,000, according to the Iraq Body Count organisation.
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# war - Friday 15 March, 2013
In a statement, the main opposition National Coalition said: “The large challenges still before us only increase our determination to overthrow the Assad regime”.
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UK military personnel deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan with direct combat exposure were 53 per cent more likely to commit a violent offence than men serving in a non-combat role, according to the Lancet.
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# war - Wednesday 13 March, 2013
Save the Children said that both sides of the conflict are using boys as soldiers and even human shields.
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# war - Tuesday 12 March, 2013
Two years to the day since the conflict began, the UN says there’s a generation of children who have known only fighting.
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# war - Sunday 10 March, 2013
Anti-war group Shannonwatch said Ireland’s record in UN peacekeeping has been “tarnished” by complicity in the CIA rendition programme.
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# war - Friday 8 March, 2013
Seven million people have died as a result of war in DR Congo since 1998 – making it the one of the deadliest conflicts since World War II, said the Minister for Trade and Development.
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# war - Sunday 3 March, 2013
The Red Cross is on the ground at refugee camps in Jordan, where people – mainly women and children – who fled Syria await an uncertain future.
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# war - Wednesday 27 February, 2013
Yesterday Iran and six world powers met for talks on Tehran’s controversial nuclear programme.
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# war - Friday 22 February, 2013
France sent in its troops in January to help the Malian army oust Islamist militants who last year captured the desert north of the country.
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Almost 60 people were killed in the blast that rocked the city with many children among those wounded.
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# war - Wednesday 20 February, 2013
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a staunch supporter of drone use, has openly cited a number that exceeds some independent estimates of the total death toll.
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# war - Thursday 31 January, 2013
Winter Soldier will have three screenings at the IFI this weekend.
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# war - Tuesday 22 January, 2013
The two countries sought to paper-over tensions from the euro crisis when their leaders kicked off events marking 50 years of post-war reconciliation.
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# war - Sunday 13 January, 2013
The Leinster scrum-half declared that his team are ready for a way against the Chiefs in Exeter.
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# war - Sunday 6 January, 2013
Each side has blamed the other for the flare-up and Pakistan has said one of its soldiers was killed in the exchange.
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# war - Thursday 3 January, 2013
The landmark case is being watched closely by human rights activists in Nepal.
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# war - Friday 28 December, 2012
The Government was worried that an arrangement between RTÉ and BBC could lead to a national embarrassment.
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# war - Tuesday 25 December, 2012
Emotional for different reasons – some tragic, others victorious – these images touched us during 2012.
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