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In 1919, France declared 1200 sq km area as Zone Rouge after World War 1. No one lives there even after a century and the battlefield turned into a forestFrance's Zone Rouge is still off-limits due to the devastating impact of World War I. Unexploded shells and remnants of chemical warfare li...- Today in History, February 21: Civil rights activist Malcolm X shot deadToday in History, February 21: In 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published “The Communist Manifesto” in London.
- Conflict pollution, washed-up landmines and military emissions - here's how war trashes the environmentArmed conflicts not only result in human suffering but also cause significant environmental damage. Artillery strikes, rockets, and landmin...
- Extreme heat sparks wildfires, health warningsFirefighters battled blazes in parts of Greece and the Canary Islands while Spain issued heat alerts and some children in Italy's Sardinia ...
- Soils of war: The toxic legacy for Ukraine's breadbasketThe farm bears the scars of Russian shelling and unexploded ordnance riddles the fields but it's the less visible damage to Ukraine's famou...
- New drone footage shows scale of Bakhmut's destructionNew video footage of Bakhmut shot from the air with a drone for The Associated Press shows how the longest battle of the year-long Russian ...
- Is it green, or forever toxic? Nuclear rift at climate talksAs negotiators plot out how to fuel the world while also reducing carbon emissions at climate talks in Scotland, nuclear power is a central...
- Blackstone’s Perry says private equity must do more on diversityThe largest alternative asset manager, which recruited from just nine schools in 2015, now searches for future employees at 44 of them, inc...
- Nazi-looted French painting put on display in search for rightful ownerThe small untitled artwork by French painter Nicolas Rousseau is back in France.
- View: Statue debate is giving us a more rounded history lessonIndians are realising that history is much more than what politically correct textbooks revealed.
- Vice President Venkaiah Naidu inaugurates first India-built war memorial in FranceThe announcement to construct the memorial was made by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj during her last visit to Paris in June 2018.
- Movie review: Edge of TomorrowThis pretty much sums up the plot of Tom Cruise’s new action science fiction flick Edge of Tomorrow.
- Montepellier a city of cafesMontpellier is less well known than Marseille but offers much the same delights of the fabled Mediterranean coast.
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