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Han Kang’s 'We Do Not Part' offers new look at South Korea’s past

The Nobel Prize-winning novel takes readers on a journey through the landscape of memory and pain, revisiting an evil committed three-quarters of a century ago to illuminate the present

Samir Qasimi 24 November 2024

A woman touches a photo of the victims of a mass killing attack outside Wat Rat Samakee temple in Uthai Sawan, north eastern Thailand, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022. A former police officer burst into a day care center in northeastern Thailand on Thursday, killing dozens of preschoolers and teachers before shooting more people as he fled. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

Families Leave Offerings for Children Slain at Thai Day Care

Families offered flowers and dolls, popcorn and juice boxes to children massacred at a day care center in Thailand, part of a Buddhist ceremony held Sunday just paces from where the slaughter began…

AP 09 October 2022

Tributes and offerings are placed near the coffins of victims at Wat Rat Samakee temple following a mass shooting in the town of Uthai Sawan, Nong Bua Lam Phu province, Thailand October 8, 2022. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

Prayers, Sorrow at Temples as Thailand Mourns Children Slain in Massacre

Hundreds of people gathered in temples in northeast Thailand on Saturday, offering candles, toys and prayers to mark the lives of more than 30 mostly child victims of a gun and knife rampage that…

08 October 2022

The words “Here we drown Algerians” scrawled on the embankment of the River Seine.

Black Mark in France’s History…Will Paris Apologize?

October 17, 1961 marks the anniversary of one of the worst events in the history of France and Algeria. On this day, France committed a massacre against Algerian demonstrators, who went out in…

Khaled Saad Zaghloul 29 October 2021

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