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May 8, 2024 · Nanjing Massacre, mass killing and ravaging of Chinese citizens and capitulated soldiers by soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army after its seizure of Nanjing, China, in December 1937 during the Sino-Japanese War that preceded World War II. Casualty estimates for the massacre range from 100,000 to more than 300,000.
May 22, 2024 · Ireland, Norway and Spain announced on Wednesday they will formally recognize a Palestinian state in a move that drew swift rebuke from Israel, with its foreign ministry ordering the immediate ...
5 days ago · After Norway and Spain, Ireland too formally recognized Palestine, causing Israel's furious response. The move was hailed by Norwegian and Spanish officials as historic and essential for peace ...
6 days ago · Norway’s recognition of #Palestine as a state today represents a milestone in Norwegian-Palestinian relations.
May 17, 2024 · Pottawatomie Massacre, (May 24–25, 1856), murder of five men from a proslavery settlement on Pottawatomie Creek, Franklin county, Kan., U.S., by an antislavery party led by the abolitionist John Brown and composed largely of men of his family. The victims were associated with the Franklin County
6 days ago · Thirteen out of 21 people killed in the latest Israeli military attack on tent cities in southern Rafah’s so-called “safe area” of al-Mawasi were women and girls as deadly strikes on ...
May 9, 2024 · Sharpeville massacre, incident in the Black township of Sharpeville, near Vereeniging, South Africa, on March 21 1960, in which police fired on a crowd of Black people, killing or wounding some 250 of them. It was one of the first and most violent demonstrations against apartheid in South Africa.
