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October 3, 2025, will mark 90 years since Italy invaded Ethiopia. The second Italo-Ethiopian War that followed lasted until May, 1936 and resulted in Ethiopia’s subjection to Italian rule. Benito Mussolini, Italy’s fascist dictator, sought vengeance from Italy’s humiliating defeat in Ethiopia forty years earlier. More importantly, Ethiopia provided Italy a critical link between its other East African territories – […]
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Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) – marks the day of World War Two (WW2) when fighting against Nazi Germany in Europe came to an end. In the UK Monday 5th May is a bank holiday and the day will feature a flyover of Buckingham Palace by the famous Red Arrows and other military aircraft to […]
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World War One, also known as “The Great War” and “The War to End All Wars”, unofficially ended on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, when an armistice agreement earlier in the day between Germany and the Allied powers ended hostilities between the warring nations. The official treaty ending […]
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by Giovanni Mereghetti In the early spring of 2022, seventeen families unexpectedly arrived at the former Convent of the Annunciata in Abbiategrasso, a well-known town west of Milan, the capital of Lombardy, Italy. The fifty-one people, including fourteen minors, weren’t ordinary people. These were people fleeing the burning cities of Ukraine: Mykolaiv, Kherson, Lviv, Odessa, […]
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24th February marks one year since Russia invaded Ukraine to begin what it called a ‘special military operation’. With the Russian invasion widely condemned by many countries and their peoples, the resulting war as Ukrainians defend themselves, has seen many casualties and a huge displacement of Ukrainian people fleeing their homes to seek shelter and safety […]
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As of April 4, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has recorded more than 1,400 civilian deaths during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This figure includes nearly 120 children who have lost their lives. As Ukrainian forces continue to claim territory back from retreating Russian forces near Kiev, these numbers will certainly grow. Indeed, the mayor […]
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