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The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims As of the end of July there were 18,457 children named on the long official list of Palestinian victims of Israel’s war in Gaza. Over almost two years, that is equivalent to bombs, bullets and shells killing a boy or girl every hour of every day. In reality the deaths are not spaced out so evenly. Siblings, cousins and playmates are often killed together, by an airstrike or artillery shell. Even children shot by snipers or quadcopters are sometimes brought into hospitals in groups, doctors say. Continue reading...

高市早苗氏は自民党の新総裁に選ばれた後、党所属の国会議員を前にしたあいさつで「私自身もワーク・ライフ・バランス（WLB）という言葉を捨てる。働いて、働いて、働いて、働いて、働いていく」と述べた。　こ…

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China’s Date Debate is an in-depth investigation of the Chinese Communist Party’s remapping of China’s World War II timeline from eight years (1937-–1945) to fourteen years (1931–1945). Instead of the...

In Ostasien gibt es kein gemeinsames Verständnis davon, was im Zweiten Weltkrieg geschehen ist.

Eighty years after Japan was defeated, a wave of Chinese films about the occupation are fuelling memory and anger.