"If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand..."

"Two years before the Korean peninsula erupted in a civil war that saw the North and the South (and the U.S., the United Nations, the Soviet Union and China) engage in a conflict that shaped the post-World War II world, a short, brutal rebellion in the young Korean republic paved the way for the cataclysmic Korean War to come."


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Embrace moderate Islam..

"The leader of Egypt's Coptic Christians has accused the country's president of "negligence" following deadly clashes outside the main cathedral in Cairo."

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"Even a sheet of paper is lighter when two people lift it.."

""No one should be allowed to throw a region and even the whole world into chaos for selfish gains," Mr Xi warned during a speech at the opening of the forum."

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The dream intruders..

"It used to be that what happened in your dreams was your own little secret. But today scientists report for the first time that they’ve successfully decoded details of people’s dreams using brain scans."

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Inverted is good..

"The British Embassy in Colombia made an embarrassing gaffe when it referred to the Falklands Islands using the Argentinian name 'Malvinas'."


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'All' Souls Day..

The Japanese behaved disgracefully during the second world war, this barbarity was specifically allowed free reign on one of the greatest cities of China, only the walls of the old city remain. Hundreds of thousands of civilians, mothers and children were purposely annihilated by Japanese occupying forces in 1937.

The commemoration of the Massacre of Nanjing this year occurs before the Qingming festival. This is a time for Chinese to remember their ancestors and honour those of previous generations by tending to their family tombs.

But with the remembering of those family members that died during a vicious war, is it not disproportionate to forget the many millions that died and disappeared under Mao and communism in peace time?

'Some' of us do...

"Kim Jong Un’s latest threats against the United States may be even more apocalyptic than Kim Jong Il’s. But the Obama administration still believes the young North Korean leader is reading from a page in his father’s playbook."

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You don't need a superpower to be a hero..

“Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment formed We Can Be Heroes in response to the crisis in the Horn of Africa where 8 million people are in need of life-saving food, clean water, healthcare and other services,” DC Entertainment Senior Vice President Amit Desai told Wired.

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The White House Wishes You a Happy April..

Via TIME.