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1 week ago |
legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne
Attacks on clinics, hospitals and health-care workers in conflict zones numbered more than 3,600 in 2024, a 62 per cent increase in two years, says a new report. More than a third of the attacks targeted Gaza or the West Bank; hundreds more were recorded in Ukraine, Lebanon, Myanmar and Sudan.
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2 weeks ago |
legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne
The American president outraged a host of Allied nations recently when he claimed the United States “won World War 2” and should be celebrating the fact. Donald Trump made the statement after a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron who, he said, told him France was “celebrating our victory over the Germans.”“Oh, that’s wonderful,” Trump said a week after VE-Day on May 8. “Now, we don’t take credit for what we do. And I said, what the hell?
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3 weeks ago |
legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne
Stephen J. Thorne An award-winning journalist, editor and photographer. He has reported on the downfall of South African apartheid and from war fronts in Kosovo and Afghanistan. All Posts
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1 month ago |
legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne
Archeologists say puncture wounds and other bite marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in England are the first hard evidence that gladiators fought animals—in this case a lion—in Europe. The evidence suggests the man was killed during a gladiator show or execution, and that the big cat gnawed on his pelvis or was dragging him across the arena about the time he died.
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1 month ago |
legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne
Nestled away on the top two floors of a four-storey stone-and-brick building overlooking the St. John’s waterfront, just a few metres from the Newfoundland National War Memorial, is a piece of Second World War history unlike any other. Fifty-nine precarious steps up the back of the former warehouse, the Seagoing Officers’ Club, established by Captain Rollo Mainguy—a B.C. native commanding Canadian navy destroyers in the British colony of Newfoundland—is the stuff of legend.
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