DIEN BIEN PHU, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam on Tuesday celebrated the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu in which the French colonial army was defeated by Vietnamese troops, marking the end of ...

May 7, 2024, marked the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, when Vietnamese troops defeated the French colonial army, ending almost a century of French colonial rule. A commemoration ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Japan’s prime minister expressed sympathy for the suffering of Korean forced laborers during Japan’s colonial rule, as he and his South Korean counterpart on Sunday renewed ...

Anne Irfan receives funding from the British Academy to research the origins of international refugee and mobility policies. Israel’s parliament has voted to significantly shrink the power of the ...

Today March 6, Ghana celebrates its independence day. This historic event marked the end of the colonial era in Ghana and was a significant moment in the broader movement for decolonization across ...

Throughout history, empires have survived only as long as they could project their power. This power could be real or imagined, but it must be believable to its subjects. In 1942, the British Empire ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby recently visited the site of a brutal massacre that happened in 1919 under the British colonial rule in India and offered his personal apologies.

The energy and joy demonstrated at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago is being felt also in Puerto Rico, where Puerto Ricans see Vice President Kamala Harris as a leader who can help end ...

When Sergey Lavrov addressed the Second Ministerial Conference of the Russia–Africa Partnership Forum in Cairo on 19–20 December 2025, his remarks unsettled a diplomatic consensus sustained by ...