For months, the BBC had fought for access to the island - the largest of the Chagos Archipelago. We wanted to cover a historic court case being held over the treatment of Sri Lankan Tamils ...

The rhyming Sinhala phrase Rata Anurata and Tamil phrase Naadu Anuravodu captured the imagination of voters during Sri Lanka’s smoothly conducted 9th presidential election. Election monitors from ...

The Chagos islands, in the Indian Ocean, were governed under UK colonial rule from the island of Mauritius. The Chagossians, an Indigenous people, are the descendants of enslaved people and ...

So, let us investigate this little wonderment of a possibility. If Kamala Harris moves into the White House in 2025, will the supreme Court majority find a creative way to resend their customized ...

Calling all Parrotheads! Red’s Corner in Southern Pines will host its second annual BuffettFest on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2 to 5 p.m. Red’s Corner will be decked out in Margaritaville-style ...

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Meet Louise! She is a sweet, 1.5-year-old, 50 pound low rider bully who was rescued after getting her leg caught in wire fence. Fully healed, she’s now ready for her forever home. Lou Lou loves ...

Between 1786 and 1788, he surveyed areas including the Chagos archipelago (near south of Maldives), Diamond Harbour near Calcutta, and the Hooghly River. One of Blair’s most significant undertakings ...

By the late 1780s, he had participated in a number of survey missions, including those in the Chagos archipelago, Diamond Harbour located in the south of Calcutta, and along the Hooghly River. In ...

VANCOUVER - The past two weeks haven’t been easy for the Toronto Argonauts. First, there was the narrow loss to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Then the team dropped a decision to the Ottawa Redblacks.