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Despite widespread poverty, a decade-long civil war, and now recently, a devastating earthquake, Nepal has made significant strides in the fight for equality.
We've developed technologies that can send signals into space and humans to the moon, but we've also developed technologies that can destroy the environment, that can wage war with weapons and biological terrorism.
I was in Baghdad, covering the war in Iraq.
We were just a few journalists in the Palestine Hotel, and, as happens in war, the fighting began to approach outside our windows.
And then, the war was over.
You went to war, came back; you're fine."
And I really wanted to do something about Syrian refugee kids, because children have been the worst affected by the Syrian civil war.
[The civil war in Syria may seem far away] [until you experience it yourself.]
300 years later, in 1066, the Norman conquest brought war again to the British Isles.
And this was the time of the Balkan Wars, and I wanted to create some very strong, charismatic image, something that could serve for any war at any time, because the Balkan Wars are now finished, but there's always some war, somewhere.
The Land of Pi had been ruled by the numbers as anarcho-syndicalist commune, each number with a vote, but, one powerful number from what we'll call the Imperial Senate, engineered a war between some robot things and the knights of the kingdom, and then installed himself as Supreme Emperor, and then Puff the Magic Digit Dragon ate him, and a princess or two, and, well, all the other numbers in the Land of Pi actually.
Towards the end of war, as the main roads detoured through Laos, it only took one week.
Making laws is the primary function of the legislative branch, but it is also responsible for approving federal judges and justices, passing the national budget, and declaring war.
World War II was a tremendous incentive to arm ourselves in a war against fish.
Or the Gallup Poll that showed that seven in 10 Americans believed that a nuclear war would happen, and that at least 50 percent of our population was going to be killed.
It wasn't very effective, but, at the end of the war, both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. had captured the technology and the scientists that had developed it and began using them for their own projects.
Since the establishment of the United Nations, wars of aggression have been outlawed and multilateral conventions refer to armed conflict instead of war.
Would this cyber assassination constitute an act of war?
And would their retaliation be considered an act of war?
Do they constitute war crimes against humanity?
Because war has been with us for so long, we have laws to deal with figuring out who should be held accountable for their actions in combat.
Commandeering civilian planes and using them as weapons, dropping atomic bombs, the use of gas chambers or poisonous gas in conflict, all of these actions, if committed, constitute acts of war and war crimes under customary international law and the Hague conventions.
The war in Syria has been happening for five years.
They all finished college during World War II, and then most went off to serve in the war.
When the missionary, Bartolomé de las Casas, visited the island, he wrote, 'From 1494 to 1508, over 3,000,000 people had perished from war, slavery and the mines.
They viewed the people they sold not as fellow Africans but criminals, debtors, or prisoners of war from rival tribes.
Slavery replaced other criminal sentences, and capturing slaves became a motivation for war, rather than its result.
The real-life seeds of war were sewn by the death of King Edward III in 1377.
York's criticism of their inept handling of the war against France led to his exclusion from court and transfer to Ireland.
And by marrying Elizabeth of York, elder sister of the disappeared Princes, the newly crowned Henry VII joined the two roses, finally ending nearly a century of war.
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