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"Everybody suffers, including the European Union and Japan ... Even in the European Union people suffer ... If China compromises and surrenders, no one will be the supplier in the world. The next target will be Japan and the European Union....

photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks to the media after his talks with North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 10, 2018.

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Japan, Russia to hold summit on June 29 as territorial row continues

Kyodo 31 May 2019

During the talks, the two agreed to work toward materializing a plan to conduct joint economic activities on a group of disputed islands off Hokkaido, which Japan hopes will help lay the groundwork to resolve the decades-old territorial dispute ... The Soviet Union seized the islands after Japan's surrender in 1945, a move Tokyo claims was illegal ... ....

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The Crittenden-Johnson War Aims Resolution / July 25, 1861

The Tribune Papers 29 May 2019

Union forces there surrendered on April 13, and President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers on April 15 to put down Confederate resistance to the Federal Government ... Twenty-five miles northeast of Manassas Junction in Washington, Union Brig ... If Maryland had seceded, Washington would have been cut off from its loyalist Union States....

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Big inning propels Lady Bears into regional semis

Kingsport Times-News 28 May 2019

After a sluggish start, host Union scored five unearned runs in the fourth inning on the way to a 9-1 victory over Tazewell on Monday in the Region 2D softball quarterfinals ... Union (15-8) advanced to the regional semifinals to face Southwest District No ... Those scoring chances came thanks to four Union errors and three walks surrendered by Duncan....

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Battle for soul of Europe is only beginning

The Irish Times 28 May 2019

The gradual consolidation of nationalist and Eurosceptical parties, even if it does not reach a commanding position, is indicative of a brewing storm over the soul of Europe, over what the European Union really stands for ... The current fracturing of European politics is symptomatic of a tension latent in the European Union since its inception....

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Why Sudan won't hand over former president al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court

The Conversation 28 May 2019

The African Union’s response The African Union (AU) plays a significant role, too. The AU comprises of 55 member states, Sudan being one of them, and functions similarly to the European Union. As some AU member states are also state parties to the Rome Statute, they have a duty to arrest and surrender al-Bashir to the ICC ....

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Foreign Press View: Tsipras, SYRIZA Broke Bad, Took Beating

The National Herald 27 May 2019

Surrendering to the Troika of the European Union-European Central Bank-European Stability Mechanism (EU-ECB-ESM) in the summer of 2015 – after reneging on his own anti-austerity referendum where Greeks backed him – to get a third bailout of 86 billion euros ($96.26 billion) was the beginning of a long-time coming end for him it seemed ... ....

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Stolen letter reveals the sticky business of fine art

Tyler Morning Telegraph 27 May 2019

The team at the Potomack Company auction house knew they had something special. A 1780 letter from Alexander Hamilton to the Marquis de Lafayette ... Given the newfound appreciation of Hamilton (see ... But it was also stolen ... It sat on the desk used by Grant and Lee to sign the surrender papers and was purchased by Gen ... gave it to a widow of a Union soldier....

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Bardstown Cemetery Confederate marker vandalized

Messenger-Inquirer 22 May 2019

Vandals desecrated a Confederate marker in Bardstown Cemetery late last week by what appears to be splashing or throwing red paint on the century-old statue ... Following the South's surrender, the U.S. government relocated Union soldiers' graves to federal cemeteries, and most of the local Union dead from the Bardstown area were moved to Perryville ... ....

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Confederate cemetery marker defaced with red paint

The News-Enterprise 21 May 2019

Vandals desecrated a Confederate marker in Bardstown Cemetery late last week by what appears to be splashing or throwing red paint on the century-old statue ... Following the South’s surrender, the U.S. government relocated Union soldiers’ graves to federal cemeteries and most of the local Union dead from the Bardstown area were moved to Perryville ... ....

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Owner of Victorian home renovates, researches

Hastings Tribune 21 May 2019

Splater and his partner, Austin Karnatz, purchased the 4,000-square-foot house at 514 E. Seventh St. in March, moving there with their two children ... Buy Now ... He was present at the surrender of Confederate General Joe Johnson. He was Chief of Staff of the National Guard and mustered out of the Union Army on June 16, 1864 with the rank of captain. Buy Now....

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Lawmaker refuses to resign despite opposition motion over war remark

Kyodo 20 May 2019

Maruyama drew flak for a comment made when accompanying former Japanese residents of the disputed islands off Hokkaido on a visa-free visit to one of them ... The islands, called the Northern Territories in Japan and the Southern Kurils in Russia, were seized by the Soviet Union following Japan's surrender that ended the war in August 1945 ... ....

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Bardstown Cemetery Confederate monument vandalized

The Kentucky Standard 20 May 2019

Shades of gray. Low election turnout expected Tuesday. Bookfest extended to Monday, Tuesday ... Buy this photo. FORREST BERKSHIRE/The Kentucky Standard ... Following the South’s surrender, the U.S. government relocated Union soldiers’ graves to federal cemeteries, and most of the local Union dead from the Bardstown area were moved to Perryville ... ....