The nature of kingship in William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth follows the events that occur during Macbeth’s unlawful rise to the throne......The themes of greed, arrogance and excessive political ambition are still, very relevant to the world today. Shakespeare got it right - his story of Macbeth still applies to today's world....
Collateral damage is a general term for deaths, injuries, or other damage inflicted on an unintended target. In American military terminology, it is used for the incidental killing or wounding of non-combatants or damage to non-combatant property during an attack on a legitimate military target.
Mosul, Iraq….March 26, 2017…..”The US-led coalition bombing ISIL positions in Iraq has admitted that it carried out air raids last week at a location in west Mosul where officials and residents say scores of civilians were killed……The acknowledgement on Saturday came hours after the United Nations said it was "stunned" by the reported deaths of civilians in suspected coalition air raids in Mosul's ISIL-held al-Jadida district on March 17……An initial review of strike data ... indicates that the coalition struck [ISIL] fighters and equipment, March 17, in west Mosul at the location corresponding to allegations of civilian casualties," the US military's Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement on Saturday……Iraq says 200 bodies pulled from rubble in Mosul The coalition said that it had struck the area "at the request of the Iraqi security forces" and was investigating to determine the facts and the validity of reports of civilian casualties…… it took about a week for the coalition to acknowledge the air raids…….About 200 people are thought to have died in that strike alone," our correspondent added. "These reports of a high toll of civilian casualties were first given by the civilians who actually managed to get out of western Mosul."
San Diego…February 23….A Mexican man has leaped off a bridge and killed himself near the Tijuana-San Diego border crossing hours after being deported……Guadalupe Olives Valencia reportedly screamed he did not want to return to Mexico before leaping to his death on Tuesday. The 44-year-old father of three had worked as a gardener in California…..Authorities are investigating his death as suicide,
Yemen….January 29……Donald Trump authorised air strike that killed eight-year-old American girl 'without sufficient intelligence’……officials say ‘almost everything went wrong’…..The US military is investigating whether more civilians were killed in a raid on al-Qaeda in Yemen at the weekend, in the first operation authorised by President Donald Trump as commander in chief…..After initially denying that there were any civilian casualties, American officials said they were assessing reports that women and children had died in the attack…..Trump called the raid “successful” and said that it had captured “important intelligence that will assist the U.S. in preventing terrorism against its citizens and people around the world.” He also lamented the loss of the American service member “in our fight against the evil of radical Islamic terrorism.”…..Yemeni officials said that at least eight women and seven children, ages 3 to 13, had been killed in the raid. Qaeda supporters said that Mr. Awlaki’s young daughter was among the dead and denied that any senior Qaeda leaders had been killed….
Warplanes were bombing a rebel-held town in Syria for a second day amid increasing international tensions over an apparent chemical attack that killed more than 70 people.....Bashar al-Assad’s government has categorically denied using poisonous gases in Khan Sheikhoun or possessing the banned munitions, while his ally Russia claimed Syrian jets conducting legitimate strikes had struck a "rebel weapons facility".....Major General Igor Konashenkov, from the Russian defence ministry, claimed a "destroyed warehouse" was used to produce and store shells containing toxic gas to be sent to Iraq."