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Fifty years ago, US troops began building a military base on the Chagos Islands, a British territory in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Its inhabitants, who numbered several thousand, were forcibly removed to make way for a naval station. They...

Lee Keath CAIRO - Was it real? It’s all been erased so completely, so much blood has been shed and destruction wreaked over the past decade. The idea that there was a moment when millions across the Middle East wanted freedom and change so much that they took to the streets seems like romantic nostalgia. “It was very brief, man. It was so brief,” said Badr Elbendary, an Egyptian activist. Elbendary was blinded on the third day of his country’s revolt in 2011, whe...