In South China, nearly a thousand miles from the civil war areas, rice rose from eighteen million dollars to thirty-six million dollars a picul within a few days.
The expression my country right or wrong—perhaps a misquotation of the American naval officer Stephen Decatur, but also attributed to Carl Schurz—is the extreme form of this belief.
It's playing a major role in the civil war of neighboring Yemen, with Saudi Arabia leading international airstrikes, targeting rebels who were supported by Iran and trying to take control of Yemen.
The Middle Eastern country civil war heated up in 2015 and the U.N. says that at least 7,000 civilians have been killed since then with thousands more injured.
The aim is to generate nine billion dollars to help Syrians uprooted by the country's long running civil war. Imogen Foulkes has more details in this report.
British and French troops land at Murmansk in northern Russia. It's the beginning of Allied intervention in Russia's Civil War, on the side of so-called 'White', or anti-Bolshevik, forces.
American Revolution, War of 1812, U.S. Civil War, or World War I. It was in 1918 during the first World War that the U.S. followed Germany and then Britain in observing Daylight Saving Time.
And the years after the U.S. Civil War, which remains America's most deadly conflicts, a day was set aside to decorate the graves of fallen troops with flowers.
Last show of the week takes us to eastern Africa where the nation of Ethiopia is being torn apart by civil war and the nations around it are calling for a ceasefire.