To appreciate the greatness of Margaret Thatcher — as this excellent biography makes possible — you must go back to Grantham where she lived over her parents’ grocery shop. There was no hereditary ...

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“You have to look at Putin and Russia as an expansionist power,” Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, President Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, recently acknowledged. “He wants to re-establish ...

October 3 is a public holiday all over Germany commemorating the reunification of the once divided nation. But why was Germany divided in the first place? And when was it reunited? DW has the answers.

His death is the latest in a long line of mystery deaths among Russia’s elite A RUSSIAN multi-millionaire married to a beauty queen has been found dead in bizarre circumstances after fleeing a £37 ...

It’s no good trying to sugarcoat the troubled history of the United Nations. This paradoxical organization emerged from the ruined cities and gas chambers of World War II with the explicit goal of ...