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A few months ago, US President Donald Trump raised with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa the possibility of sending Syrian troops to Lebanon to help…

When the Swedish Academy opened its familiar doors in Stockholm this week, its Permanent Secretary, Ingrid Carlberg, emerged to tell the assembled…

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On the afternoon of 22 November 1963, US President John F. Kennedy was travelling through Dealey Plaza in Dallas in an open car when gunshots rang…

It is not simply the reputation of Germany’s BND foreign intelligence service that finds itself under scrutiny following the dramatic arrest of…

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Germany has appointed its first far-right speaker of a regional parliament since the Second World War, after Tobias Rausch of Alternative für…

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In the far north of Siberia, where the ground remains frozen for most of the year and some facilities lie hundreds of kilometres from the nearest…