UN rights chief Volker Turk has described the horror unfolding in the north of Gaza as the “darkest moment” of Israel's war on Gaza, warning Friday…

The Nobel Prize for Literature is rich with remarkable anecdotes. One of the most notable is the story of Russian writer Boris Pasternak, who in 1958…

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A diplomatic row between India and Canada over the murder of a prominent supporter of a Sikh separatist movement has boiled over, with tit-for-tat…

Israel’s campaign to destroy the military, security and financial infrastructure of Hezbollah in Lebanon has also crippled the economic and social…

Drug production and abuse have wreaked havoc in all corners of the world. Today, the drugs that derive from the poppy create an industry worth around…

If you were to cut an opium poppy seed pod, it would exude a latex or creamy emulsion from the seed capsules. If you were to dry that latex, you…