President-elect Donald Trump revealed several more appointments on Thursday to his incoming administration. As has been ...

Angela Merkel hired no fewer than eight English language translators to work on the German text of her new autobiography, Freedom, which is astonishing when one considers how little of ...

When Greece’s left-wing Syriza elected Stefanos Kasselakis — a former registered Republican and businessman — as its leader, ...

Former US President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100, is remembered in China for bringing an end to decades of hostility and establishing diplomatic relations with Beijing – at the ...

China has built or expanded more than 200 specialized detention facilities nationwide to interrogate suspects ensnared in Xi Jinping’s widening anti-corruption drive, a CNN investigation has found, as ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) argued that 2024 would end with the last Christmas "under Democrat communist control."In a ...

In Southern Africa, where democracy remains relatively stable, elections held in 2024 saw long-governing liberation parties struggling to survive. Across Africa, power struggles involving military ...

Lee’s experience served as the background to his books on conservatism, the Republican Party, Communism, and the Cold War. The fact that he rarely, if ever, used the personal pronoun in his ...

County Council on Tuesday appointed six people to a commission that will review the salaries of the council and the county executive. The County Council initially agreed that the commission, which the ...

In the messy post-World War II days, when the Soviet Union was triumphant, yet destroyed, with major cities in wreckage and 27 million dead from the conflict’s carnage, Anatoly Tarasov got a strange ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin awards the Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov with the title of Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation during a ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow ...

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