In the ruins of the captured southern city, the Kremlin has opened a tribute to a feared henchman of Joseph Stalin.

Many of his compatriots in the fight against Putin’s authoritarian regime did not survive. Opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, ...

Zimbabwe faces economic collapse, political repression, and daily hardship. With hyperinflation and mass unemployment.

Call of Duty Warzone Season 2 Reloaded will deliver over a dozen quality of life changes and a fix for an "exploit" that's ...

Shining City’ Farewell Address, 1989 My fellow Americans: This is the 34th time I’ll speak to you from the Oval Office and the last. We’ve been together 8 years now, and soon it’ll be time for me to ...

The Gulag was the government agency in charge of the vast Soviet network of prisons and labor camps that came into being shortly after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in 1917. Reaching its peak ...

The Trump administration has warmly greeted an offer from El Salvador to detain both deported undocumented migrants and ...

The president’s sweeping clemency for Capitol rioters and his administration’s ongoing removal of career national security ...

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(There are also those in Trump’s orbit who are joking, one hopes, about whom they might throw in the hypothetical gulag.) Whereas many of those branded most prominently with the scarlet R of ...

The unearthing of misdemeanours from the past is one of the biggest headaches of the Abela administration. It will not be easy to address every single issue, which is why when a problem is allowed to ...

The Trump administration has warmly greeted an offer from El Salvador to detain both deported undocumented migrants and criminal U.S. citizens in a sprawling high-security prison that human rights ...