Ironically, on the very day the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon was announced, a new round of violence erupted in Syria.

Georgia’s parliamentary election in late October was one of the most controversial and important elections in the country's ...

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The movie begins in the distant future, 2125, after man has colonised most of the solar system and is still desperate to move ...

Azerbaijan was selected this year to host the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29). A mix of international climate experts, ...

Donald Trump, the newly elected US President, may not like Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, but that does not mean he ...

The genius of the original Gladiator (2000) was really twofold. One is that it wasn’t about anything in particular, and so ...

The ethnic diversity in the Netherlands would not tolerate a sooty Black Pete (zwarte piet). […] ...

The ethnic diversity in the Netherlands would not tolerate a sooty Black Pete (zwarte piet). This player is given a stereotypical image of dark-skinned people: black and subordinate to a white person, ...

It took some time, but I finally got around to watching the original Scandinavian screen version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (as the Millennium TV series). As nasty, moody and twisted as it is, ...