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Russia relationship has survived, out of shared instincts for sovereignty. It remains one of the world’s most quietly ...

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Japan’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi — a Thatcher-inspired conservative with heavy metal tastes and a passion ...

Fiddler 2025 turns out to be a bold, imaginative interpretation which leans into the original’s unusual structure for a musical in that all the upbeat, cheery stuff takes place in the first half ...

There are several people like Ishi alive today. One of them is a child. In the medieval era, the Livonian language was spoken widely on the Latvian coast, but it’s spent the past thousand years being ...

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While there is no reason to believe a word Trump or Netanyahu say, the background to the current ceasefire is that Israel is ...

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