The UN had plans to build a city that would serve as its headquarters and the world's capital. A World War II Scituate spy base was key.

Here are the key developments on the 1,055th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles travelled up to 250km (155 miles) before ...

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(Nairobi) – Governments in Central Africa suppressed civil and political rights, especially in the context of elections, with impunity in 2024, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report ...

Colonel Stirling is credited with taking his elite, handpicked crew of fighters deep, deep behind German lines in the North African ... by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, whose Afrika Korps were ...

SNSB and LMU Paleontologists have identified a new species of predatory dinosaur from the Cretaceous period in North Africa, about 95 million years old. What makes this discovery so special is ...

In a 1989 meeting, Saddam and his officials discuss the unraveling of the Eastern Bloc while speculating about the future of European integration and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ... the ...

At least 78 dead bodies have been retrieved from a discontinued gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water supplies for months, in what trade unions called a “horrific ...

“The civic organisation in the North West is ready to open criminal ... Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s leading news and information websites bringing ...

The tense stand-off has spotlighted the surge in unlawful mining and the inability of South Africa, once the world’s top gold producer, to tackle entrenched organised crime in a country where ...

Why do we refer to “north” as north? There are several reasons. First, most of the world's population lives in the northern hemisphere. The magnetic compass, a crucial navigation tool during ...