In a conversation with pianist Lara Downes, the New Yorker staff writer says music in America will keep evolving as long as the country keeps an open door to new people and new sounds.

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The Filiki Eteria Museum in Odessa, Ukraine is a beacon of Hellenism, as it is where the Greek War of Independence was planned.

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A U.S. military refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday, in an incident U.S. Central Command said involved another aircraft but was not the result of hostile or friendly fire. In a ...

Explore five essential books that explain global geopolitics, power dynamics, and international conflicts shaping the modern world today.

The Tehran regime has weaponised geography in retaliation for the attacks by the US and Israel ...

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The White House said the US Navy has not escorted a ship through the Strait of Hormuz, following a now-deleted tweet by energy secretary Chris Wright claiming that it had. The mix ...

The population of the South Caucasus is around 17–18 million people combined. Azerbaijan has about 10 million. Georgia around ...