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Narges Mohammadi, who was jailed in November 2021 and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, was punched in the chest by ...

The few optimists in Labour claim that polling numbers aren’t meaningful this far from an election: faced with ...

Suleyman came to the throne in 1520, when he was 26. That may sound young, but he was in good company: Francis I, king of ...

The 400th anniversary of James VI and I’s death has been marked by several new approaches to the reign that gave ...

I n September ​ , a suitcase filled with sculptural odds and ends was discovered beneath a spiral staircase in Louise ...

Pepys himself was remembered, if at all, as a naval administrator who’d had a compulsion for buying up printed paper. The ...

In The Madman’s Library, Edward Brooke-Hitching asked if a work of literature written on a shirt could be called ...

I enrolled at the Islamic University of Gaza in 2022. As I started my second year, I hoped I would do well enough to ...

According to Arthur Schlesinger, Kennedy considered making Walter Lippmann his ambassador to Paris, but Schlesinger told the ...

In a cabinet meeting convened on 7 October 2024 to mark the first anniversary of the Hamas attack, Netanyahu called for the ...

The universe has no centre. What Pynchon has mapped is a world that is continuous and connected, where borders, ...