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Israel and the United States say that their attacks on Iran are for the benefit of its women. Iranian feminists couldn’t ...

Most Americans have at least a passing awareness that the United States controls a slice of land in Cuba called Guantanamo ...

THE Freedom Charter was adopted in Kliptown on June 26 1955, 70 years ago. Thousands of delegates travelled from across South ...

For decades Iran has denied accusations by Western leaders that it is seeking nuclear arms. It has been a party to the Treaty ...

Nkrumah was a towering anti-colonial leader, pan-African thinker, first PM & president of Ghana. Post-independence, he was ...

Though officials in Washington, including Vice President JD Vance, rushed to clarify that regime change was not formal policy ...

North Korea next week will open a signature coastal tourist site that it says will usher in a new era in its tourism industry, though there is no word on when the country wil ...

While not colonised by European empires, Iran's oil reserves meant it became a key focus for British and Western imperial ambitions.

Trump and tech capitalists like Elon Musk are trying to become kingpins of a largely unregulated financial system.