Meet Locusta, the most feared poisoner in ancient Rome—possibly the world’s first recorded serial killer. Employed by Nero and his mother Agrippina, she helped orchestrate the deaths of political ...

Can the vast and sparsely populated African country translate its renewable power potential into national development?

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As global conflicts intensify—from airstrikes in Iran to the war in Ukraine—Guam stands once again at the center of U.S.

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With the US joining Israel in strikes on Iran, we take a look at where you might want to head if the conflict escalates.

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The ideologues of Iran’s Islamic Revolution believe that the return of the Mahdi is tied to Israel’s destruction. The Mahdi, in Shia Islam, is a messianic figure—roughly comparable to the Messiah in ...

It's now largely forgotten that in the early 1900s, nearly a third of the Arabian Peninsula was under British India.

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On Shattered Lands, his book about the five partitions of the Indian Empire and the many forgotten stories attached to them ...

But here we are. If Texas Republicans don’t redraw the map, they will buck Trump but remain true to the politics of ...