CHRISTIANITY today is the world’s largest faith — embraced by more than 2 billion people. From open democracies to closed regimes, every continent has been touched by its influence. Yet Christianity ...

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Ukraine’s navy says it has struck an “elite” Russian special unit located on a Black Sea oil rig. An anti-tank missile crew was killed in the strike and reconnaissance equipment was destroyed at the ...

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Rheinmetall AG moved ahead with plans for a Lithuanian ammunition plant, marking the biggest defense investment in the ...

Ottoman mosques still dot Eastern Europe, particularly in countries like Albania where ... Historian Jeffrey Burton Russell ...

In the riverside town of Vidin in Bulgaria, I was briefly king of the castle. I had the medieval citadel to myself. Looming ...

The raid on the Louvre is far from the first museum heist. But several factors have combined to make Europe fertile ground for cultural thefts.

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Socialism has a well-earned reputation as a secular, rational movement. But not all socialists throughout history were quite ...

In 2020, she was appointed by then-Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg as part of NATO’s Reflection Group, a working group of ten high-level experts that ...

From medieval warlord to feminist icon, the vampire has survived every age by reinventing itself — feeding on our fears, our ...