It was an unlikely romance: he was a Venezuelan revolutionary and she was a shoemaker's daughter from rural East Yorkshire.

Vladimir Putin has repeatedly referred to Odesa as a "Russian city" and frequently invoked the notion of "liberating ...

Discover new adult, young adult and kids titles at Manistee County Library’s six branches — find thrillers, memoirs, picture ...

The death of Alexander the Great sparked a war for his throne. Contenders included two women, his mother Olympias and his ...

Byzantine Patriarch Anthony warned the Church cannot endure without an empire, emphasizing their inseparable unity during ...

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Stepping into the Hermitage Museum feels like crossing a threshold between centuries. Light spills down the Jordan Staircase from crystal chandeliers, skating a ...

Americans awoke on Saturday morning to the news that the U.S. military had invaded Venezuela, bombing multiple targets and abducting its president, Nicolás Maduro, to face criminal charges in New York ...

Czar Peter the Great of Russia casts a long shadow over history. A giant of a man, with appetites for learning and adventure to match, he did more to modernize his country than pretty much any other ...

Though it's a very distant connection, Dakota Fanning -- who played Jane in three "Twilight" films -- is related to England's Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton.

For Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, President Trump’s billionaire envoys working on a deal to end the Ukraine war, Russia is a land of vast natural resources and rich business opportunities.

MOSCOW, December 25. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump’s "Make America Great Again" pledge aims to save the country, a noble cause, but the methods used to move toward this goal don't always jibe with ...