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Celebrations marking the 70 anniversary of the countrys independence from britain. Singer taylor swift wins her Sexual Assault case against a former radio dj. Good morning. It is tuesday, the 15th of august. Welcome to bbc newsroom alive. The Brexit Secretary has confirmed that the government wa nts to has confirmed that the government wants to negotiate a temporary Customs Relationship with the eu for when the uk leaves, similar to current arrangements. The Eu Commission has welcomed the propos...

Mexico's government has ties to Israel, and Indigenous communities and activists see a common cause with Palestine.

In the restive eastern province, Cold War realpolitik continues to reverberate.

The Western bloc has a long record of promises to Russia made and broken, from a commitment not to expand east, to a pledge to support the 2015 Minsk peace deal to end the Ukrainian crisis. Now, a new set of records reveals that NATO vowed not to meddle in Russia’s backyard – a commitment broken in subsequent decades through color revolutions.

The Soviet Union’s decade-long incursion into Afghanistan has been compared to the American experience in Vietnam. Both wars bore some surface similarities to each other, though closer examination would reveal a multitude of differences behind the circumstances that brought them about, the relative commitment both great powers had to these conflicts, and the motivations for their involvement in the first place. But one striking similarity exists: both wars saw heavy use of the helicopter in an...

The Soviet Union’s decade-long incursion into Afghanistan has been compared to the American experience in Vietnam. Both wars bore some surface similarities to each other, though closer examination would reveal a multitude of differences behind the circumstances that brought them about, the relative commitment both great powers had to these conflicts, and the motivations for their involvement in the first place. But one striking similarity exists: both wars saw heavy use of the helicopter in an...

In Vasily Arkhipov’s action, which prevented a disastrous nuclear confrontation, is evidence of the power of nonviolence as practised through self-restraint.

The United States of America has been the pre-eminent country on Earth for over 40 years.  There are many competing analyses of these developments, different

At present, the "Global South," comprising emerging market countries and developing countries, is steadily increasing its voice and influence in international affairs. Latin American countries ar...

Fifty years after the 1973 military coup in Chile, the United States finally declassifies part of its secret documents.