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An interview with the translator and editor of ‘The Greatest Malayalam Stories Ever Told’.

World War II was rife with tactical air raids and the indiscriminate destruction of civilian lives. It took years for the Allied Powers and their supporters to have second thoughts about their vicious tactics.

Feb 08, 2024 // In the 1960s, jazz emerged as a strategic weapon of of the Cold War. Jazz musicians, later dubbed “Goodwill Jazz Ambassadors,” became a U.S. propaganda tool—initially, unbeknownst to the artists, writes Diplomatic Courier's Melissa Metos in her review of the film 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat.'

How the continuing Middle East conflicts could impact the global economy.

Soleil Ho should know that countries barren of liberties are also barren of groceries.

Writing in Repubblica, Massimo Giannini reveals what the powers that be think about the tractor protests in Europe. With a dismissive wave of contempt...

Before the 2024 show and before the 2005 movie, there was the 1996 Mr. and Mrs. Smith series. And it was bad.

Ravenna You’re not supposed to mock the afflicted, I know, but I laughed when I read the news that the left-wing citadel of Bologna has introduced a 30 kph (19 mph) speed limit. Forcing the Italians – a nation of famously crazy drivers who make fabulous sports cars – to drive no faster than cyclists is

Town councillors want to revive their former twinning association with friends in Czechia.

John Simpson has revealed that he had a two-year love affair with a BBC executive recently unmasked as a communist spy.