Paul Robeson was a superstar of the stage and screen, a talented football player and a music hitmaker. Then came a dramatic ...

A backlash over a rant against Ukrainian officials has raised questions about Eastern Europe’s welcome of Russian dissidents.

In an upset victory over China at the 1984 Olympics, he and five others became the only American men ever to win the gold ...

The world passed a nuclear milestone this week. And, perhaps surprisingly given the recent run of saber-rattling from the likes of Russia and the United States, it’s a positive one.

As this article goes to press, security officials in Iran are carefully weighing their options on how to dole out violence to ...

The Yak-9 performed more anti-tank missions, in particular, the Yak-9T variant with a 37mm cannon, in this case the Nudelman-Suranov NS-37 (also fitted to the Ilyushin Il-2 and Lavochkin LaGG-3). This ...

While writer and activist Zabel Yessayan had been relegated to obscurity for decades after her disappearance under murky ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union quietly transformed civilian space stations into armed military platforms, culminating in the only known cannon ever fired in space. Decades later, declassified ...

In the aftermath of the U.S. military strike that seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3, 2026, the Trump ...

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez says lawmakers in her country should approve reforms to the oil industry that ...

The Czech Republic's new government of populist Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has won a confidence vote in Parliament.