January 15 marks 50 years since the Alvor Agreement promised Angola’s independence from Portugal. Yet the new state was doomed to be a Cold War battleground, with Washington planners seeking to avenge ...

Moscow fires dozens of missiles at Ukrainian energy sites, forcing authorities to introduce preventive power cuts.

In 1861, when Republican leader Abraham Lincoln was on his way to becoming President of the United States of America, the ...

Queen Elizabeth II wasn't told details of her long-time art adviser's double life as a Soviet spy because palace officials ...