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Intrigue surrounds the Hamas leader’s defiant final moments, but an exalted afterlife as Palestine’s champion now seems certain

Sri Lanka's Marxist president-elect Anura Kumara Dissanayaka hails from a party behind two deadly insurrections, counts Che Guevara among his heroes and will now helm a country limping back from economic ruin.

Other items include a bible Michael Collins had when he was assassinated, a newly discovered copy of a speech by Wolfe Tone and Phil Lynott’s guitar.

A conversation with a colleague leads me to repost this item from 2016; I also made similar points in this 2017 post about a different controversy. It's of course far removed in some ways on the facts from the controversies we've been seeing recently. Some might argue, for instance, that…

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni – Africa’s fourth-longest-serving head of state in 2023 – has cemented his place in history. He brought an end to two tyrannies: in 1979 his militia helped to oust Idi Amin’s famously bloody regime; and in the 1980s his army won a guerrilla campaign against the…

From the loudest land mammal to the Uraniborg observatory, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

The recent investigations into alleged war crimes committed by Australian and UK special forces in Afghanistan have raised urgent questions about the conduct of people serving in the military.

As rising inflation renders Cuba’s domestic currency increasingly worthless, citizens are also facing severe food shortages.

Documentary-maker whose films for the series Disappearing World told the stories of remote communities under threat