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By Jiarui Wang On March 24, 1954, Hungary and the U.K. held a bilateral talk to resume the countries’ economic relations that had ended...

By Ilya Akdemir Recent developments regarding the legality of Russia’s intervention in Ukraine Was Russia’s 2014 intervention in Ukraine...

By: Maximilian Oehl In his recent documentary, filmmaker Adam Curtis translates the term hypernormalization, originally created by...

By Maribeth Hunsinger The plan was simple: overthrow Fidel Castro. On March 17, 1960, President Eisenhower signed a National Security...

By: Maximilian Oehl On March 10, 1983 then US-President Ronald Reagan proclaimed that the United States would not be signing the United...

By Sara Birkenthal I zoom into the pixelated image of a neighborhood in Bayanoun, a district located in the Northern district of Syria,...

By Lauren-Kelly Jones Thus began the Second Opium War – also known as the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French War – which followed the First...

By: Jackie Momah On February 24 1924 Mahatma Gandhi was released from prison. In his fight against the British rule over India in the...

By: Maribeth Hunsinger Western Sahara is a disputed territory in the Maghreb region of North Africa, bordering Morocco, Algeria, and...

By Arjun Ghosh On February 17, 1863, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was founded in Geneva by Swiss businessman Henry...

By Alfredo Diaz On February 10, 2009, the first accidental hypervelocity collision between two intact artificial satellites in low Earth...

By Ilya Akdemir On December 15th, 2016, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will pay a visit to Japan. The discussions between President...

By Maribeth Hunsinger, JD Candidate 2019 The relatively young nations of Central Asia have been slowly opening their economies to foreign...