When Poland was invaded on September 1, 1939, the vast majority of its 3.3 million Jews remained in place, naively hoping for the best. A small and perceptive minority, fearing Nazi atrocities, fled ...

The monument was erected to honor the residents of the Italian town of Palestrina, who heroically fought against Nazism and ...

Trump chided the Ukrainian leader for refusing to recognise Russia's occupation of Crimea as part of a U.S. peace deal to end ...

The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, is at the centre of the worst East-West standoff since the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind ...

Trump insists he is ‘putting pressure’ on Putin after ‘Vladimir STOP!’ exclamation - US president says strikes that killed at ...

Isaak Dunayevsky, the USSR's most famous and highly paid pop composer, twice winner of the Stalin Prize, was the most ...

In an apparent stern rebuke to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Catholicos Karekin II condemned “reprehensible attempts to ...

Nuclear-armed arch-rivals India and Pakistan have long accused each other of backing forces to destabilise them, especially ...

Crimea, a peninsula jutting into the Black Sea, has become the focal point of escalating tensions between Russia and the West ...

During the Cold War, many radical new designs in submarines were crafted by both the United States and their rivals in the Soviet Union. In some respects, however, the Soviet Red Navy had the more ...