The Angolan War of Independence was a struggle for control of Angola between guerrilla movements and Portuguese colonial authority. Cuba supplied the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) rebels with weapons and soldiers to fight. The Cu ...[
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Fidel Castro will live forever, China's President Xi Jinping said on Saturday in a message read out on television following the death of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
"The Chinese people have lost a good and true comrade," Mr Jinping said in a message ...[
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Bordeaux Mayor Alain Juppe conceded his defeat in Sunday’s runoff of the center-right primaries and wished his challenger a victory next May.
Fillon won the primary with ~70% of votes. Fillon advocates cooperation and reconciliation with Russia and is a ...[
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Pope Francis said the death of Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro was "sad news" and he was grieving.
Francis expressed his condolences in a message to Fidel's brother, President Raul Castro on Saturday.
The pope, who met Fidel Castro when he visite ...[
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They prevent $7 billion in health costs every year by filtering air pollution—not to mention their psychological effects. New research says the closer you can live to trees, the better off you are. ...[
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Sir Clement Freud, the former broadcaster and politician, was exposed on Tuesday night as a paedophile who sexually abused girls as young as 10 for decades.
Freud, who died in 2009, spent years abusing a girl who he brought up as a daughter, and violently ...[
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A half-hearted near handshake between US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin before and after they spoke «for about four minutes», standing up, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Lima, Peru ...[
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Clinton Foundation scandals emerged as a major blow to Hillary Clinton’s campaign this past election, as emails released by WikiLeaks and from FOIA requests revealed pay-to-play schemes and overt conflicts of interest between the Foundation and Clinton� ...[
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After weeks of calling for the United States Government to provide the efforts of water protectors at Standing Rock to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline, Bernie Sanders finally has some company in the United States Senate joining him in that call. ...[
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In an appalling piece, NYT backs, rationalizes pedophilia and calls for removing punishments against pedophilia. The article opens with "Think about your first high school crush..." ...[
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The U.S. investment bank claimed that Venezuela's state oil company missed debt payments. The country hasn't missed payments since 2002.
Venezuela may take legal action against U.S. investment bank J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. after the financial institution a ...[
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