Lumumba was the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo after it gained independence from Belgium in 1960, ...

And it was designed in part by Henry van de Velde, an architect I’d long had an interest in.” During the COVID pandemic, she collaborated on writing a lecture on the building for the Massachusetts ...

In “Chain of Ideas,” Ibram X. Kendi argues that a modern form of xenophobia has come to dominate conservative movements across the world.

Former top diplomat and European commissioner Etienne Davignon (93) will have to appear in court to answer questions about ...

Rory Carroll on his quest to chronicle a largely hidden aspect of the 1916 Rising: the two-year tracking and pursuit of Roger Casement by Britain’s security services ...

Chavez’s name is emblazoned on streets, schools, parks and monuments across the United States. In California, many schools ...

George Arliss was the first British actor to win an Oscar. A play actor originally, Arliss first starred in the 1911 Louis Napoleon Parker play "Disraeli," which was later turned first into a silent ...

Families and tourists thronged the streets in cities and towns across Ireland for St Patrick’s Day, while reflecting on what ...

Pompidou placed significant importance on promoting the French language as a means to counter Anglo-Saxon influence, thereby ...

A Belgian court orders a 93-year-old former diplomat to stand trial over Patrice Lumumba’s 1961 assassination, in a rare case tied to Belgium’s colonial past.

A 93-year-old former Belgian diplomat was ordered on Tuesday to stand trial for participation in "war crimes" over his role ...

By Inti Landauro BRUSSELS, March 17 (Reuters) - A Brussels court on Tuesday ordered a former high-profile Belgian diplomat to ...