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The staff agreed it was time to close down the newspaper launched in 1993, the year Russia adopted its post-Soviet ...

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There are hopes Spain will do better when it holds this year’s pow-wow, in Madrid, on November 4th and 5th. The organisers ...

Belknap Press; 280 pages; $32.95 and £27.95 The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory. By Andrew McKenzie-McHarg. Princeton ...

Beirut, Lebanon’s capital, was once a small corner of freedom in the Arab world, known for dance parties and louche living.

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F or eight months after France and Britain formally declared war on Germany in September 1939, remarkably little happened.