“An ambassador is an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.” Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) In the 1960s a well-traveled Englishman, Anthony C. Barnes (he had worked ...

It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an ...

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In November 1784, more than a year after the Treaty of Paris brought the Revolutionary War to a close, Marquis de Lafayette, a general who helped lead American forces to victory, wrote a note of ...

NATO member Finland plans to quit a global convention banning anti-personnel landmines and boost defense spending to at least 3% of GDP by 2029 in response to the evolving military threat from ...

The chief of the K'ómoks First Nation on Vancouver Island says members have voted in favour of both a treaty and constitution, opening the door for the nation to reclaim a culture that faced ...

The "White Continent" has lured explorers and scientists to its stunning, ice-encrusted landscape for two centuries. Countries have tried to carve up Antarctica and lay claim, but no one owns it.

Paris-Roubaix will embark on its 122nd edition held on April 13, 2025. The peloton will have completed the famed Belgian Spring Classics before venturing over the border to France for the third ...

British Columbia’s Energy Ministry says the United States has paused negotiations with Canada on the wide-reaching Columbia River Treaty that regulates everything from flood control and power ...

US President Donald Trump on Thursday criticized the US-Japan Security Treaty, highlighting the fact that the US is obliged to defend Japan under the agreement but Japan does not offer the same ...

Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint during a 2016 trip to Paris. Kardashian visited the French capital during Paris Fashion Week, where she heard someone enter her hotel room. “I knew someone ...