Adolf Hitler speaks at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, 1939. (Central Press/Hulton Archive/) When news of the Japanese ...

Operation Flagship was a U.S Marshals sting operation, where some of Washington DC’s most wanted fugitives, were lured to a convention centre under the pretence of having won coveted NFL tickets in ...

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On 12 December 2015, 193 countries and the European Union adopted the Paris climate agreement. It legally committed countries to climate action plans, designed to stop global temperatures rising 2C ...

Nigel Farage has come under fire after resurfaced remarks showed he was 'dazzled' by 'Rivers of Blood' Tory Enoch Powell when he was a schoolboy at Dulwich College ...

Tall, reedy, gentle, devoutly religious and pro-German is Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax of Monk Bretton in the West Riding of York, Baron Irwin of Kirby Underdale York, Knight of the ...

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As is well known, Spanish diplomat Ángel Sanz Briz—the legendary “Angel of Budapest”—rescued more than 5,000 Jews; yet what gets deliberately ignored today is that he acted with explicit authorization ...