A decree issued by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday led authorities to seize the residual assets of three French firms, as well as Swiss food giant Nestlé, in the late…
Around 45 pro-Palestinian protesters have been arrested after they disrupted a demonstration by supporters of Israel in Amsterdam. Police led members of the group away after they …
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon is due to end its operations on December 31, after 48 years of deployment. Lebanese authorities and members of the UN Security Council …
Twenty-two-year-old conductor Maximilian Cem Haberstock will lead German composer Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana” at the 33rd Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival in Antalya.
The final round of the 2026 World Rally Championship has been moved from Saudi Arabia to Italy because of continuing unrest and uncertainty in the Middle East, with the season sho…
The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful … is the great and most universal cause of our moral sentiments. –Adam Smith * One recent summer aftern…
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And the award for honesty in oil market analysis goes to ... J.P. Morgan!"For the first time since the start of the Iran conflict, we don't have a baseline view. We simply don't k…
Is the soul immortal, or does it die with the body? At the turn of the 18th century, amateur theologians like Henry Layton began to speculate, much to experts’ chagrin.
Around 50 French nationals who fought for the Islamic State group face the death penalty in Iraq, where they are detained. Their lawyers denounced this as a 'denial of justice' an…
Western powers lack the military capacity or political appetite to intervene directly in the Middle East, as Saudi Arabia seeks support in countering the advances of the Houthi re…
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. On January 8, 1981, I started writing a letter to my grandfather, who was dying in Chile. My original id…