This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was first published in 1955, after many rejections from American publishers, b…
A cheering crowd dressed in festive attire welcomes the Chinese leader at Pyongyang’s main square. Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Pyongyang, marking a rare state visi…
Israel said on June 8 it had struck targets across Iran, defying U.S. President Donald Trump's call to refrain from retaliating against Tehran's barrage of missiles.
Iraq is once again caught in the crossfire of a widening Iran-Israel conflict, with pro-Tehran militias threatening to open a new front if the US enters the war, as Baghdad strugg…
China's President Xi Jinping hailed an "invincible friendship" with Pyongyang on arrival in North Korea Monday, his first trip abroad this year after hosting back-to-back summits …
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has said Türkiye would be ready to contribute to mine-clearing efforts in the Strait of Hormuz if requested by the parties, while expressing cautious …
UK, France, and Germany support Zelenskyy’s proposal for a meeting with Putin, as drone attacks continue.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed in an interview with Sky News that the Russian businessman who traveled to Kyiv to meet with him was Roman Abramovich.
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, whose film It Was Just an Accident received an Academy Award nomination this year, has been ordered to serve a one-year prison sentence after a Teh…
This was the first time the alliance's rapid reaction Baltic Air Policing mission has shot down a drone in Latvia.
Israel and Iran traded fire early Monday in retaliatory strikes, Trump walked out of an interview after being pressed on election fraud claims, ebola outbreak is spreading at alar…
Video shows plumes of smoke rising from Mahshahr Petrochemical Complex in Iran’s Khuzestan Province on Monday.