“Don’t bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words / then labor heavily so that they may seem light,” Wisława Szymborska writes in “Under One Small Star.” Szymborska kep…
Today, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye turns 75. Despite mixed early reviews, the book quickly became a touchstone of American literature, and an icon of American culture i…
The EU's top court has backed a Spanish law giving amnesty to Catalan separatists over the independence referendum. The deal let Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez stay in office in 202…
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on July 15 that Türkiye remains a source of hope for “the oppressed” across the Middle East and beyond, as the country marked the 10th annivers…
Türkiye has engaged in a new round of efforts for the resumption of negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian officials in the Istanbul format as Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan pai…
The Falkland Islands have been at the heart of a long-running dispute between the United Kingdom and Argentina.
The first reviews are in for Christopher Nolan's epic The Odyssey, and it has broken a Rotten Tomatoes record for the director. The Oppenheimer creator helms the adaptation of the…
A full inventory of all the books written by Emily Henry, bestselling author of hit romantic comedies Beach Read and Funny Story
Germany's upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat, has introduced a bill seeking to ban the questioning of Israel's right to exist. It is now up to the lower house to decide whet…
Syrian security forces have seized a shipment of advanced missiles and weapons at the Iraqi-Syrian border after intercepting an alleged smuggling operation. Aut
Tehran on July 16 threatened to destroy “all the infrastructure in the region,” saying it was engaged in an “existential war” with the United States, as the foes battled over the …
In his search for an original aesthetic capable of capturing the epic masterpiece of antiquity, the filmmaker opts for grandeur, with a prestigious cast and vast resources, but fa…