One of the rarest versions of the FN49 rifle is the Belgian Congo contract, made to equip the Force Publique there - the ...

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Evidence emerged that Eisenhower ordered the CIA to eliminate Patrice Lumumba in 1960, as revealed in a 1975 interview linked ...

From Iran to Iraq, Brazil to Vietnam, Washington has sought to topple leaders and regimes it thinks are acting against its ...

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Analysis - The curtain has fallen in Oslo and Stockholm. The Nobel Prize laureates have been announced. The award ceremony has taken place; however, it has invariably generated less excitement than ...

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Israel controls Palestine, comprising Gaza and West Bank which it annexed from Egypt and Jordan, and would like its claims ...

When President Barack Obama won the U.S. presidential election in November 2008, the African continent erupted in celebration ...