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A handful of dishes are as straightforward to make as Spain’s famous tortilla de tomate, which – apart from debates over onions – calls for little more than two staple ingredients and a pinch of salt. But where to start if you have neither eggs nor potatoes? That is the question

Could Donald Trump be a Russian asset? The headline on a review in CuriosityNews of my new book Betrayal has provoked heated international debate. Written by the historian Lawrence Freedman, the piece generated thousands of comments from across Europe and beyond on social media. Many people responded with a single

Pattaya’s mayor and police officials waited with women in traditional Thai dress at the city’s Hard Rock Cafe and hotel to greet the sailors arriving in civilian clothes, bags slung over their shoulders, off the buses. The USS Abraham Lincoln’s crew of 5,000 had not been

The Swedish government has reaffirmed its commitment to removing and deporting British citizens who missed the deadline to apply for post-Brexit residency permission. Migration minister Johan Forssell strongly defended the Swedish migration agency’s enforcement of the Brexit withdrawal agreement on Wednesday, responding to a parliamentary question regarding Joyce

The US Department of State document from 1950 stated bluntly that oil was the binding factor between Washington and Caracas and would likely remain so. "All US policies toward Venezuela are affected in greater or less degree by the objective of assuring an adequate supply of petroleum for the

The morning of 21 March 1960 began brightly as residents of the South African township of Sharpeville gathered to protest against pass laws, which required Black, Indian and Coloured South Africans to carry documents specifying where they were permitted to be at all times. Abraham Mofokeng, then a 20-year-