How Ivan Mazepa ruled like a king, switched sides like a gambler, turned on the Russian Empire – and lived just long enough to regret it
Ivan Mazepa remains one of the most controversial figures…
How Ivan Mazepa ruled like a king, switched sides like a gambler, turned on the Russian Empire – and lived just long enough to regret it
Ivan Mazepa remains one of the most controversial figures…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Crew members aboard a Liberian-flagged ship set ablaze by a series of attacks in the Red Sea abandoned the vessel Sunday night as it took on water, marking the first serious assault in the…

Parisians and tourists flocked to take a dip in the Seine River this weekend after city authorities gave the green light for it to be used for public swimming for the first time in more than a century.
The opening followed a comprehensive clean-up…

President Donald Trump successfully leveraged a short, sharp burst of highly targeted military force against Iran’s nuclear program.
The United States’s airstrikes have caused significant damage to three key Iranian nuclear facilities….

A manga called The Future I Saw has had a number of frighteningly accurate predictions about disasters in the world since its original publishing in 1999. A 2021 re-print added a reference to a disaster on July 5, 2025, and the superstition led…

A large-scale NATO military exercise earlier this year. Credit…Davide Monteleone for The New York TimesViewed through the Cold War prism, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s decision at its recent summit meeting at the Hague to boost…

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV arrived in the papal summer retreat of Castel Gandolfo on Sunday to start a six-week vacation, giving the hilltop town back its most illustrious resident after…

Russia and Ukraine struck each other with hundreds of drones on Sunday, throwing Russian air travel in disarray, shortly after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced deals with Western partners that would allow Kyiv to scale up…