Category: 4. World

Seven months into his chancellorship, Friedrich Merz traveled for his first official visit to Israel, a trip that lasted less than 24 hours. The visit drew intense scrutiny — particularly in Germany — over whether it would send the wrong…

December 8 marks the first anniversary of the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. The Assad family ruled Syria for over 50 years, with Hafez Assad in power from 1971 and then, after his death, his son Bashar taking over in 2000.

The Assads’…

December 8 marks a year after Syrian dictator Bashar Assadwas toppled. The Assad family ruled Syria for over 50 years, with Hafez Assad in power from 1971 and then, after his death, his son Bashar taking over in 2000. 

The Assads’ autocratic…

In late 2023, the South Australian premier’s wife put down a book she had been reading. It was Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation.

“[She] said to me you better bloody do something about this … and then we got to work,” Peter…

A water leak in late November damaged several hundred works in the Louvre’s Egyptian department, the Paris museum said on Sunday, weeks after a brazen jewel theft raised concerns over its infrastructure.

“Between 300 and 400 works” were…

Officials at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, on Sunday confirmed that a large collection of historically important books had been damaged in November as a result of a water leak.

The leak affected the Mollien Wing of the museum, where the…