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By RFE/RL May 11, 2020 PRAGUE -- Czech media have identified the man they say is the undercover Russian diplomat who entered the country nearly two months ago with a suitcase containing ricin as part of an alleged plot to poison as many as three Prague officials who had taken…

The current epidemic is bringing political tightening, economic downturn and social disruption, but it might also be an opportunity for radical change towards a more fair, democratic, and open Europe, says Timothy Garton Ash. The coronavirus crisis seems to be encouraging belief in radical change. An astonishing 71% of Europeans…

The current epidemic is bringing political tightening, economic downturn and social disruption, but it might also be an opportunity for radical change towards a more fair, democratic, and open Europe, says Timothy Garton Ash. The coronavirus crisis seems to be encouraging belief in radical change. An astonishing 71% of Europeans…

The current epidemic is bringing political tightening, economic downturn and social disruption, but it might also be an opportunity for radical change towards a more fair, democratic, and open Europe, says Timothy Garton Ash. The coronavirus crisis seems to be encouraging belief in radical change. An astonishing 71% of Europeans…

(CNN)The United States has scaled back its role on the world stage, taken actions that are undermining efforts to battle the coronavirus pandemic and left the international community without a traditional global leader, according to experts, diplomats and analysts.The US -- usually at the head of the table helping to…

Tyler Carrington’s​ micro-history Love at Last Sight opens like a work of true crime, with the unsolved case of Frieda Kliem, a 39-year-old seamstress murdered on 17 June 1914 in a forest on the outskirts of Berlin. The murderer was presumed to be a man she met through a personal…

A new book by historian Tim Cook looks at how World War II fits in Canada's historical imagination, and why it was vulnerable to neglect for so long It used to be easy to find a prime spot for watching the Remembrance Day ceremonies at Ottawa’s National War Memorial. Back…

I've FaceTimed my best friend for two Fridays in a row now. OK, I know, that doesn't seem like much to brag about.  But that's something we never really did before — gestures vaguely at the state of the world — all of this.  I love my best friend. We…

Skip to comments. Prague mayor who removed Soviet war hero statue goes under police protection amid fears of an assassination plot after 'Russian enters Czech Republic with ricin in his briefcase' daily mail ^ | April 28, 2020 | By HARRY HOWARD FOR MAILONLINE and AFP Posted on 05/02/2020 11:46:01…

As the econom­ic dispar­ity grows today fresh proof is emergi­ng that ideas seldom die The writer is an Islamabad-based TV journalist and tweets @FarrukhKPitafi The First World War was raging when the German authorities struck gold in a clever idea. If they could send Vladimir Lenin and the rest of…