Cold War

An explosion at a Russian research lab housing lethal viruses such as Ebola and smallpox was reportedly so severe that it blew out windows on Monday. A gas canister was to blame for the blaze at the Vektor center in Koltsovo, Siberia, according to a statem…

During his first Citizenship Day speech on Sept. 17, 1952, President Truman warmly greeted the immigrants attending the annual meeting of the National Conference on Citizenship in Washington, D.C. Later that day, they would take the Oath of Allegiance at a na…

U.S. President Donald Trump believes Iran is to blame for an attack on two major oil facilities in Saudi Arabia that put a huge portion of the worlds supply on hold. About 50 per cent of the production cut by the attack was restored by Tuesday. READ MORE: …

Irans supreme leader announced on Tuesday that there will be no talks with the U.S. at any level remarks apparently meant to end all speculation about a possible U.S.-Iran meeting between the two countries presidents at the U.N. later this month. Iranian sta…

Image copyrightAFPImage caption The Vektor centre has a huge collection of dangerous viruses (file pic) A major Russian research centre studying lethal viruses including Ebola and HIV says there was no biological contamination from an explosion and fire in…

Originally coined by the US Army to describe the increasingly unpredictable dynamics of the post-Cold War world, the acronym VUCA has been embraced by the business world to describe the global economy of the 21st century. Each letter stands for a unique type …

Newly released documents have revealed how the CIA used birds and other animals during the Cold War. When it came to spying on the Soviets, no stone was left unturned.Throughout the 1970s, the CIA investigated the use of various types of animals in their eff…

The Handmaids Tale came out near the end of the Cold War, and Atwood has said she was inspired by mid-20th-century works of anti-totalitarian speculative fiction like 1984 and Ray BradburysFahrenheit 451. These books depict closed, airless societies, where de…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin Recently a friend asked me about Huawei and to explain why the name continues to be in the news. My answer: Its like watching a reality TV show. There is no shortage of d…

This past June, R&B singer Cautious Clay was on tour in Bergen, Norway when he received a frantic 2 a.m. phone call from his lawyer. “They were like, ‘You have to approve this sample….We need an answer in 24 hours.” The request was coming from an unlikel…