In 1917, the third year of the Great War, as it was then known, a young British soldier named Horace Field Westmacott came under German artillery fire at Hill 60
Mention the word Somalia and many Americans think of a lawless Horn of Africa nation beset by poverty, piracy, conflict and perhaps even the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, recreated in
They met on the beach in Rio de Janeiro. He was an honorary consul for Barbados and she was a tourist hospitality agent in town. “I had come after work,
Some of the most fascinating art in the District is tucked away in the city’s embassies, where rotating exhibitions feature works by artists hailing from the missions’ respective countries. These
If rhetoric is, as the ancients defined it, speech intended to persuade, then few contemporary politicians seem more devoted practitioners of the art than Vladimir Putin. Rarely does he speak
On Aug. 10, Turkey will elect its president by popular vote for the first time in history amid a period of acute political polarization. But the election itself might not
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Nicholas Burns, the respected former American diplomat who served three presidents while working on some of the nation’s most intractable foreign policy challenges, offered a prediction at the outset of
Embroiled in a political and regulatory quagmire that has prevented Canada from acting on ambitions to supply the United States with more crude oil, the Canadian American Business Council (CABC)
