He is Henry Christophe, then a boy of 12 ... Then there was a lengthy civil war. Christophe was eventually named king in 1811. How did a monarchy emerge from all this tumult? Daut: Haiti first ...

A second familiar motif is the film’s Shakespearean meditation on the brotherhood of battle. Like 2001’s HBO mini-series Band ...

Before he was a rebel, Asres Mare Damte was a lawyer. Today he fights for the Fano, a loose collection of groups taking on Ethiopia’s military in one of its most populous and powerful regions ...

And more recently – as this terrific new book, Allies At War, by Tim Bouverie, shows in great and glorious detail – in the Second World War negotiating your way through the shifting diplomatic ...

Despite the reduction in piracy attacks in the Gulf of Guinea, importers paid $1.5bn as war risk insurance premiums on Nigeria-bound cargoes in the last three years, The PUNCH reports. This came ...

A fitness instructor is at war with her neighbours in an affluent Dorset parish after setting up a pole dancing studio inside her home. Samilou Saunders runs the classes out of the converted ...

In the matter of war, the American language creates its own fog. We speak not only of wars, but also of armed conflicts, military engagements, combat operations, expeditions, policing actions ...

Katz had earlier sent a message to the Lebanese government that Lebanon must enforce the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah, or Israel will continue to strike the country. By ...

All burned ferociously, as did the structures housing the War and the State departments ... Entitled “Defence of Fort M’Henry,” the verse was accompanied by a suggestion that it be set ...

David Walliams doesn’t like Simon Cowell and makes no effort to hide it. Since being forced out as a judge of Britain’s Got Talent in 2022 – when offensive comments Walliams made about ...

For the first time since the beginning of European integration, Europe can be said to be at war. But could this conflict, paradoxically, prove to be a blessing for “Social Europe”? An intriguing ...

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