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In December 1975, four members of one of the IRA’s deadliest units were chased by police through the streets of London before hiding out in a small flat owned by a middle-aged couple called John and ...

In 1994, a suburban wife, mother and journalist named Christine Kuehn received a mysterious letter in the mail from a ...

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In 2011, Lagos Fashion Week debuted, putting Nigerian style on the map. Omoyemi Akerele founded the event which helped to launch the careers of designers internationally. It has grown into a major ...

Tall, reedy, gentle, devoutly religious and pro-German is Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax of Monk Bretton in the West Riding of York, Baron Irwin of Kirby Underdale York, Knight of the ...

Whatever happens to Ukraine, its treatment will surely go down in history as the most abject since Munich in 1938, when the British and French abandoned central Europe’s only new democracy. There is ...

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