March 11 marks a day of significant global events. In 2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Japan faced a massive ...

Alan Greenspan served as the 13th chair of the Federal Reserve for 18 and a half years, during which time the US experienced the Great Moderation of stability, relatively low inflation, and rising ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who served as the Soviet Union’s final leader and is credited with transitioning the former country, and Eastern Europe, to post-communist governance, died Tuesday. Foreign policy ...

Khamenei assumed office as Iran’s supreme leader in 1989. At the time, the global political landscape looked dramatically different. Here’s a snapshot of leaders who were in power when he took charge: ...

Philippines marks 40 years of nonviolent change, end of dictatorship, culture of death A scene on EDSA during the "People Power" revolt on February 25, 1986, showing the collective show of action of ...

Seven decades ago, in the early hours of February 25, 1956, inside the precincts of the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev, the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, stood before a ...

# 25 Historical Decisions That Could Have Ended the World ![Cracked globe overlaid with historical elements, representing the ...

On Churchill, Carney and political fences Re: Donald Trump’s war on Iran is righteously just — Adam Zivo, March 2; and Mark ...

1952 – Joins the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and works in various positions in the party for the next two decades. 1955-1958 – Becomes the first secretary of the Communist Party of the ...

Mikhail Gorbachev had been the leader of the Soviet Union for just 13 days when he was suddenly faced with an international crisis. On March 24, 1985, a Soviet sentry shot and killed U.S. Army Maj.

Mikhail Shaidorov became Kazakhstan’s first Olympic gold medallist in men’s figure skating after triumphing at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics 2026. Kazakhstan has crowned its first-ever Olympic ...