As well as being one of the faces of ITV’s ‘News at Ten’, the foreign correspondent forged a career covering the world’s most ...

He was in intrepid journalist in Vietnam, Africa and the Middle East before becoming a mainstay news presenter on British TV.

A global transformation is quietly but decisively evolving and uncertain. American dominance is no longer what it was. The post-Cold War order that emerged after the Soviet Union’s collapse, grounded ...

Eighty years ago, on June 26, 1945, the UN Charter was signed at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on ...

Directed by Johan Grimonprez, it cut deep into the blood-and-rubber ties between Belgium and Congo, shining a light on the United Nations, jazz as a political agent and the plot to assassinate Congo’s ...

1863: The Battle of Gettysburg ends in a major victory for the Union during the American Civil War ... On the same day, King Leopold II gives Congo, previously a private possession, to Belgium. 1898: ...

Learn about sources of continued violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how the United Nations, African Union, and neighboring countries are struggling to curtail it.

Lumumba’s nationalist beliefs and proximity with the Soviet Union made him a target of Western intelligence services. President Joseph Kasa-Vubu revoked him after only seven months.