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.

CIA Director, Allen Dulles, labelled him “a Castro in Africa.” President Eisenhower reportedly gave the order for his assassination. In classified 1960 cables and memos, Lumumba was ...

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 ...

International Operation Name: Opération des Nations unies au Congo International Operation Dates: 14 July 1960 – 30 June 1964 Mandating Organization: United Nations Region Name: Africa Location: Congo ...

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: ...

Analysis: 100 years after his death, Lenin seems to be an afterthought in modern Russia A century after the death of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union is largely an afterthought in ...

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.