It was a messy failure. Khaled and her fellow hijackers wrongly believed that Yitzhak Rabin, then the Israeli ambassador to the US, was on board the flight. They forced the plane to land in Damascus, ...

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Václav Havel was an important writer, playwright and political activist. He worked tirelessly against tyrannical communism, and when ...

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When Jan Marsalek boarded a plane to Minsk, he left behind a €1.9 billion (£1.59 billion) black hole in his company’s ...

Arab leaders met in Cairo March 4, urging Palestinian unity under the PLO. Here’s a look at its history, including factions such as Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Today, 517 Stolpersteine in the city of Salzburg commemorate victims of National Socialism in places where people once lived or worked. However, the small stone cubes with brass plaques embedded ...

That being the case, it becomes more likely, rather than less, that China will make a strategic calculation that now is the time to strike one of its neighbors. The strike could target the Philippines ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Two-time Academy Award-winning actor Gene Hackman, his wife, and their dog were found dead Wednesday afternoon in their home in a gated community in Santa Fe.

This new initiative is unfolding in China, the company’s second-biggest market. Elon Musk's Tesla has struggled lately as share prices have declined. The company is facing new problems in China ...