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From Vicky Kaushal’s Sam Bahadur to Janhvi Kapoor’s Gunjan Saxena, here are some films based on real-life Indian heroes.

Three films about Russian anti-Kremlin journalists and activists under President Vladimir Putin have been shortlisted for the Oscars, in what critics said Wednesday sent a clear anti-war, ...

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Today marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 81st anniversary of that liberation. Commemorations are taking place ...

I did not need to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps to know they were unspeakably evil. However, my somber visit ...

Xi was chosen by the elders of the Chinese Communist Party to succeed Hu Jintao as General Secretary because he was viewed as “a safe pair of hands” – a princeling of “red genes” born into party ...

India is moving from adaptation to actively trying to influence the global agenda, using its unique position as a growing ...

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Ho Chi Minh City museum unveils special exhibit marking 53 years since the Paris Peace Accords with a tribute to one of Vietnam’s most iconic women.

We need to examine nonviolent resistance critically. But dismissing it based on misconceptions about how it functions, or romanticizing armed struggle while ignoring its failures, leaves movements ...