Many things added up to create the famine that swept through the Holy Roman Empire. The 1600s were naturally lean years, as the environment dropped 2 degrees. But things got much, much worse.

and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hold a news conference in Vienna in 2015 amid frustrated efforts to find a political solution to Syria’s civil war. Brendan Smialowski/Reuters A woman ...

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Such conditions mean that the camp in North Darfur earlier this year achieved the grim distinction of being formally declared the first famine in the world for seven years. Cut off by front lines ...

Famine and ethnic cleansing stalk Sudan ... group accused of ethnic cleansing in Sudan’s sprawling civil war, the flight manifest showed. The gold itself had been smuggled from Darfur, a ...

Hong Kong CNN — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has warned the United States against restarting a trade war, saying there would be “no winners” even as he vowed to defend the country’s economic ...

Russia has said the Ukraine war will continue until it meets its aims - either on the battlefield or via negotiations - as its spy chief claimed it was close to achieving them. President Putin ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends an awarding ceremony in Moscow MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Tuesday that the Ukraine war would continue until the goals set by President Vladimir ...

But the latest assessments of the state of the play on the front line by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) show that Kyiv's forces have seized five settlements in the Russian region and one ...

His views give an insight into thinking at the top levels of the Kremlin - which views the West's support for Ukraine as evidence that the United States is fighting a proxy war against Russia ...