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A translation that captures the power of one of the greatest war stories ever told—Julius Caesar’s account of his brutal campaign to conquer Gaul.Imagine a book about an unnecessary war written by the ruthless general of…

Twitter said Monday it was introducing aliases for participants in its Birdwatch moderation tool, a fact-checking mechanism to combat misleading or inaccurate information.Introduced as a pilot in January, Birdwatch enables Twitter…

Slovakia’s leaders have proposed a national lockdown as hospitals across the European Union country are hitting their limits amid a record surge of coronavirus infections.Inspired by neighboring Austria, the Slovak government is set…

Yemen's seven-year-old war will have claimed 377,000 lives by the end of the year, through both direct and indirect impacts, a UN agency estimates in a report published Tuesday. Nearly 60 percent of deaths will have been caused by…

A former Tunisian foreign minister, on Tuesday, called on the country's sitting president to either step down or return to the constitutional order after he ousted the government, suspended parliament, and assumed executive authority…

The Libyan High National Elections Commission (HNEC) closed Monday candidacy registration for presidential elections after over 80 candidates had submitted their documents for the December 24 vote. The HNEC is expected to publish the…

Libya's military prosecutor has called for halting the candidacy of  Khalifa Haftar and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, for Libya's presidential elections.Libya al-Ahrar TV said military prosecutor Masoud Erhouma submitted a request to Emad…

The Kremlin on Monday dismissed new allegations that Moscow was weighing a military attack on Ukraine, and said it was alarmed that Ukraine was being supplied with large quantities of weapons and building up its own forces.The head…

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken received Monday Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, announced the State Department on its website."The Secretary of State meets the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita, at…

In the runup to landmark elections in Libya, the UN special envoy for Libya has stepped down with immediate effect due to health reasons, diplomatic sources told Libyan Express on Tuesday.Jan Kubis' decision to step down from his…