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Spooks, Sleuths and the Nazi Origins of the War on Drugs
In the years after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement brought an end to decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland,…
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A United Ireland May Be More Than a Dream
Before she died in 2013, Dolours Price, a Provisional Irish Republican Army guerrilla, started granting interviews. She described planting I.R.A.…
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A Landmark of Black Cinema, Restored for a New Age
The British director Horace Ové struggled to get his 1975 film, “Pressure,” made and released. Now, weeks after his death,…
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Sunak Visits Israel in Display of British Support
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain on Thursday began a two-day visit to Israel and the region to demonstrate British…
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Mohamed al-Fayed, Tycoon Whose Son Died With Diana, Is Dead at 94
An Egyptian businessman, he built an empire of trophy properties in London, Paris and elsewhere, but it was all overshadowed…
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Britpop’s Back. But What Happened to Cool Britannia?
Some of the biggest ’90s bands are playing major gigs across Britain again, and headlining festivals abroad. Yet Britpop’s swaggering…
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This Green and Expensive Land
Last month, the White House Council of Economic Advisers released a note comparing inflation rates among the Group of 7…
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A U.K. court sentences a former Berlin embassy worker to 13 years in prison for spying for Russia.
A British court on Friday sentenced a former security guard at Britain’s embassy in Berlin to more than 13 years…
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Zelensky thanks Britain during his second overseas trip since Russia’s invasion.
LONDON — President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine made a surprise visit to Britain on Wednesday morning, welcomed with a hug…
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