The Iraqi Prime Minister launched on Thursday the construction works of five new hospitals in different Iraqi provinces.

On 18 March 1965, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to spacewalk. He spent around 10 minutes floating above the Earth, tethered to the spaceship by a 5m “umbilical cord”.

On March 17, 1776, the Continental Army under Gen. George Washington forced British troops to evacuate Boston.

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Al Mawrid Arab Centre for the Study of Art at NYU Abu Dhabi has released thousands of newly digitised documents on its online ...

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Without dwelling on it, “Lincoln’s Peace” mentions multiple times another failure during the Civil War that reverberates today: Newspapers during the Civil War often presented starkly different ...