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Hazlitt got gloomily drunk for a fortnight after the battle of Waterloo, accurately anticipating that decades of reaction lay ahead, now that Boney had been definitely put away, with the Holy Alliance in the saddle and the French contagion safely bottled up. Smart fellow, that Hazlitt. He should have stayed drunk for a month. More

ISLAMABAD: Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kiyani of the Islamabad High Court expressed displeasure over the Missing Persons Commis­sion during a hea­ring on the recovery of Mudassar Khan, a citizen reportedly missing from Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

Hazlitt got gloomily drunk for a fortnight after the battle of Waterloo, accurately anticipating that decades of reaction lay ahead, now that Boney had been definitely put away, with the Holy Alliance in the saddle and the French contagion safely bottled up. Smart fellow, that Hazlitt. He should have stayed drunk for a month. More

The New York Knicks (19-10) and Victor Wembanyama's San Antonio Spurs (15-14) play at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, December 25, (...)

We saw millions of workers displaced in manufacturing, as our trade deficit ballooned from 1997 to 2007. Communities across the industrial heartland were devastated as the factories that supported them downsized or shut altogether. We can have lengthy debates about the motives of working-class people who switched from Democrats to Trump voters, but the fact that Democratic presidents pushed trade policies that destroyed millions of good paying jobs for non-college educated workers is not really in dispute. Читать дальше...

KL Rahul will be celebrating a ten-year work anniversary of his kind, but on the field when the Boxing Day Test against Australia begins at a packed Melbourne Cricket Ground, the same place where he...

The biblical narrative of Herod’s decision to butcher some 3,000 innocent children inspired Rennaissance and Baroque artists to produce hundreds of dramatic and powerful harrowing canvases of all sizes. Under the title The Massacre of the Innocents, this genocide, ordered and overseen by Herod, has been memorialized in art by Peter Paul Rubens, Guido Reni, More

It really shouldn't come as a surprise that the ruling class failed in their attempt to make CEO Shooter Luigi Mangione look terrifying in that failed Perp Walk. I'm sure you all saw it, the man was thronged with everything and everyone that could be utilized to make him look wildly dangerous, at least in the eyes of those who truly do not understand the pulsing discontent everyday Americans have. I don't think a moment like this could have happened even 10 years ago. More

Before his departure from royal life, Prince Harry was beloved for his cheeky sense of humour - something that was seen when he chose a very unexpected Christmas gift for the late Queen

Sandwiches are usually the go-to, right? They are super versatile, easy to make, and can be customised endlessly.

LeBron James and Stephen Curry meet on Christmas for the fourth, and perhaps, the final time as Lakers and the Warriors hope to rebound from narrow home defeats

The crash occurred on Atkinson Street and was reported just after 3:10pm.

“When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, the work of Christmas begins: to find the lost, to heal the broken, to feed the hungry, to release the prisoner, to rebuild the More

When Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams launched to the space station in June, they expected to stay for just eight days. But they’re still there.

What the Romans called “the new sun” has risen. The seed catalogs are arriving and while the wood stove’s fire struggles against the strengthening cold, a new year is being born. This theme of death and rebirth, ebb and the flow has long occupied human thought and practice. Huge stones, hauled great distances and erected More

Sheikh Hasina’s son, Sajeeb Wazed, labels the allegations of corruption linked to the $12.65 billion Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant contract as baseless and politically motivated. The Bangladesh Anti-Corruption Commission has launched an inquiry into financial irregularities involving Hasina and her relatives. Wazed denies involvement, citing no offshore accounts or illicit dealings.

India is set to maintain robust FDI inflows in 2025, bolstered by investor-friendly policies, infrastructure development, and targeted sectoral reforms. With a focus on boosting manufacturing and easing regulatory processes, the government continues to attract substantial foreign investment, surpassing USD one trillion in cumulative FDI inflows since April 2000.

If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose Refaat Alareer (OR Books) The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888 Robin Blackburn (Verso) Everyone Who is Gone is Here: the United States, Central America and the Making of a Crisis Jonathan Blitzer (Penguin) A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through 40 Years of Wolf Recovery More

Nigel Farage has said he is willing to help incoming US ambassador Lord Mandelson negotiate with Donald Trump's administration.

Since the beginning of this century, triggered by the US’s illegal invasion of Iraq, its occupation of Afghanistan, and aided by the arrival of the turbo-charged digital age, there has been a significant growth in interest within those in the non-Western world around issues related to their colonial past. This quest has been shaped by seeking answers to fundamental questions linked to events in More

MALASIQUI, Pangasinan — The municipality of Bolinao has imposed a ban on the manufacture, sale, distribution, and use of firecrackers and pyrotechnic devices ahead of the revelries this Yuletide Season. Bolinao Mayor Alfonso Celeste, in Executive Order (EO) 70 dated Dec. 20 and posted on the local government’s official social media pages Monday night, said

Strong, visionary, decisive leadership has been missing for so long in America, we don’t even know what it looks like anymore. Arrogance and charisma are not the same as leadership. George W. Bush was as arrogant as they come and Barack Obama was as charismatic as it gets. Biden … well, he is bellicose, belligerent, More

According to emergency services, the incident was caused by a household gas explosion

THE FATE of Stockmann department stores will remain up in the air until next year, reports STT.

Arindam Mandal of Marcellus suggests Nasdaq could see higher EPS growth than Nifty50 in 2025, emphasizing quality stocks outside Big Tech. He advises Indian investors to diversify with 15-30% in international markets, focusing on themes like Technological Disruption, Industrial Revival, and Aging Demographics.