The 19th-century power struggle between the Sikhs, the British, and the Afghans shaped the political landscape of the time.

MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters)-- Russian explorers have dived deep below the North Pole in a submersible and planted their national flag on the seabed to stake a symbolic claim to the energy riches of ...

MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/. The German embassy in Russia has issued apologies for posting a map with a wrong flag of the Soviet Union on social media.

MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was appalled at how the German embassy in Moscow posted maps of the post-war Europe with a distorted Soviet flag on its ...

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