Known for its glittering coastline, the French island of Corsica has a rugged side, too. I clung to the face of the limestone ...

One of the oldest Neolithic dwellings in France, attributed to the early Cardial period, is currently being excavated. This is the second known site from this period in France.

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When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

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Ukraine has made good on its promise to halt the transport of Russian gas to Europe through its territory after a key deal with Moscow expired on Wednesday. Ukraine’s refusal to renew the ...

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MOSCOW/KYIV-Russian gas exports via Soviet-era pipelines running through Ukraine were halted on New Year’s Day, marking the end of decades of Moscow’s dominance over Europe’s energy markets.