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Former U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia Manuel Rocha accused of spying for Cuba for decades

Why Franklin, Washington and Lincoln considered American democracy an ‘experiment’

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Restored Music Composed by Prisoners at Auschwitz Played Publicly for the First Time

Sellafield nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China

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