VIENTIANE: Some 156 members of the National Assembly (NA) on Thursday (March 20) unanimously approved the merger of four ...

A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean brass bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.

KGB officer’s intelligence was crucial to Margaret Thatcher’s contacts with Mikhail Gorbachev, whose rise to power helped end ...

In the 1980s, his intelligence helped avoid a dangerous escalation of nuclear tensions between the USSR and the West.