The government held 60th birthday celebrations, which included skaters holding aloft a giant flag down a 19th-century canal in Ottawa ... over from its past as a British colony.

This month marks 140 years since Western powers sidelined Africans and carved up ‘ownership’ of the continent.

A week after the tanker crash off the English coast, officials are trying to work out the damage done — and who is going to ...

seeking to take control of the Suez Canal with no one to stop them, as they had nearly a quarter of a million men. Europe had already been immersed in World War II for a year, and Mussolini had ...

The message is clear: if you want access to US markets, you must be willing to strike what President Trump considers a fair deal, whether in trade, economics, or national security ...

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especially its control of Egypt and the Suez Canal transport route. Germany, too, was worried about conflicting areas with the British, such as Cameroon. The Bismarck-led talks lasted from ...

The Armistice of Mudros (October 31, 1918) gave Great Britain a controlling influence over the Ottoman territories, while the Treaty of Sèvres (1920) was to have sealed British dominance ... that such ...

Cecil Rhodes, had at that time begun to realize his imperialistic dreams, that is, his efforts to extend the British authority towards the north ... He looked upon these domains as a thoroughfare, a ...