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Gulbadan Begum was the daughter of the founder of the Mughal Empire. She is the only Mughal woman known to have ...

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In 2004, the House of Lords allowed the appeal of nine foreign nationals against their indefinite detention under the ...

Israel’s codename for its attack on Iran, launched last Friday, was Operation Rising Lion, a pointed reference ...

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