After being exploited for decades by France, Haiti ended up forking over huge sums of money to its former colonizer. Now, the ...

Even when companies do not face legal liability, public pressure can help force a reckoning with complicity in genocide, ...

Few cities in the world can claim the same level of fame, of culture and possessing the level of prestige in the art world as ...

France officially abolishes slavery across its territories. Toussaint Louverture, who had fought with the Spanish against France to end slavery in Saint-Domingue, expelled the Spanish from Santo ...

In life Francis I, 'Most Christian King' of a France that only sixty years before his accession had finally expelled English occupiers from the realm (and had still to tolerate Calais as an English ...

Microsoft goes public at $21 per share, which increases to $35.50 before the end of the day. Bill Gates sells $1.6 million in shares, retaining a 45% stake in the company worth $350 million ...

The Star Wars timeline is epic, to say the least. It's made up of everything from TV shows, to tie-in novels, video games, comic books - and of course, the movies. It can be a lot of to keep track ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that France and Britain will lead a contingent of European countries to support any future peace deal in Ukraine despite a lack of unanimity among ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz join France’s President Emmanuel Macron and Zelensky for what will be the third meeting of the “coalition of the ...