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President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks at Yokota Air Base | November 5, 2017 (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

'Populism' revealed as 2017 Word of the Year by Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Press

30 Nov 2017

̽»¨Ö±²¥word 'populism' has been announced as the Cambridge Dictionary 2017 Word of the Year.

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Pope Visits Philadelphia

Opinion: What will happen when the Pope meets the Patriarch?

09 Feb 2016

John Pollard (Trinity Hall) discusses the relationship between the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches, and what the meeting between their...

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̽»¨Ö±²¥Obelisk, St Peter's Square

Opinion: ‘Vati-leaks 2’ scandal hinders attempts by Pope Francis to reform Catholic HQ

11 Nov 2015

John Pollard (Faculty of History) discusses the latest book exposing battles for power and misbehaviour in the Vatican.

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Mitrokhin's handwritten copy of the KGB First Chief Directorate Lexicon

Mitrokhin’s KGB archive opens to public

07 Jul 2014

KGB files from the famous Mitrokhin Archive – described by the FBI as ‘the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source’ –...

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Pope Benedict XVI prays in front of the image of Our Lady of Fatima after arriving to catholic Fatima shrine in central Portugal, May 12, 2010

No Curia for old age: the radical act of papal resignation

15 Feb 2013

Dr Sara Silvestri, a specialist in religion and politics and a Research Associate with the Von Hügel Institute, St Edmund’s College, examines the...

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