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On 13 May 1981, Mehmet Ali Ağca shot Pope John Paul II in St Peter’s Square. The pope survived and publicly expressed forgiveness while recovering. More than two years later, on 27…
1:05The Taliban’s entry into Kabul in August 2021 was followed by desperate attempts to leave Afghanistan through the airport. People gathered around military aircraft while an international…
0:58Images of Tehran before the 1979 revolution often show a society very different from the one viewers expect. They can reveal fashions, cultural activity and the ambitions of Pahlavi-era…
1:23Repeated electoral defeat does not always end a political career. This video compares opposition figures including Raila Odinga, Hakainde Hichilema, Ranil Wickremesinghe, Gennady Zyuganov…
2:37Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk confronted different political crises. This video brings them together as an editorial…
2:36Vladimir Putin became acting president of Russia on 31 December 1999, when Boris Yeltsin announced his resignation. The transfer of authority came after Putin had already risen to the…
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