The House of Orange made over half a billion dollars from its colonies in a century, a government-commissioned study found The Netherlands’ House of Orange profited from its colonial holdings by about 3 million guilders – $600 million (€547 million) in contemporary value – from 1675 to 1770, according to a government-commissioned State and Slavery study, presented…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended the policy of moving Ukrainian children from areas hit by the fighting to Russia and rejected accusations that the practice was illegal.  “We were moving them out of the conflict zone, saving their lives – this is what’s been happening,” Putin said on Saturday during a meeting with a…

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