However, the Caesar ... where Julius Caesar was laid to rest (the Forum), and "the best-preserved temple from ancient Rome" (as Steves called the Pantheon). St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City ...

Watch out for that bat behind you,” warned Luca Messina, a civil engineer who moonlights as a speleo-archaeologist with Sotterranei di Roma, Undergrounds of Rome, a local group whose members explore ...

Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Vatican secretary for relations with states and international organizations, and Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s minister of foreign affairs, had a phone call on Friday in ...

The United States has firmly rejected a suggestion by French politician Raphael Glucksmann that the Statue of Liberty should be returned to France, dismissing his remarks as unwarranted and ...

A French Parliament member is demanding that the U.S. return the Statue of Liberty to France, who gifted it to the Americans in the 1880s. Center-left politician Raphaël Glucksmann made the ...

The White House on Monday pushed back on a French politician who called for the United States to return the Statue of Liberty to France, jabbing the “low-level” French lawmaker. “Absolutely ...

A rumor that circulated online in March 2025 claimed U.S. President Donald Trump ordered "military raids on Vatican tunnels." For example, one Facebook user's post (archived) began, "BREAKING!

Like Caesar, a Syrian man whose real name is Farid ... the dictator off the walls of offices and cafés and destroyed his statues. Mass graves in Syria were exhumed – after 54 years of dictatorship.

Jurenzo Julius receives the Junior Springbok Player of the Year Award from Rian Oberholzer (SA Rugby CEO, right) and Harry Kellen (FNB CEO, left) during the SA Rugby Awards 2024. Picture ...

A French politician has called on the US to give the Statue of Liberty back after suggesting that some Americans “have chosen to switch to the side of the tyrants.” Raphael Glucksmann ...

David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...