Oliver FARRY

4 weeks ago | france24.com | Oliver FARRY

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. A US trade court has blocked a large number of President Donald Trump's tariffs, ruling that the US constitution gives Congress the exclusive authority to regulate commerce with other countries.

4 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Oliver FARRY |Charles Pellegrin

NowBeijing CNN — A one-two punch from the United States risks shattering the already fragile trade war truce between Washington and Beijing, with Chinese tech companies and students both dealt shock blows by the Trump administration Wednesday night. Viewed from within China, things had been looking up …

1 month ago | irishtimes.com | Oliver FARRY

Martyn Whittock, a prolific and eclectic British historian, author of several books on Vikings and the old Norse world, focuses here on a lesser-known aspect of Viking history. He examines the eastward expeditions of Swedish warrior-traders, known as Varangians, in the ninth and tenth centuries that ultimately led to the establishment of the Kievan Rus in Kyiv in 988, with the coronation of Vladimir the Great.

1 month ago | irishtimes.com | Oliver FARRY

Norway’s War: A People’s Struggle Against Nazi Tyranny, 1940–1945 Author: Robert FergusonISBN-13: 978-1801104821Publisher: ApolloGuideline Price: £30The Nazi occupation of Norway is one of the internationally lesser-known episodes of the second World War, despite it giving rise to one of the most enduring pieces of vernacular from the conflict.

2 months ago | irishtimes.com | Oliver FARRY

The Great Betrayal: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the Middle East Author: Fawaz A Gerges ISBN-13: 978-0691176635Publisher: Princeton University Press Guideline Price: £30The Great Betrayalin the title of Lebanese-born American professor of international relations Fawaz A Gerges’s new book refers to the continued failure of western and Arab elites to grant the people of the Middle East the freedom they have craved since the 19th century.