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The Books FP’s Contributors Loved This Year

In 2024, Foreign Policy contributors read books that pushed them to reflect on their career experiences, reconsider the legacies of global icons, and rethink long-held beliefs about their areas of expertise. Read on for some of our favorite reviews of this year’s most thought-provoking books. 1. What the World Got Wrong About Frantz Fanon by […]

50 watches we loved this year

10 watches for world travellers Omega released a tribute to the watch NASA astronaut Walter Schirra wore on the Sigma 7 mission on the Mercury programme in 1962; there are GMTs to monitor what’s going on in multiple time zones; and water resistants that will take you deeper than ever did plummet sound. From left: […]

Families search Syria’s Sednaya Prison for loved ones after al-Assad’s fall | Syria’s War News

Rescue teams and relatives of disappeared people in Syria are searching for their loved ones at the notorious Sednaya Prison in Damascus after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s government. An intense search was under way at the jail on Monday for “hidden underground cells, reportedly holding detainees”, said the White Helmets rescue group, which dispatched emergency teams […]

Man United’s ‘always smiling’ receptionist dead at 85: Wayne Rooney leads tributes as Kath Phipps, loved by David Beckham and Sir Alex Ferguson, passes away after 56 years working for the club

Manchester United‘s much-loved receptionist Kath Phipps has died at the age of 85, the Premier League club confirmed on Thursday. Described as an ‘omnipresent figure since the late 1960s’ and a ‘one-woman institution’, Man United wrote a heartfelt 454-word tribute to honour Phipps, who worked for 55 years in a variety of roles at the club. […]