MANILA, Philippines (Updated 5:38 p.m.) — Juan Ponce Enrile, a storied politician with a controversial history, died on Thursday, November 13, at the age of 101. His daughter Katrina Ponce Enrile ...

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Depiction of a relief from Khorsabad, the Assyrian capital during the time of Sargon II. For roughly two centuries, from ca. 900 -- 700 BC, the Near Eastern empires of Neo-Assyria and Urartu ...

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