Donald Trump is poised to recognise a former British protectorate as an official country, according to a former UK defence secretary who lobbied the president-elect. Sir Gavin Williamson told The ...

Although Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Raja of Sarawak, British protectorate in northwest Borneo, has the power of life & death over 500,000 brown-skinned subjects, he has never been able to ...

Many changes occurred after the country became a British protectorate in 1901. For instance, Africans were forced to adopt Western education, learn English, convert to Christianity, export cash ...

Once a poor British protectorate, the small nation became an independent state in 1971. Now rich in oil and natural gas, Qatar is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Just over half of ...