North Korean traders introduce the outside world to the country’s repressed citizens, the Indian government falls short of protecting its children from sex abuse and members of the band Pussy Riot appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
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A rights group says migrant workers at the Sochi Olympic construction sites are exploited, the U.K. is the world’s top land-grabber and Iran releases footage of a missing U.S. drone
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China plans to raise the minimum wage, the European Parliament might pass a fishing reform package and Argentina speaks out about the Falklands
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The Brazilian Congress picks leaders who are accused of corruption, the BRICS nations agree to fight drug-resistant tuberculosis together and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad makes an historic visit to Egypt
You Don’t Know the Ninja: 8 New Revelations About the Shadow Warrior
Ninja are everywhere in popular culture. But who were they, really? That’s what John Man, a British travel writer and historian, set out to explore in his new book
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A growing number of people are converting to Islam in France, pawnshops in Macau bankroll mainland Chinese gamblers and Fidel Castro makes his longest public appearance since 2010
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New Delhi’s air pollution was worse than Beijing’s on Thursday, China’s surplus labor will disappear by 2025 and Argentina refuses to hold talks over Falkland Islands
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European police conduct a massive raid on a migrant smuggling ring, the Red Cross is struggling to help Europe’s new poor and did hackers with links to the Chinese military attack the New York Times?
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China appoints a new governor for Tibet, former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is in exile but wields influence from afar and Israel boycotts the U.N. Human Rights Council review
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Most countries do little to fight corruption in the arms trade, politically connected industrial companies in China have higher worker death rates and Venezuela’s president sends a letter from his sickbed in Cuba
When You’re Stuck in the Antarctic, Who You Gonna Call?
The recent rescue of a French sailor poses ethical and financial questions
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Argentina and Iran agree to form a commission to investigate a 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires, Italy makes a new push to clamp down on suspected tax evaders and Brazil mourns the loss of over 200 lives in a nightclub tragedy
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Chinese officials and parents use social media to fight child trafficking, the oldest daughter of Angola’s president is the first female billionaire in Africa and the Czechs go back to the polls