The Argentine president renews a dispute over the control of the Falkland Islands, the Vatican goes cash-only and the Western Sahara shares commonalities with the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.
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Laos pays the price of Chinese rail expansion in Southeast Asia, Africa’s energy consumption is growing fastest in the world and Latvians buckle down to weather an economic crisis.
New Year’s Eve 2012 Celebrations Kick Off
Samoa, Kiribati, and Christmas Island were the first to usher in 2013. Watch as new year’s eve celebrations around the world make their westward march.
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Three of China’s most populous regions will ease school entry restrictions for children of rural migrants and the use of torture in Mexico reached a peak during the ex-president’s tenure.
Syrian Kurds Find Refuge in an Erstwhile Homeland
Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds have fled their country’s brutal and increasingly sectarian civil war for refuge across the border in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan. The conditions at the Domiz camp may be squalid, …
What If America’s Best Ideas Were Behind It?
Tyler Cowen, a professor of economics at George Mason University, warns that innovation in the U.S. has reached a plateau and a long period of stagnation awaits.
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A surge in “honor killings” in India highlights a national scourge, Ireland’s carbon taxes deliver results and a 115-year-old Japanese man is the world’s oldest man.
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Bolivia’s unconventional war on drugs yields results, Switzerland refines two-thirds of the world’s gold and China plans to create a “Music Valley” outside of Beijing.
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The U.S. government tries to sell advanced spy drones to South Korea, China opens the world’s longest high-speed rail line and Israel reviews restrictions on women’s prayer at Jerusalem’s Western Wall.
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Critics say Russia’s potential ban on adoptions by Americans would overwhelm the country’s orphanages, China tests the world’s longest high-speed rail line and fake malaria drugs hinder progress against the disease.
In India, a Rape Sparks Violent Protests and Demands for Justice
An alleged gang rape in New Delhi has prompted calls for change by women’s-rights groups and violent clashes between police and anti-rape protests in the nation’s capital.
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Gender imbalance in China is prompting rural men to move to urban areas in search of wives, Turkey’s Internet companies are booming and Africa now has more cell phone subscribers than the U.S.
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The U.N. adds pressure on Israel to stop expanding settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the Hong Kong government makes a move to curb air pollution and Canadian authorities arrest three men over stolen maple syrup.