The Bank of China closes the account of North Korea’s main foreign exchange bank, France struggles to contain radical Islam in its prisons and the hacktivist group Anonymous said it may target Aung San Suu Kyi
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The CDC says the current strain of bird flu cannot cause a pandemic, why is Chinese art underrepresented around the world and Germany has experienced its biggest spike in immigration in almost two decades
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North Korea’s nuclear weapons might be able to reach the U.S., Egypt has no family planning policy despite its surging birthrate and Japan is set to build its first overseas nuclear plant since the Fukushima meltdown of 2011
Venezuela’s Brawl Is the Latest Edition of Parliament Fight Club
The first rule of Parliament Fight Club is try not to be among the opposition. On the evening of April 30, members of Venezuela’s political opposition, including a former presidential candidate, were apparently roughed up by …
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Sri Lanka intensifies its crackdown on dissenters, the U.K. decides to stop all direct aid to South Africa by 2015 and China’s manufacturing sector has slowed
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Cellphones are polluting the world and the Irish coalition government is expected to sign off on draft legislation that will lead to limited abortion in the republic
The Reign of Spain: Can Roca Ousts Noma as World’s Best Restaurant
The king is dead; long live the king. Just when it seem that the food world had moved definitively beyond the high-wire pyrotechnics of modern Spanish cooking to embrace the less adorned lichen and sea buckthorn of new Nordic …
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Venezuela’s electoral body will audit the votes cast in the presidential election, almost 5 million people live in New Delhi’s illegal settlements and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is traveling to Russia
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NGOs say cost-cutting by Western fashion retailers led to the factory disaster in Bangladesh, Russia uses child adoption as a bargaining tool with Ireland’s parliament, and the president of Serbia has apologized for the …
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Media freedom is declining in Bulgaria, China leads the world in cyber espionage and public confidence in the European Union has fallen to a record low in its six biggest countries
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France approves a same-sex marriage bill, the Vietnamese Communist Party struggles with growing dissent and China is planning to build more aircraft carriers
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Paraguay’s new president needs to tackle the country’s poverty, continued hikes in food prices could destabilize Iran before its presidential election and North Korea has rejected U.S. calls to show it’s serious about abandoning …
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A record number of civil war victims are found in Syria, Denmark tries to lean its citizens off generous government benefits and a Chinese official has called for the country’s 100 million religious believers to abandon their …