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Europe wants to ready its citizens for war. Will they listen?
Survival guides, stockpiling and mass evacuation drills. Europe is scrambling to prepare its citizens for…
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60 years ago, she bit the tongue of the man who allegedly tried to rape her. Now, she’s trying to overturn her conviction
“Women and dried pollock need to be beaten every three days for better taste” –…
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UN humanitarian agency will lay off hundreds of staff due to funding crisis
The United Nations’ emergency and disaster response agency will reduce its global workforce by 20%…
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Why Trump is scrambling for allies in his trade war with China
Does America want its friends back? After three months of insulting, tariffing and even threatening…
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Xi says China ‘not afraid’ in first public comments on escalating trade war with the US
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has said his nation is “not afraid,” in his first public…
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Myanmar’s deadly earthquake exposes void left by US in global disaster responses
As civil war-torn Myanmar struggles to recover from a devastating earthquake, the United States is…
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In a first, Taiwan charges Chinese ship captain with damaging undersea cables
Taiwan prosecutors on Friday for the first time charged a Chinese ship captain with intentionally…
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Woman gives birth to another couple’s child after IVF mix-up
A major Australian IVF clinic has apologized for giving the wrong embryo to a woman…
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Japan’s biggest Yakuza crime group pledges to end decade-long gang war
Japan’s largest yakuza crime syndicate has pledged to end its longstanding war with a rival…
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US-China rivalry over Panama Canal sparks tensions, leaving Panama caught in war of words
Panama promotes itself “as the bridge of the world, heart of the universe” but lately…