The international community is reeling from comments made this week by Andrej Illarionov, president Vladimir Putin’s former chief economic adviser, that the Russian strongman has long term plans to reclaim parts of “Georgia,…
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North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire Monday across a disputed United Nations-mandated sea border. North Korean forces fired some 500 rounds into the ocean on the South Korean side;…
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Zurich’s Swiss Re, the world’s second-largest reinsurer, has published its global ranking of cities under threat from natural disasters — and a US city is in the top 10. For the…
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When it comes to stories about North Korea and its wacky yet deadly regime, it’s often hard to tell what’s true, what’s an urban legend, and what is South Korean…
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Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, the so-called “Bishop of Bling,” resigned as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg in Germany, in the wake of criticism from Pope Francis and others after a…
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On Saturday, Pope Francis announced the newest member of the special commission he has put together to confront the Catholic Church’s chronic sexual abuse problems. Marie Collins, who was molested…
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North Korean boy dictator Kim Jong-un is forcing his male citizens to cut their hair the way he wears it, according to Radio Free Asia. But recent visitors to the…
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Former Editor: Bloomberg Buried Investigative Piece to Avoid Angering Chinese Government
Bloomberg News editor-at-large in Asia Ben Richardson has quit Michael Bloomberg’s business-oriented news agency, in protest of his editors burying an investigative piece on Chinese elites. According to the New York Times,…
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A petition posted to the White House web site seeks for the state of Alaska to secede from the US and rejoin Russia. The petition, which may or may not…
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The Group of Eight (G8) forum, a coalition of the eight leading industrialized countries, is now the Group of Eight-minus-One. Russia, the last nation to join the former G7 in…