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Thu, 30/06/2016 - 00:08
Westerners said the web could never be controlled. Lu Wei, China's departing internet czar, proved them all wrong.
Wed, 29/06/2016 - 23:01
The country's top court declined to revisit a law that targets gay sex — the latest setback for the subcontinent’s LGBT community and its struggle for equality.
Wed, 29/06/2016 - 22:11
The Islamic State seized a trove of weapons from U.S.-backed rebels, including U.S. ammunition, mortars, and a pickup truck.
Wed, 29/06/2016 - 21:39
Young Syrians living in Lebanon are attempting suicide in ever greater numbers.
Wed, 29/06/2016 - 20:28
How Democrats changed their decades-old approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict — and why the fight isn’t over yet.
Wed, 29/06/2016 - 20:15
More than two months after a convoy of vehicles carrying Samantha Power hit and killed a Cameroonian child, the family is being paid by Washington.
Wed, 29/06/2016 - 18:21
The Senate gives Puerto Rico a reprieve two days before a debt deadline.
Wed, 29/06/2016 - 16:29
Every service occasionally goes through a slump.
Wed, 29/06/2016 - 16:26
General George Crook distrusted the whites on the frontier, and believed they had a vested interest in riling up the Indians so the Army would stick around.
Wed, 29/06/2016 - 16:24
I couldn't see the big picture from a lance corporal's perspective on the ground.
Wed, 15/06/2016 - 22:56
The president should have turned the tables on Trump by using the phrase "Islamic extremism."
Wed, 15/06/2016 - 22:45
When riot police, casual racism, and small-scale arson are part of an average weekend game, is it any wonder that Russian soccer fans’ trip to France turned ugly?
Wed, 15/06/2016 - 22:40
Muslim religious leaders who condemn acts of terror but promulgate intolerance are fanning the flames of hatred.
Wed, 15/06/2016 - 22:04
Following the mass shooting in Orlando, a large group of House Republicans are seeking to immediately ban all refugees from resettling in the United States regardless of country origin or profile, according to a memo and draft legislation obtained by Foreign Policy. The measure would go even further than Donald Trump’s controversial proposal to block the immigration of Muslims.
Wed, 15/06/2016 - 21:16
Watch British rockstar Bob Geldof intercept a flotilla of pro-Brexit fishermen.
Wed, 15/06/2016 - 21:05
A new report from the speaker of the House on national security sets out a dramatically different course than the GOP presidential nominee. Is anyone listening?
Wed, 15/06/2016 - 20:30
Foreign-language teachers in China often become accidental confidants, even therapists.
Wed, 15/06/2016 - 20:23
A lot of bad things happened. It was bad war. That said, Trump isn’t making things any better.
Wed, 15/06/2016 - 20:04
If Libya’s friends in the West want to boost effective governance, they need to cultivate the grassroots.
Wed, 15/06/2016 - 18:59
The Kremlin says France's detention of a busload of suspected hooligans is discriminatory.
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