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South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Thursday struck down a controversial adultery law which for more than 60 years had criminalised extra-marital sex and jailed...
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Communist Cuba’s revolution has held sway for so long — 56 years — that those who remember no other system are nearing retirement age...
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China should roll back its one-child policy and instead mandate that all couples have two children, a family planning official has said, drawing criticism...
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To illustrate my point, yesterday, after 14 hours of meetings, calls, and pan-Siberian cold here in Toronto, I stopped at a local shop on...
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Time magazine on Wednesday named as its “Person of the Year 2014” the medics treating the Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 6,300...
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Turkey is pursuing a delicate but potentially dangerous strategy over the besieged Syrian town of Kobane, working to thwart Kurdish domination of northern Syria...
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Russia on Sunday is set to turn back its clocks to winter time permanently in a move backed by President Vladimir Putin, reversing a...
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After the bombs, the fur coats. After the air raids, the air kisses. After six months of war, even the fighters attending an opening...
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With the world on high alert over foreign fighters joining jihadist ranks in Syria and Iraq, Balkan states are launching efforts to clamp down...
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Japanese police on Thursday arrested the leader of a particularly brutal yakuza organised crime syndicate for allegedly gunning down a man in public, a...