Portugal Last week, appellate courts in Portugal turned down the appeal of a former undercover US Central Intelligence Agency operative who sought to contest her…
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Japan A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck southern Japan near the city of Kumamoto on Saturday morning around 1:25 a.m. local time, killing at least 19…
Vatican City On Friday, Pope Francis called on Catholics around the world to be more tolerant in practice towards homosexuals, but did not speak about…
Egypt & Cyprus An Egyptian national who falsely claimed that he was armed with lethal explosives hijacked an EgyptAir plane carrying 71 people last week,…
China Last Friday the Chinese government officially banned all depictions of homosexuals on television, labeling programs that do so as “vulgar, immoral and unhealthy content.”…
Morocco Morocco switched on what will eventually be the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant on Thursday. The new site, near the city of Ouarzazate, will…
North Korea North Korean officials announced Friday that the country would be holding a US student in detention for committing an unspecified “hostile act” while…
China China’s Communist Party announced on Thursday that married couples across the country will now be allowed to have two children, effectively ending the “one…
China’s Jinping opines on UK-EU spat While visiting the United Kingdom on Thursday, Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed that he wants to see a united…
The United States & Afghanistan President Barack Obama announced last Thursday that he will prolong the United States’ military presence in Afghanistan through most of 2016,…