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Friends Rally to Boris Johnson After Saudi Remarks Scandal
Prime Minister Theresa May Disavows Comments, Reaffirms British-Saudi Friendship Saudi Arabia is “playing proxy wars” says FM Boris Johnson – BBC News UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson’s supporters defend the “gaffe prone” diplomat as Prime Minister Theresa May disowns his comments about Saudia Arabia engaging in “proxy wars” in the Middle East. Andrew Mitchell, former […]
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Madrid‘s Shantytown – Cañada Real Galiana – Europe‘s Largest Slum.
A haven for the drug trade (drogas), Cañada Real Galiana is Europe’s largest slum and a center a of urban poverty on a scale long thought eliminated in Western Europe. Only 15-minutes from the posh center of the Spanish capital Madrid, Cañada Real Galiana is a stretch of urban deprivation that is Europe‘s largest agglomeration of […]
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North Korea News Today
US Citizen Matthew Miller Sentenced to 6 Years Hard Labor by DPRK Supreme Court
Convicted of espionage against the state, US citizen and Bakersfield, California resident, 24-year-old Matthew Miller was sentenced to six years of hard labor by the Supreme Court of the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea. Miller allegedly destroyed his tourist visa and requested asylum in North Korea upon arrival in Pyongyang. He was arrested and detained […]
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North Korea News Today
Dennis Rodman Loves Traveling to North Korea
An apparently chummy relationship between Kim Jong-un and Dennis Rodman deepens as the controversial former NBA basketball player travels again to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to visit Pyongyang and take in the sites in one of east Asia’s most brutal dictatorships. Apparently either ignorant of the human rights situation in North Korea […]
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Father of Modern South Africa and Apartheid Opponent Nelson Mandela Dies at 95
Following a period ill health, former South African President Nelson Mandela has died at 95 years of age from a recurrent lung infection while resting in his boyhood home region of Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Nelson Mandela’s fight against white minority rule and his leadership of South Africa after the abolition of apartheid in […]
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Europe
Russia Pivots East As Relations with the West Hit 25-Year Low
Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990’s, relations between the West and the Russian Federation, successor to the Soviet state, have improved when compared to their parlous condition during the era known as the Cold War. Recently, however, Russia under Vladimir Putin has shifted its stance in an eastward facing direction, […]
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International Relations
US Secretary of State John Kerry Declares Confirmation of Chemical Weapon Use by Syria
United States Secretary of State John Kerry confirmed today what was revealed last week by international media, namely, that the government of Bashar al-Assad‘s Syrian government has used chemical weapons against its own people. Calling it a ‘moral obscenity,’ Secretary Kerry called on the world community to reject Syria’s actions and to respond collectively and […]
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Breaking News: Egypt Declares State of Emergency After Protestors Killed by Security Forces
The transitional government of Egypt has declared a national state of emergency after scores of protestors were killed by Egyptian government security forces. [BBC]
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North Korea News Today
Imprisoned in North Korea, American Kenneth Bae Gravely Ill
The imprisoned American Christian missionary Kenneth Bae, serving 15 years of hard labor for subversive activities against the government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), is reportedly ‘gravely ill’ according to his family. He is too weak to work, according to statements by his sister, Terri Chung. It was alleged by the DPRK […]
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