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With war ravaging Europe’s heartland again, the countless headstones, cemeteries and memorials from World War I are a timeless testimony to its cruelty. Belgium and France want them recognized as UNESCO World Heritage sites to make sure people stop and think. They bring pause and introspection to just about everyone visiting the sites dotted along […]

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is reportedly scheduled to travel to Russia this month to meet with President Vladimir Putin as the two countries move toward an arms deal.  The New York Times reported Monday that Kim plans to meet with Putin while both leaders attend the Eastern Economic Forum at Far Eastern Federal […]

Hong Kong’s government will have to set up a new legal framework to recognize same-sex marriage registered overseas, its top court ruled Tuesday, ending a five-year legal battle. The decision is the latest in a series of cases in recent years that have pushed the city towards accepting the LGBTQ+ community. In the landmark court […]

A small gathering of royal enthusiasts and their corgis took place on Sunday to honor of the one-year anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Roughly 20 British monarchists and their corgis gathered to walk in a parade outside Buckingham Palace. The late monarch famously loved the breed, owning various corgis since she was a child. […]

A pilot died during a gender reveal stunt in Mexico when the small plane he was flying crashed while dumping pink smoke on the expecting couple. The video posted online shows a couple standing in front of a sign that reads, “Oh baby,” that is decorated with pink and blue balloons in San Pedro, Mexico. […]

Russia has likely proposed that North Korea participate in three-way naval exercises with China, according to a lawmaker who attended a closed-door briefing with the director of South Korea’s top spy agency Monday. The briefing came days after Russia’s Ambassador to North Korea, Alexander Matsegora, told Russian media that including North Korea in joint military […]

Sudan’s top military general held talks in Juba Monday with South Sudan’s president on his second trip abroad since the war in his country started earlier this year. Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, chairman of the ruling Sovereign Council, arrived in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, Monday morning and was received by President Salva Kiir. Both leaders […]

The majority party that dominates the parliament in Georgia has launched a campaign to impeach the country’s president, even though the effort appears unlikely to succeed. The Georgian Dream party, which is increasingly at odds with President Salome Zourabichvili despite endorsing her election in 2018, announced the effort last week. It said Zourabichvili violated the […]

Hanke Bruins Slot, a military veteran who served with the Dutch army in Afghanistan, was appointed Monday as the Netherlands’ new foreign minister. She replaces Wopke Hoekstra, who is in line to become a European Union commissioner. Bruins Slot had been interior minister in the caretaker administration of outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte. His government […]

The small band of soldiers gather outside to share cigarettes and war stories, sometimes casually and sometimes with a degree of testiness over recollections made unreliable by their last day fighting, the day the war took away their limbs. Some clearly remember the moment they were hit by anti-tank mines, aerial bombs, a missile, a […]