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Listening to how North Koreans talk

A film I watched recently added Korean subtitles to a conversation between North Korean characters, as though they were speaking a foreign language. Eight decades after the peninsula was...

Empty-handed farmers drive up rice prices

Farm workers in South Hwanghae province are flooding local markets to buy rice in...

Taiwan, Japan collaborate on urban greening

The Ministry of Environment hosted a meeting on building resilient, greener cities Nov. 3...

FM Lin hosts Paraguay delegation

Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung hosted a banquet for a five-member delegation led by Paraguay...

Grove of Giant Sequoias Threatened by California Wildfire

https://ift.tt/1zm4hcq largest grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park remained closed Saturday, a day after hundreds of people were ordered to evacuate as...

‘Sopranos’ Actor Tony Sirico, ‘Paulie Walnuts,’ Dies at 79

https://ift.tt/w9O1lT8 Sirico, who played the impeccably groomed mobster Paulie Walnuts in The Sopranos and brought his tough-guy swagger to films including Goodfellas, died Friday....

Incomplete Grade? Columbia Loses Ranking over Dubious Data

https://ift.tt/5cfjNrm. News & World Report has unranked Columbia University from its 2022 edition of Best Colleges, saying in a statement that the Ivy League...

US Imposes Visa Restrictions on 28 Cuban Officials

https://ift.tt/DHomyGY U.S. State Department announced visa restrictions Saturday against 28 Cuban officials that it said were implicated in a crackdown on peaceful protests in...

SriLanka: Why Protesters took over President’s Residence

Thousands of protesters have stormed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's residence in the capital of Sri Lanka. Demonstrators from all over the country marched to Colombo demanding...

Public Must Be 2.5 Meters Away When Filming Police in Arizona

https://ift.tt/rUIJxqV new Arizona law restricts how close the public can be when filming police activity. Republican Governor Doug Ducey signed the law this week making...

Top Diplomats for US, China Meet to Reduce Tensions

https://ift.tt/DHomyGY top diplomats from the United States and China are meeting Saturday in an effort to reduce growing tensions between the two countries. U.S. Secretary...

US Abortion Ruling Threatens Access to Arthritis Drug

https://ift.tt/xNil8LY Melissa, a nurse in the U.S. state of Alabama, went to pick up her regular prescription medication for rheumatoid arthritis last week, she...

Higher US Gas Prices Hurt Pockets, Make Small Dent in Emissions

https://ift.tt/OCVtQPv Congress and now the Supreme Court stymie the Biden administration's efforts to curb climate change, one thing the president doesn't want — sky...

Texas Judge Blocks Investigations Of 2 Trans Youth Families

https://ift.tt/rUIJxqV Texas judge issued an order Friday to continue blocking the state from investigating two families of transgender youth who have received gender affirming...

China Demands End to US-Taiwan Military ‘Collusion’ 

https://ift.tt/4H28pfh has demanded the U.S. cease what it called military collusion with Taiwan. During a virtual meeting Thursday between the joint chiefs of staff from...

4 U.S. Border Agency Workers’ Treatment of Haitians Reviewed

https://ift.tt/NUCrW6h U.S Customs and Border Protection employees have been referred for disciplinary review over their treatment of Haitian migrants they sought to push back...

UN Weekly Roundup: July 2-8, 2022 

https://ift.tt/R0qtjZ5 is a fast take on what the international community has been up to this past week, as seen from the United Nations perch. Syria...

Heavy-Handed Police Response to Media in LA Comes After New Law

https://ift.tt/Rid4fsx on filming a police car, Vishal Singh was shocked to look up from his camera and find himself “staring down the barrel” of...

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