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Top grades, top class: Hyesan schools rank students

Some junior and senior middle schools in Hyesan, a North Korean border city, began sorting students into ranked classes by grades in 2026. The shift has set off fierce...

Fearing a slip, North Koreans avoid saying “unification”

North Koreans still think of South Koreans as members of the same nation, but...

North Koreans fed up with folk remedies as colds spread

A wave of respiratory illness is sweeping parts of North Korea as the seasons...

Deputy FM hosts reception for 65th Liberal International Congress

Deputy Foreign Minister Chen Ming-chi hosted a reception Nov. 4 in Taipei City to...

Swiss lawmakers look to boost arms exports 

Weapon shipments to Ukraine would nevertheless remain banned, according to the cabinet proposal  ...

Several people wounded in Swiss stabbing spree

The knifeman was arrested after attacking passersby seemingly at random ...

EU issues warning to Israel

Failure to end the Rafah offensive “immediately” would undermine ties, according to a statement ...

Putin reveals why he replaced Russia’s defense minister

Moscow needs to mind both “guns and butter,” the president has said ...

China hopes to weaken US supremacy, and it knows where the weakest link lies

Bejing knows the EU’s leading states don’t want to break off relations, and it’s placing its bets on them holding firm ...

Kiev can decide ‘for itself’ how to use US weapons – Blinken

Washington is only “committed to making sure” that Ukraine has everything it needs to “succeed,” the US Secretary of State has said ...

China won’t attend Zelensky’s ‘peace conference’ – Putin aide

Beijing understands that discussing a resolution to the Ukraine crisis is pointless without Russia taking part, Yury Ushakov says ...

Slovak PM Robert Fico: Noted critic of Western approach to Ukraine conflict

Shots targeting the premier were also aimed at Russian-Slovak relations, a Moscow lawmaker has said ...

US tycoon launches bid to buy TikTok

Frank McCourt has announced plans to acquire the Chinese-owned social media app’s American business ...

US ‘urgently’ trying to find Patriot missile systems for Ukraine – Blinken

Kiev says it needs more of the costly air-defense systems than Washington can provide ...

UN launches probe after staff member killed in Gaza – Reuters

A former Indian Army officer died this week as a result of an unidentified strike on a car belonging to the organization ...

EU state’s leader calls for end to Ukraine conflict

It is naive to think that Kiev can recapture all the territories it claims as its own from Russia, Czech President Petr Pavel says ...

WATCH first purported images of attack on Slovak PM

Robert Fico was rushed to the hospital after reportedly being hit by four gunshots on Wednesday ...

Slovak prime minister shot: Live updates

Robert Fico was wounded when an assailant fired multiple shots outside a government meeting ...

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