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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...

Russian Olympic queen shares news after surgery

Anna Shcherbakova had a knee operation in Germany on Thursday ...

Yuan trounces dollar on Moscow Exchange

Western sanctions accelerate Russia’s pivot east ...

EU weighs in on visa restrictions for Russians

An official has explained that no member state has so far ceased issuing visas “completely” ...

Russia relocates jets armed with hypersonic missiles

Planes equipped with Kinzhal projectiles have been deployed to the country’s western exclave of Kaliningrad, Moscow says ...

Russia explains terms for nuclear arms use

Moscow says it’s committed to avoiding the use of atomic weapons, except to prevent its own destruction ...

UK consumer spending plunges – report

Britons are cutting back on credit and debit card charging, official data shows ...

Tyson Fury explains how to defeat Ukrainian world champion (VIDEO)

Tyson Fury says Anthony Joshua requires a specific strategy against Aleksandr Usyk in their rematch ...

Video game giant buys rights to ‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’

Embracer Group goes on a spending spree and also acquires a number of gaming studios ...

Russia warns of another Chernobyl over Ukraine’s attacks

Kiev’s shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant could result in a worst-case scenario, Moscow warns ...

No longer a pariah? Russia and China could be about to ‘normalise’ North Korea and leave the US with another Asian headache

Once a Cold War proxy battleground for superpowers, is the Korean peninsula being pulled apart by bloc politics again? ...

Finnish PM responds to drug allegations

Leaked videos of Sanna Marin on a night out have exposed the 36-year-old leader to criticism ...

What’s behind the surge in America’s youth crime?

Bereft of two crucial authority figures – their fathers and the police, youngsters struggle to find their place ...

Eurozone inflation hits all-time high

Consumer prices in the 19-member currency bloc have risen by 8.9% in the past year, the highest rate ever recorded ...

EU gas prices seven times higher than in US – CNN

Soaring fuel costs threaten to send the continent's economies into recession ...

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