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North Korea shifts education costs onto the public with new funding law

North Korea has formalized a system requiring institutions, enterprises, and ordinary citizens to financially support state education through a newly obtained law, shifting the cost of educational development away...

Built by Pyongyang: The North Korean company behind Africa’s most iconic monuments

North Korea has long relied on unconventional means to earn hard currency in the...

N. Korea arrests official for quoting Kim Il Sung in Kim Jong Un session

A provincial party official in North Hamgyong province was seized by State Information Bureau...

North Korean elite school student expelled for tutoring during school holiday

A student at an elite provincial school in North Hamgyong province has been forcibly...

UK minister: Cyber strategy can help spread opportunity across Britain

LONDON — Like so much of Boris Johnson’s policy, the U.K.’s new cyber strategy will come in a distinctly domestic wrapper. Britain’s flagship cybersecurity blueprint should...

Women’s basketball team takes knee, star claims racial discrimination in row about hair

A women's basketball star has claimed that an apparent order for players to tie up braided hair was "clear racial discrimination" after her team...

Leering and catcalling now listed as prosecutable offences

British police have been given a new toolkit to fight back against an “epidemic” of misogyny and sexual harassment, with acts such as leering...

WATCH: Fire engulfs police college in Rome

A huge blaze has broken out at a school for Italy’s national gendarmerie in Rome, with one person reportedly injured. Footage from the scene...

Energy crisis coming as global oil production set to plunge by a third

Global crude production is expected to drop 30% by the end of the current decade due to underinvestment in oil and gas, according to...

Company apologizes for comparing women to cows (VIDEO)

South Korea’s leading milk producer, Seoul Dairy Cooperative, has found itself in hot water after releasing an ad that depicts women as cows. It...

ECHR orders Russia to pay $418,000 to woman after hands cut off by husband

Russia must pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to victims of domestic violence, including a woman who had her hands hacked off in a...

Gay dating app hit with $7mn fine for data breach

Grindr, an LGBT+ online dating application, has been fined around $7.14 million by the Norwegian regulator for not complying with the data protection rules...

Salah fans furious at latest FIFA snub

Despite his free-scoring form for Liverpool in 2021, Mohamed Salah has been sensationally excluded from the FIFA FIFPRO World XI squad – and his...

Most Russians blame NATO for Ukraine crisis – poll

Just 4% of Russians believe the recent increase in tensions with Ukraine has been caused by Moscow, with the majority blaming either the US,...

Island mouse-hunt turns $9mn failure

A multimillion dollar attempt to eliminate mice from the South Atlantic Gough Island for the sake of endangered seabirds has failed, leaving the island’s...

US Olympic queen and her Russian wife reveal baby news after secret 2-year marriage

A two-time Olympic women's basketball champion has revealed that she married her Russian wife and fellow female player two years ago in secret –...

Iran releases Israel map with multiple targets marked

Iran has decided to bolster its traditional threats against archrival Israel with visual materials, publishing a map of the Jewish state marked with numerous...

The Year in US Foreign Policy

https://ift.tt/2kmUBVA. President Joe Biden came into office with the message “America is back,” and he promised that diplomacy would replace military power as the...

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