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Beyond hereditary rule: The remaking of Kim Jong Un’s system

North Korea analysts have long viewed Kim Jong Un’s government through a familiar lens: a third-generation hereditary dictatorship sustained by the same tools of terror and ideology that kept...

North Korea courts Chinese private investors for Pyongyang commercial complex

North Korea is pushing to develop a large commercial complex in Pyongyang’s Hwasong district...

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...

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...

EU lawmakers vote to ban online ads targeting children amid broader tech crackdown

STRASBOURG — European lawmakers Tuesday voted to ban online ads that target children, ramping up a crackdown on Big Tech platforms and their content...

EU court sides with LGBT couple in ‘huge’ development

The European Court of Justice (CJEU) has ruled that member states must recognize LGBT+ parents and their children as one family, after Bulgarian authorities...

Roblox is a threat to children, new investigation alleges

A new investigation by YouTube channel People Make Games accuses the video game platform Roblox of replicating the dirtiest practices of the unregulated gaming...

Major British bank fined for laundering trash bags full of cash

NatWest, the UK’s biggest business bank, has been fined £265 million ($350 million) for failing to prevent the laundering of nearly £400 million. It’s...

McGregor renews Dagestan feud as he insults rival Makhachev

UFC loudmouth Conor McGregor has again taken a shot at one of Dagestan's most famous fighters, this time hurling an insult at top-ranked lightweight...

Unit behind notorious Pegasus spyware on brink of shutdown – reports

The owners of the NSO Group, which hit headlines this year for creating and selling Pegasus spyware to governments around the world, is reportedly...

Study reveals how effective Pfizer vaccine is against Omicron

New analysis released from South Africa suggests that two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine are considerably less effective in battling the Omicron variant...

Google & Apple have ‘vice-like’ grip on consumers – regulator

The UK’s competition regulator has blasted US tech giants Google and Apple for their tight control over consumers’ choices and the prices they pay...

Top Russian court rules on torture complaint

The Constitutional Court of Russia has shut down a complaint by civil liberties activists, who have accused detention center officials of interfering with their...

Is a genocide taking place in Europe?

Against the backdrop of the current war scare over Ukraine, a recent statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin has attracted attention. In it he...

$2m fuel theft from US base explained with ‘Romanian culture’

A thieving scheme that resulted in $2 million in fuel stolen from a US base in Romania might have been facilitated by the “negligence”...

Deadly Colombian airport bombings branded terrorist attack

The twin blasts that rocked an airport in the Colombian city of Cucuta on Tuesday, killing two police officers, was a terrorist attack, the...

Iconic Vegas mega-resort sold for cool $1 billion

MGM Resorts International said on Monday it will sell the operations of the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas to Hard Rock International...

England lifting all countries from Covid ‘red list’

The British government is removing all the countries named on England’s pandemic travel red list, Secretary for Transport Grant Shapps has announced. ...

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