Italy’s top cultural official scheduled an emergency for Tuesday morning after heavy rains led to the collapse of a section…
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Japan’s Shinzo Abe honors war criminals, enrages friends
Japanese are rightfully proud of the economic achievements made in the last half century despite the country’s lack of natural…
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Kobani is a small town in northern Syria on the Syrian-Turkish Border. Most of its inhabitants are Kurdish, but recently,…
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Scotland independence vote: Scots show world how to settle nationhood questions
As I write this here in Edinburgh at on Friday morning, the first thing to note is that the referendum…
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CDC director on Ebola crisis: Why I am going to Africa
CDC disease detective Kelsey Mirkovic, just back from West Africa, tells of working to gain the confidence of village leaders…
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Gaza rockets aimed at Israel: What would you do with just 15 seconds?
Imagine that wherever you live in the United States you have only 15 seconds to reach a secure place to…
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It is about time that pundits stop describing President Obama’s foreign policy as weak. There is a straight line between…
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Kidnapped Nigerian girls: We must act fast against Boko Haram terrorists
Young girls who hope to improve their lives through education sometimes risk attracting the evil eye of radical Muslim terrorists.…
Read MoreAn Egyptian Jew’s message to threatened Middle East Christians
If you walk down bustling Adly Street in downtown Cairo, it is easy to miss the large gray building. But…
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Will Putin’s bad-boy routine help Obama, Kerry see the light?
If there’s one good thing to come out of the Crimea crisis so far – if that’s possible – it’s…
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