Georgian parliamentary speaker Shalva Papuashvili said in a Facebook post on Thursday that he had signed into law a “family values” bill curbing LGBT rights, just weeks before a high-stakes parliamentary election. Lawmakers from the…
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A Singapore court charged a property billionaire on Friday with obstructing justice and abetting offenses by a disgraced ex-transport minister jailed a day earlier in the city-state’s high-profile government graft case. Ong Beng Seng, the 78-year-old owner of Hotel…
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Massacre in Burkina Faso left 600 dead, double previous estimates, according to French security assessment
Editor’s note: This story contains a graphic image and descriptions of violence. Up to 600 people were shot dead in a matter of hours by al Qaeda-linked militants in an August attack on a town…
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A Cambodian maid was arrested and deported by Malaysia for criticizing Cambodian leaders on social media
A Cambodian woman who worked as a maid in Malaysia has been deported to her homeland for comments she posted on social media criticizing Cambodian government leaders, in the latest example of a Southeast Asian…
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North Korea’s Kim Jong Un threatens to destroy the South with nuclear weapons if provoked
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened to use nuclear weapons to destroy South Korea if attacked, state media reported Friday, after South Korea’s president warned that if the North used nuclear weapons it would…
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Politics
MORNING GLORY: The VP debate is an example of Kamala Harris’s horrible judgment when it comes to picking staff
The debate between the candidates for vice president — GOP nominee Ohio Senator JD Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz — was dominated by Vance, and all but a handful of hardened partisan pundits agree…
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A federal judge on Wednesday unsealed a key filing from special counsel Jack Smith’s updated election interference case against former President Donald Trump. U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia Tanya Chutkan unsealed Smith’s…
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In his speech before the United Nations General Assembly last week, President Biden proposed building a ‘more effective and more inclusive U.N.’ by ‘bringing in new voices and new perspectives.’ What he should have said…
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Iran has finished its largest-ever barrage of missiles fired at Israel, but warns that a retaliatory strike could warrant further ballistic response. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said during the Asia Cooperation Dialogue summit this week…
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8 House Dems demand to know how social platforms are preparing to combat ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’
Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff issued a letter to major social media executives this week demanding they reveal how they will combat ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ in the 2024 election. The letter, co-signed by seven other members…