In April 1929, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) met in Lausanne, Switzerland, to grant the hosting rights for the 1932 Winter Olympic Games. The United States was the frontrunner, and ...
Eufemia Cullamat was inspired to join the Philippine Congress after three people were killed in 2015 while protesting mining in her hometown of Lianga, on the southern Philippine island of ...
Reason would dictate that Germany’s tenacious automakers—the leaders in the European market—would vehemently demand an import charge on China’s subsidized and cut-price electric vehicles (EVs). Observers fear sleek and thrifty ...
The presidential palace is supposed to resemble a garuda—a giant mythical eagle—when finished. For now, however, the form remains vague, the half-finished shell of the building still encased by cranes ...
It’s swim — or sink — at one Maine beach dealing with a sudden rash of quicksand scares. Jamie Acord was strolling along the water in Popham Beach State Park ...
The box office is down 42 percent over the last pre-pandemic year of 2019, Hollywood just suffered the worst Memorial Day weekend in over a quarter-century, and now a bunch ...
Officially, the shadow fleet doesn’t exist. These rickety, uninsured vessels, running oil from Russia to China, India, and others, live off-book as they cruise the world’s oceans to dodge sanctions. ...
Dozens of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s former colleagues at an environmental advocacy group have demanded he drop out of the 2024 race to “honor our planet” — ...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Taiwan’s biggest earthquake in 25 years, NATO commitments for Ukraine aid, and an opposition crackdown in Thailand. Welcome back to World ...
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