North Korea response to ‘plot-breeding’ U.N. report gets even weirder

The official statements coming out of North Korea’s incomparable, state-run Korean Central News Agency are often so over-the-top and use such florid turns of phrase that they sometimes seem like they’re straight out of The Onion. In many cases, they would be laughable if they weren’t about such serious issues – like the totalitarian repression […]

















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Heavy rains flood out the ruins of Gaza

GAZA CITY -- It has been raining hard for a week in the coastal enclave -- a blessing for farmers and parched aquifers, but a curse for those who lost their homes in the 50-day war between Israel and Hamas. With 100,000 housing units partially damaged or destroyed, according to the United Nations, thousands of […]

















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In North Korea, another Kim rises to the top

Buried at the bottom of an official North Korean report published Thursday about Kim Jong Un’s visit to an animation studio, after the praise for the artists and the insight that cartoons are popular worldwide, was a rare kernel of real information. Accompanying North Korea’s “supreme leader” to the studio were a bunch of apparatchiks […]

















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‘Tomorrow my life will change, and all of this will be a bad memory’

CALAIS, France – Arriving in this French port city aboard a sleek Eurostar train from London, I worried that I might have trouble finding the migrants whose presence was the reason for my visit. They are in Calais, after all, to do something illicit: to sneak into Britain, land of their dreams. Perhaps they would […]

















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A small village in Nepal is set to make the largest animal sacrifice in the world

More than 1 million people have descended upon a remote temple in southern Nepal in recent days, where thousands of animals are set to slaughtered starting Friday as part of a ritual sacrifice to honor the Hindu goddess Gadhimai held every five years. In 2009, the last time the festival was held, sword-wielding men killed […]

















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Cheesy song praising love of China’s first couple goes viral, is mocked

BEIJING – A cheesy musical tribute to Chinese President Xi Jinping and the “legendary” love he shares with his wife is reported to have gone viral online, but has been widely mocked by Netizens as sycophantic and cringeworthy. The song, whose title roughly translates as “Uncle Xi loves Mother Peng,” is the latest manifestation of […]

















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INTERVIEW: The gay Latvian foreign minister whose coming out shocked Eastern Europe

Earlier this month, Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics announced that he was gay, breaking a major barrier in eastern Europe’s socially conservative political scene, where openly gay public figures of any sort are extremely rare. The announcement provoked strong reaction in Latvia and its neighbors. Western European leaders congratulated Rinkevics on his courage. Some of […]

















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In interviews, Finland’s leaders see peril in standoff between Russia and the West

Washington Post London Bureau Chief Griff Witte sat down for separate interviews with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö and Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja in Helsinki. The following are excerpts from those interviews. President Sauli Niinistö The Washington Post: We've seen in the past few months various instances of what seems to be provocative behavior by […]

















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What Afghanistan must do to get billions more in aid

In less than two weeks, Afghanistan’s new president, Ashraf Ghani, will head to London to meet with international donors. At the conference, scheduled for Dec. 4, he will seek billions of dollars to develop Afghanistan in a new era, as U.S. and international combat troops are preparing to withdraw by year's end. Afghanistan is facing […]

















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