No joke. April Fools’ Day has been banned in China.

No joke. April Fools' Day has been banned in China. The ancient tradition of hoaxing and playing practical jokes on the first day of April has fallen victim to China’s crackdown. Like democracy and free speech, it is a Western concept that simply isn’t welcome here. “’April Fools' Day’ is not consistent with our cultural […]











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Turkey’s Erdogan came to Washington, and things got a bit crazy

Visiting Washington this week to attend the Nuclear Security Summit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived at the Brookings Institution Thursday morning to deliver a highly anticipated speech. His country sits at the intersection of some of the thorniest security challenges facing the world: from the ravages of the Syrian war next door to the terrorist violence of the Islamic State […]











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Why are Nairobi’s lions suddenly being killed?

For the second time in two days, a male lion was killed outside Nairobi National Park. This one, 2-year-old Lemek, was found with a spear through his body. The previous day, a 13-year-old named Mohawk was shot by wildlife rangers who said he posed a threat to human life. They did not have tranquilizers. It had […]











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The EgyptAir hijacker isn’t as funny as the Internet makes him sound

The brief hijacking on Tuesday of an EgyptAir flight that took off from the Egyptian port city of Alexandria and was diverted to Cyprus ended, thankfully, with no casualties and minimal fuss. The suspected culprit, 59-year-old Seif Eldin Mustafa, was deemed psychologically "unstable" by investigators. His donning of a fake suicide belt, used to commandeer the plane, […]











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Muslims in veils are like ‘American negroes’ who supported slavery, French minister says

A French minister for women's rights is under fire for what critics describe as a doubly offensive comparison of Muslim women who wear head coverings to American slaves who she said supported their own subjugation. In a Wednesday interview on the TV channel BFM, Laurence Rossignol criticized clothing companies such as H&M, Uniqlo and Dolce & Gabbana for offering products catered to Muslim women who partially […]











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What it’s like to be an American held in North Korea

What kind of conditions is Otto Warmbier being held in? We try to find some answers.











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