Buckwheat panic in Russia

The latest Russian food crisis wasn’t brought on by sanctions. But in this political climate, even a bad weather report is enough to make locals race to stock up on a classic staple before it flies off supermarket shelves. For the past few weeks, Russians have been frantically buying up buckwheat following reports that bad […]

















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I got held up at gunpoint in Sierra Leone, and it was adorable

SIERRA LEONE — They came out of nowhere, guns raised, their fingers on the trigger. Before I could react, they were peering into my car window. Well, they were trying to. They were each about 3 feet tall. When you're 4 years old and Ebola has shut down all of your country's schools and community […]

















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Reindeer Cop, Siberia’s answer to crime

The antlered animals of Santa’s sleigh-pulling team may soon become Russia’s latest elite crime-fighting force. Russian officials are considering outfitting local police units in the country’s Far North with reindeer in an effort to apprehend criminals in the frozen tundra, according to a report in Russia’s Izvestia newspaper. The venture appears to have sprung from […]

















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Watch: Israel demolishes Palestinian home as punishment

A day after two Palestinian men killed five Israelis at an Orthodox synagogue in Jerusalem, Israeli authorities made reprisals, demolishing the home of a Palestinian involved in an earlier attack at a tram stop. On Wednesday morning, a controlled explosion ripped through a fourth-floor apartment in a residential block in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of […]

















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Deadly showdown at Indian guru’s compound reveals dubious side of the country’s ‘godmen’

Large swathes of a town in northern India lay in virtual lock-down Wednesday after clashes between police and supporters of a spiritual leader named Sant Rampal left six people dead and more than 200 injured, including journalists, according to local police. Rampal and his supporters had been engaged in a stand-off with police for days […]

















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