The four-year-old tweet that came back to haunt Australia’s prime minister

The Speaker's resignation reflects a government that is in chaos. The Govt has lost its way, lost its majority and now lost its speaker. — Tony Abbott (@TonyAbbottMHR) November 24, 2011 Twitter is a powerful tool for politicians, allowing them to get their message across directly to their audience. Like any method of communication, however, it has […]











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How could Vladimir Putin’s spokesman afford a $620,000 watch?

MOSCOW -- It was the wedding of the summer. An Olympic gold medalist in ice dancing. A mustachioed aide to President Vladimir V. Putin. Pop stars and politicians gathered in Sochi, Russia's Olympic dream city on the sea. But as Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s personal spokesman, wrapped his arms around the bride, his right sleeve rode up his […]











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Iran’s hard-liners want a better nuclear deal, too

Right now, the United States is in the grip of a loud domestic conversation about the merits of a proposed nuclear deal with Iran reached last month. But it is not alone. In Iran, too, there is a parallel debate about the agreement Iran forged in Vienna with the governments of the United States and five other world […]











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A question in Norway: Is this mountain’s name racist?

If you were to visit the sparsely populated Norwegian archipelago Svalbard, you could climb a Negro Mountain and stroll in Negro Valley which is nearby. For decades, the names of these locations were given little attention due to their remoteness. Recently, however, some Norwegians have begun to ask: Is "Negro Mountain" racist? John Christian Nygaard, a Norwegian journalist […]











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Say goodbye to the weirdest border dispute in the world

Just after midnight Saturday, one of the most perplexing border disputes in the world officially ended. India and Bangladesh began the exchange of over 160 enclaves – small areas of sovereignty completely surrounded on all sides by another country – and in so doing ended a dispute that has lasted almost 70 years. This act will have a major […]











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