
The Latest on an international tribunal's ruling on the case filed by the Philippines against China's claims in the South China Sea (all times local): 10 a.m. A day after an international tribunal said ...
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How do you ruin a great speech? President Obama gave us a master class in doing just that Tuesday at the memorial service to the five Dallas police officers gunned down last week. For 15 minutes, the president’s speech was — and this is a word I use advisedly — magnificent. It was elevated and powerful and profoundly moving. And it was unifying, genuinely unifying, in the way the president made clear our commonalities with the police officers whose lives were ended — and our differences, in the sense that they engaged in personally perilous work dedicated to making the rest of us safe that most of us would never dream of attempting. Most important, he defended the United States against the assertion
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Ahoy there, Jupiter!NASA has released the first image taken by the Juno spacecraft while in orbit of the solar system’s largest planet. The color photograph, above, showed Jupiter and its famous Great Red Spot alongside three of the planet’s four largest moons: Io, Europa and Ganymede.The image was taken on July 10 some 2.7 million miles...
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China blamed the Philippines for stirring up trouble and issued a policy paper Wednesday calling the islands in the South China Sea its "inherent territory," a day after an international tribunal said China had no legal basis for its expansive claims
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Who was president Yoweri Museveni talking to? Why did he pull over on the side of a rural road to take a call? And why did he have to be stationary to talk on a mobile phone? These were just some of the questions trending in Uganda on Tuesday (July 12) when the country’s leader…
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Yeonmi Park, 22, is in the rare position of being able to contrast Western societies with the secretive, authoritarian state of North Korea. Park, who grew up in the North Korean city of Hyesan, told Business Insider that her childhood was dominated by hunger pangs — especially at the age of nine when her father was imprisoned for allegedly trading goods on the black market. In 2007, at the age of 13, Park fled with her mother to China, travelling through mountains and across a frozen river. At the Chinese border, the men they bribed with money turned out to be gangsters. The men, who ran prostitution rings, trafficked them around northern China, according to The Guardian. Eventually the mother
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The largest country in the world by area, Russia has plenty of room to hide things. Naturally, that includes nuclear missiles. Unlike American missiles, which are stationed in concrete silos, Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) are deployed on large truck-like vehicles designed to prowl the country's road networks before unleashing Armageddon. Russia Today has a story on a Russian strategic missile exercise that involves a massive convoy traveling from European-Russian border all the way to the Mongolian border. Russian mobile ICBMs have established, permanent bases but leave in groups on month-long patrols. This particular 400-vehicle convoy includes Topol, Topol-M, and Yars
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There's a fine line between historic territorial claims and naked colonialism.
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