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Given the recent fight over whether U.S. refugee-detention centers are in fact concentration camps, the Trump administration might want to borrow a page from the Chinese and simply call them vocational skills education training centers. That way, no one would…

Sesame and poppy seeds, dried onion and garlic, coarse salt. In a word: Everything. chrislearyphoto / Shutterstock The everything bagel is the king of bagels. On this there should be no argument. In the same way that it combines all of the key bagel toppings…

1.Ive been interested in prostitution ever since a deathbed revelation in 1998. As my beloved maternal grandmother lay dying, my mother, an only child, cried her eyes out. She said to me: You have no idea how much she has suffered: the famine, the Nanjing Mas…

United States President Donald Trump began the week before last on a golf course in Virginia. He was unhappy. On Twitter, he complained about London Mayor Sadiq Khan. The two men have a deep, mutual dislike for one another. "Khan is a disaster," Trump wrote, …

Iran Press TV Mon Jun 24, 2019 05:57AM Australia is reportedly working on a secret plan to construct a new deep-water port to accommodate US Marine deployments on its northern coast, a move that is aimed to counter China's growing presence in the region. C…

The deal brings China's Belt and Road Initiative closer to developer of PV plants, including a 165.5MW project in Egypt (Credit: ACWA Power) China has made a strategic play for Middle Eastern renewables, securing a large minority stake in one of the region’s…

After maintaining an ambiguous stance for some time, the Chinese foreign ministry finally conceded that it recently hosted Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Afghanistan Talibans chief negotiator, who is involved in peace negotiations with the United States over…

Russias Return to South Asia was supposed to see it build the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline as a means of promoting peaceful multipolar regional integration, but the US is about to jeopardize this plan after it was disclosed just days before Pompeos …

FAISALABAD, Pakistan At first, in her desperate calls home to her mother in Pakistan, Natasha Masih couldnt bring herself to say what they were doing to her. All the 19-year-old would say was that her new husband a Chinese man her family sold her off to in m…

Image via ShutterstockChoosing a travel destination isn’t easy. If many people were given a choice, they would trot all over the world in a heartbeat. Airbnb literally pulls out all the stops with its new pocket-friendly bundle—and you don’t even have to plan…