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For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...

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Stand-up comedy has existed in Ukraine for less than two decades and has only recently become a mainstream form of ...

The Brutalist,” a winner of three Academy awards, was shot almost entirely in Hungary. The central European country has ...

Sitting at 12,000 feet above sea level, Bolivia’s La Paz has the highest altitude of any administrative capital of any ...

On this day 12 years ago, Pope Francis became the first pope from Latin America. Since then, in all of his travels around the ...

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Israel has blocked the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, citing Hamas’ rejection of a new proposal to extend the ceasefire ...

For many of us, virtual reality experiences are few and far between. And the ones we encounter typically involve gaming. But ...

Over the weekend, residents of Brisbane, Australia, were bracing for the impact of Tropical Cyclone Alfred. The storm was ...

China broke its own record for the world’s fastest train, clocking in at 281 miles per hour. But in Japan, testing is ...