Wearing an oversized bucket hat, silver chains and a black Miu Miu shirt, 82-year-old Park Jeom-sun gesticulates, her voice rising and falling with staccato lines about growing chili peppers, cucumbers and eggplants.
South Korean woman sues government and adoption agency after her kidnapped daughter was sent abroad
A 70-year-old South Korean woman sued her government, an adoption agency, and an orphanage Monday over the adoption of her daughter, who was sent to the United States in 1976, months after she was kidnapped at age 4.
CIA makes it easier for potential informants to share tips
The CIA wants to make it easier — and safer — for people in Iran, China and North Korea to share information with America’s premier spy agency.
U.S. bans new types of goods from China over allegations of forced labor
The Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday Oct. 2 that it would ban the import of goods from a Chinese steel manufacturer and a Chinese maker of artificial sweetener, accusing both of being involved in the use of from China’s far-west region of Xinjiang.
In global game of influence, China turns to a cheap and effective tool: fake news
When veteran U.S. diplomat Kurt Campbell traveled to the Solomon Islands to counter Beijing’s influence in the South Pacific country, he quickly saw just how far China would go to spread its message.
Thailand legalizes same-sex marriage, allows couples to wed starting in January
Thailand’s landmark marriage equality bill was officially written into law on Sept. 24, allowing same-sex couples to legally wed.
Japanese court acquits the longest-serving death row inmate of a 1966 quadruple murder
A Japanese court found an 88-year-old former boxer not guilty on Thursday, Sept. 26 after a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder, reversing a decision that made him the world’s longest-serving death row inmate.
Who is Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Sri Lanka’s new Marxist president?
Marxist politician Anura Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election over the weekend, dealing a blow to a political old guard that has been widely blamed for the unprecedented economic crisis that hit the South Asian island nation two years ago.
Thailand’s adorable pygmy hippo Moo Deng has the kind of face that launches a thousand memes
Only a month after Thailand’s adorable baby hippo Moo Deng was unveiled on Facebook, her fame became unstoppable.
Huge python grabs Thai woman in her kitchen, squeezes her two hours before she can be freed
BANGKOK (AP) — A 64-year-old woman was preparing to do her evening dishes at her home outside Bangkok when she felt a sharp pain in her thigh and looked down to see a huge python taking hold of her.
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