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China to drop Tibetan as core subject in university entrance exam
BEIJING (Realist English). China will remove the Tibetan language as a core subject in the national college entrance exam (gaokao)...
Read moreYouth Jubilee draws Catholics from 146 countries for Holy Year celebration in Rome
ROME (Realist English). Hundreds of thousands of young Catholics filled the streets and piazzas of Rome this weekend for the...
Read moreJob anxiety drives Chinese students to choose practical majors over elite universities
HUNAN (Realist English). After falling short on China’s notoriously difficult national college entrance exam in June, Lu Jie secured a...
Read moreChina shuts over 40,000 kindergartens as birth rates collapse
BEIJING (Realist English). China has closed more than 40,000 kindergartens over the past four years as a steep drop in...
Read moreNvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he’d study physical sciences if he were graduating in 2025
BEIJING (Realist English). If Jensen Huang were graduating today, the Nvidia CEO says he would pivot toward the physical sciences...
Read moreEgypt’s endangered tongues: Coptic, Nubian, and Berber communities fight to preserve their languages
CAIRO (Realist English). Far from the political center of Cairo, minority communities across Egypt are engaged in a quiet struggle...
Read more‘Not just ballots’: Candidates in Uganda turn to traditional healers amid rising political tension
MBALE (Realist English). When Wilson Watira, a parliamentary candidate in eastern Uganda, extended his hand to a rival at a...
Read moreGen X poised for major inheritance boom amid record baby boomer wealth transfers
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Members of Generation X — those currently aged 45 to 60 — are expected to benefit from...
Read morePope Leo XIV revives Castel Gandolfo retreat, signaling shift in Vatican style
CASTEL GANDOLFO (Realist English). After a 12-year hiatus, Pope Leo XIV will restore the centuries-old tradition of papal summer retreats...
Read moreAI-powered heartbreak: How ChatGPT became the ghostwriter of modern break-ups
LONDON (Realist English). Earlier this week, a London commuter witnessed a quietly surreal scene: a young man, phone in hand,...
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Sheaito Moussallam: Iran is the main obstacle to Greater Israel
BEIRUT (Realist English). The Middle East today is an echo of exploding bombs, diplomatic dead ends, and dozens of contradictory interpretations...
‘Capitalism is facing a crisis of legitimacy’: Larry Fink on inequality, AI and the evolution of markets
NEW YORK (Realist English). Larry Fink, founder and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest investment company with $14 trillion in assets...
Maria Nikiforova: Young people of the liberated territories are waiting for peace and justice
MOSCOW (Realist English). Maria Nikiforova, an expert on youth policy at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian...
155 billionaires vs. 150 million people: Zyuganov on the social catastrophe in Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov presented the pre-election program "Victory...
UAE boosts production bypassing OPEC, but oil prices rise
MOSCOW (Realist English). Leading researcher at IMEMO RAS, Candidate of Historical Sciences Stanislav Ivanov has analysed for Realist English the possible consequences of...
Kurdish Genocide: From the Ottoman Empire to Erdoğan — a Chronicle of a Century of Terror
ISTANBUL (Realist English). Crimes against the Kurdish people have not been isolated episodes but have been carried out by successive Turkish...
Will Trump and Xi Agree on a New World Order?
BEIJING (Realist English). Relations between the United States and China in May 2026 can best be described as an “armed...
Pentagon withdraws troops from Germany: minus 5,000 soldiers in Europe and cancellation of a missile battalion
BERLIN (Realist English). On 2 May, the Pentagon officially announced the withdrawal of 5,000 US troops from Germany over the next...
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