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China tightens rules on medical content across social media
BEIJING (Realist English). Chinese regulators have introduced sweeping new rules aimed at curbing the rapid growth of unverified medical science...
Read moreSwatch apologises for culturally offensive ad after backlash in China
ZURICH (Realist English). Swiss watchmaker Swatch has apologised for a promotional image featuring a model making a “slant eye” gesture,...
Read moreNew research reveals Pompeii was resettled after AD 79 eruption
NAPLES (Realist English). The ancient Roman city of Pompeii, long seen as a perfectly preserved relic of the catastrophic AD...
Read moreLabubu and the psychology of collecting: From joy to compulsion
LONDON (Realist English). There’s a particular pull to Labubu dolls — the sly grin, the soft fuzz, the crinkle of...
Read moreChina 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...
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Russia boosts gas exports to China as Europe’s loss weighs on revenues
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russia is expected to increase its pipeline exports of natural gas to China by around 25% this...
Lula warns US action against Venezuela would trigger humanitarian disaster
FOZ DO IGUAÇU (Realist English). Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has warned that any armed intervention in Venezuela...
Putin says Russia has no plans for new military operations, blames West for tensions
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Moscow is not planning any new special military operations,...
Maduro rejects Trump’s claims over Venezuelan oil and land, accuses US of colonial ambitions
CARACAS (Realist English). Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has said recent remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump about “reclaiming” Venezuelan land...
Dadivank: The Legacy of Christ’s Apostles in Artsakh
YEREVAN (Realist English). In Artsakh, before the ethnic cleansing and forced deportation – simply put, genocide – carried out by...
An unusual phenomenon at the Church of the Holy Savior in Shushi
YEREVAN (Realist English). In the distant year 1979, as a third-year university student, I used to visit the Church of...
War with Iran seen as inevitable, Armenia warned of looming regional storm
YEREVAN (Realist English). The war with Iran is drawing ever closer. And once again, this pulls Armenia into a zone...
Putin, Trump and Zelensky: is a trilateral meeting necessary?
MOSCOW (Realist English). Although more than a week has passed since the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S....
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