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Swatch 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...
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...
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Putin and Xi reaffirm strategic partnership in New Year video talks
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin held a video conference with Chinese President Xi Jinping on February 4, marking...
Pompeo hints at US involvement in unrest and attacks in Iran
TEL AVIV (Realist English). Former US secretary of state and ex-CIA director Mike Pompeo has made a rare public statement...
Khamenei warns of regional war amid US military build-up in the Gulf
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei warned on Sunday that any US attack on the Islamic Republic would...
Trump warns Iran as US carrier group moves closer, raising fears of imminent military clash
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The risk of open conflict between the United States and Iran intensified after US President Donald Trump...
Star Wars without fiction: how space became the next battlefield
MOSCOW (Realist English). “Star Wars” stopped being science fiction long ago. Unfortunately, over ten thousand years of civilisation, humanity has...
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...
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