In the mid-17th century, the weather in China got colder. The frequency of droughts and floods increased while some regions were wiped out by tragic famines. And the once-unstoppable Ming dynasty began to lose power.
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Wednesday’s front page of Icelandic-language daily Fréttablaðið shows Iceland’s embattled Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson being asked questions by journalists in Reykjavik’s Althing, the national parliament, as the future of the ruling coalition is uncertain in the wake of the Panama Papers scandal. Gunnlaugsson had apparently resigned yesterday amid the uproar of the Panama Papers […]
RIA NOVOSTI (Russia), REUTERS, RUSSIA TODAY, AFP, BBC Worldcrunch ST. PETERSBURG — The leaders of the world’s 20 most powerful economies arrived Thursday in Russia for the annual G20 summit. The two-day meeting was initially supposed to focus on the economic slowdown in the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) as well […]
KOMMERSANT (Russia) Worldcrunch MOSCOW – The three things that Russians find the most “immoral” are child abandonment, suicide and homosexuality, reports Kommersant. In a survey by the Levada Center, a non-governmental sociological research center, a majority of Russians polled also found sexual relationships between non-married individuals to be immoral. That is more than double the […]