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The United Nations is celebrating its 70 anniversary world government day on October 24, 2015. Over 200 landmarks around the world will be lit up in U.N. blue.

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that 10 Islamic State positions in Syria had been attacked in the past 24 hours, including militant training camps in Raqqa and Idlib provinces. Russian strikes have broken “the management and logistics of the terrorist organization” and caused “significant damage to the infrastructure used for preparation of terrorist attacks,” the ministry said on its website. Laser-guided and concrete-piercing ordnance had been used, it said.

Finland last week doubled its estimate for the number of asylum seekers expected this year to up to 30,000, compared with just 3,600 last year.

President to reaffirm peace pledge while marking WWII victory Procession of 12,000 troops demonstrates Xi's supreme power

The German government is clear in that it seeks a nationwide cultivation ban

China is ramping up publicity for its upcoming massive military parade commemorating the end of World War II, but officials still aren't saying what other countries are taking part.

Stuart and Sam discuss why all lives matter and if people really care about life they would be protesting the illegal foreign wars of aggression and much more...

Complaining of corruption and a weak economy, hundreds of thousands of Brazilians went out onto the streets Sunday to call for the ouster of President Dilma Rousseff. The demonstrations in over 100 cities and towns were the largest in months but probably fell short of the estimated 1.7 million participants in the largest protests to date earlier this year.

When China sneezes, the world catches a cold. Alternatively, when China devalues, the rest of the (exporting) world scrambles to not be the last (exporting) nation standing, and to do so next, before everyone else does. Case in point, at least three major emerging market nations announced they are bracing for currency war.

Five months have passed since Saudi Arabia declared war on Yemen, and for all its might, political resolve and military arsenal, the kingdom has yet to bring the poorest nation on the Arabian Peninsula to heel.