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Police armed with slingshots Curiosities

Police armed with slingshots

Highly unusual protective equipment has been issued to police officers in the Mexican city of Tijuana. Law enforcers have been given slingshots and ammunition in the form of balls, and now they are…

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Time to Change Names Everyday life

Time to Change Names

The problem of national self-identification turned out to be one of the most difficult for citizens of the unrecognized Republic of China on Taiwan, especially against the backdrop of a reassessment…

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Where to Apply with a Domestic Diploma Education

Where to Apply with a Domestic Diploma

Today it is believed that an English-language education is almost the only one capable of providing a university graduate with a decent career. So the whole world rushes to universities in Britain…

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Everyday life

UK Residents Don't Consider Themselves British

According to recent research, UK citizens feel less British than a decade ago, and residents of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland increasingly associate their nationality with their homeland…

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Real estate

Germans buy up real estate in the US

The American National Association of Realtors compiled a portrait of a typical home buyer, analyzing transactions from 1995 to 2005. It turned out that foreigners bought $41 billion worth of American…

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Wild Vikings and Tons of Candy Rain Tourism

Wild Vikings and Tons of Candy Rain

In February, Europe briefly loses its mind: a noisy wave of carnivals sweeps through large and small cities. It is known that Europeans hold carnivals not so much for tourists as for themselves…

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Main news of the issue (abroad No. 367) News

Main news of the issue (abroad No. 367)

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Real estate

Housing in the Homeland of Ferenc Liszt

A person who has at least once opened a school history textbook knows that Hungary was once part of the Austro-Hungarian state, which means Austria is not far away. Moreover, any compatriot older…

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Neighbors Confused by Russian Rules News

Neighbors Confused by Russian Rules

It seems that the official Russian authorities, who have zealously set about bringing order to markets and labor migration in general, will have to answer questions not only from their own…

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Half the world fled Immigration

Half the world fled

The status of a refugee is defined by the UN Convention adopted in 1951. This document stipulates that a refugee may be considered a person who has left his homeland because of war and/or experiences…

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News

Compensation payments to Nazi victims completed

The German federal foundation 'Remembrance, Responsibility and Future' together with the Ukrainian national foundation 'Mutual Understanding and Reconciliation' is completing individual payments to…

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Flight to America Immigration

Flight to America

In 2006, the United States granted refugee status and issued permission to relocate to the United States to 13,000 citizens of post-Soviet states, mostly Meskhetian Turks living in Russia's Krasnodar…

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