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Before the recent MERS scare made a dent, Seoul had become a popular destination for foreign students wishing to spend a semester or two on a university …

The rising crescendo of bickering and acrimony within Europe might seem to outsiders to be the inevitable result of the bitter endgame playing out between …

Pope Francis has proclaimed climate change a fact, stressing our moral duty to correct it. The pontiff titled his encyclical “Laudato Si,” or “Be …

Six months after the Jan. 7 attack on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, Paris remains a city on guard. Black-uniformed military police of the Republican …

A series of doping scandals is again exposing the dark side of professional sports in the country. This should raise alarm bells because pro sports are getting …

The ugly infighting that has been unfolding in the ruling camp ― namely the Blue House and the Saenuri Party ― is sickening the nation, which is already …

When Dylann Roof was arraigned in Charleston, South Carolina, on murder charges, members of his victims’ families stated that they forgave him. Their words …

It was a good week for President Barack Obama. His Trans-Pacific Partnership trade effort hurdled past a congressional road block put up by his own party. The …

WASHINGTON — We learned in school about modern history‘s cruelest man-made refugee crises — the Russian pogroms of the 1880s, World War I and …

Public contrition has long been an art in Japan, and this past month has offered a great opportunity to study the form. June has seen a sudden rash of …