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Donald Trump seem to have changed his script yet again Tuesday. He appeared to shift his stance on at least two major issues. They are about torture and you guessed right.. climate. Trump’s ironclad belief that the USA must withdraw from the international climate change accord suddenly wasn’t so ironclad,…

An earthquake with a 6.9-magnitude struck off Japan’s Honshu island triggering baby tsunami waves. It brought back traumatic memories of the 2011 Fukushima disaster. The quake struck Fukushima at about 6 am triggering initial warnings of nearly 10 foot high waves. Fortunately, the waves that hit the coast were much…

Turkey’s ruling party has withdrawn the proposed rape bill. This basically allows men accused of sexual abuse to avoid sentence. This doesn’t sound fair at all and obviously a public uproar has merged. Even the opposition parties and civil society groups are calling for it to be cancelled immediately. I…

Hundreds of copies of ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’ authored by Anne Frank are said to have been destroyed in public libraries in Tokyo, Japan’s capital. Pages have been ripped off at least 265 books in 31 municipal libraries, officials say. While a US Jewish rights group has requested…