| Rush to war? How North Korea sanctions have not been exhausted Posted: 06 Sep 2017 01:51 PM PDT ![Rush to war? How North Korea sanctions have not been exhausted]( "Rush to war? How North Korea sanctions have not been exhausted") Recommended: Kim 101: How well do you know North Korea's leaders? "The reality is that Kim is increasingly opening up the country to private enterprise and building up the loyalties of the new elites by allowing them access to the cash and foreign products they need to live their comfortable lifestyles and to make more money," says Melanie Hart, director of China policy at the Center for American Progress in Washington. Already high tensions between North Korea and the United States and its allies in the region were sent skyward over the weekend as Pyongyang carried out its sixth and by far most powerful nuclear test Saturday.
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| In anti-establishment era, German youth opt for status quo: Angela Merkel Posted: 06 Sep 2017 01:34 PM PDT ![In anti-establishment era, German youth opt for status quo: Angela Merkel]( "In anti-establishment era, German youth opt for status quo: Angela Merkel") In France, the communist-backed "La France Insoumise." Across Europe, the anti-establishment parties noisily demanding radical political change are the ones attracting the youth vote. Until you get to Germany, at least. Recommended: How much do you know about Germany?
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| A Kenyan court lifts a lamp of integrity for Africa Posted: 06 Sep 2017 10:53 AM PDT ![A Kenyan court lifts a lamp of integrity for Africa]( "A Kenyan court lifts a lamp of integrity for Africa") When David Maraga was interviewed last year for the position of chief justice of Kenya's Supreme Court, he was asked by a panel if he had ever accepted a bribe in his judicial career. One success is Nigeria's first peaceful transfer of power from one party to another after a 2015 election.
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| In capitalist Russia, a socialist garden flourishes Posted: 06 Sep 2017 09:11 AM PDT ![In capitalist Russia, a socialist garden flourishes]( "In capitalist Russia, a socialist garden flourishes") Just behind the glitzy Vegas shopping mall on Moscow's outer ring highway lies a huge island of Soviet socialism, the Lenin Sovkhoz. This former state farm, with its broad fields growing berries, fruits, and vegetables literally amid the vast apartment blocs and rush hour traffic of outer Moscow, has maintained its collective roots and even prospered as everything around it has changed beyond recognition. Some deride the place and its members' proud embrace of Soviet ideals and symbols as a "museum." But Farm Director Pavel Grudinin says it's more complicated than that.
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