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• A departing president’s lesson for peace
• Russia's Asian and European halves meet and mix in remote Buryatia
• Wildfires force California to reckon with a not-so-new normal
• Millennials are driving a re-sale clothing boom

A departing president’s lesson for peace Posted: 03 Aug 2018 01:42 PM PDT When he steps down as Colombia's president on Tuesday, Juan Manuel Santos will take with him a medal for the Nobel Peace Prize, given to him for an agreement in 2016 that ended a half-century of war with a leftist guerrilla army. In addition, his historic achievement will have the strong endorsement of the United Nations Security Council. An estimated 265,000 people were killed during Colombia's civil war.

Russia's Asian and European halves meet and mix in remote Buryatia Posted: 03 Aug 2018 01:12 PM PDT On a June evening, everyone in a downtown restaurant of this river valley city is cheering wildly for Russia's World Cup soccer team. Ulan Ude is very much part of Russia. The city and the Montana-sized republic of which it is the capital, Buryatia, is unmistakably Asian.

Wildfires force California to reckon with a not-so-new normal Posted: 03 Aug 2018 12:38 PM PDT The wildfire destruction over a wide swath of California moved Gov. Jerry Brown to offer a sobering prognosis for the state's future. "This is the new normal," he said, "and this could be something that happens every year or every few years."

Millennials are driving a re-sale clothing boom Posted: 03 Aug 2018 05:00 AM PDT Instead of waiting for clearance sales on the season's latest styles, millions of people are spending their dollars in the resale market. On these apps, customers talk directly with prior owners of an item to assure them of the quality of the clothing.

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