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World View: China-North Korea Tensions High After Nuclear Test

Contents: North Korea’s explosion was probably not a ‘hydrogen bomb’; South Korea resumes broadcasting propaganda via loudspeakers; North Korea’s nuclear test revives memories of the 2010 Cheonan attack; China faces limited influence and high frustration dealing with North Korea

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Why Germany Can’t Face the Truth About Migrant Sex Attacks

When the migrants began arriving in their thousands each day last summer, there were welcoming parties across the country. ‘We love refugees!’ proclaimed banners outside reception centres. Yet that warm hospitality is now being replaced by fear, as a society renowned for its good order begins to buckle under the strain — and to worry if it has made a mistake.

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State Department Timeline Has Bashar Assad Ruling Syria Until 2017

The Associated Press reports it has seen documents that show the State Department expects Syrian dictator Bashar Assad to remain in power until at least March 2017, which is “two months after President Barack Obama leaves office and more than five years after Obama first called for Assad to leave.”

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Venezuelan Economy Czar: ‘Inflation Does Not Exist in Real Life’

Venezuela’s new Vice President of Economics believes “inflation does not exist” and believes entrepreneurs are an “economic tumor” upon socialist governments. The hard-line socialist Luis Salas, a 39-year-old professor, is expected to exacerbate the nation’s already alarming finance woes.