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2024-02-22
President Vladimir Putin has presented North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with an Aurus Senat, a luxury passenger car that has been described as the "Russian equivalent of Rolls-Royce." Since a Putin-Kim summit in 2023, the two old Cold War allies have deepened military, political, economic, and cultural ties -- with Pyongyang believed to be supplying munitions to Russia for its conflict in Ukraine.
2024-01-05
Authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan pressed the creator of a riverside sculpture of a mother, father and single child to add two extra offspring under the Communist Party's campaign to encourage people to have more kids to boost flagging birth rates. Guo Xue was asked to give his work in Wuhan's Jiangtan Park, titled "A Better Future," a makeover, and added two extra children to reflect the government's current "three-child" policy, rather than the one-child policy of recent decades.