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Czech Parliament Approves 2026 Budget with €12.5 Billion Deficit Economy

Czech Parliament Approves 2026 Budget with €12.5 Billion Deficit

The Chamber of Deputies approved the state budget for 2026 with a deficit of 310 billion Czech crowns (€12.5 billion) on March 11th — the first budget...

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How Political Asylum Works—and Who Qualifies Economy

How Political Asylum Works—and Who Qualifies

Asylum is a legal protection that allows people fleeing persecution to remain safely in another country. Here is how the process works, who qualifies,...

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What Is the Durand Line—and Why It Still Sparks Wars Economy

What Is the Durand Line—and Why It Still Sparks Wars

Drawn by a British colonial officer in 1893, the Durand Line divides Afghanistan and Pakistan along a 2,640-kilometer border that no Afghan government...

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Tusk: 'Polexit' a Real Threat to Poland Economy

Tusk: 'Polexit' a Real Threat to Poland

Prime Minister Donald Tusk has warned that Poland's exit from the European Union is becoming a "real threat," blaming the Law and Justice party (PiS),...

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Cuba: Ten Days of Protests Shake the Regime Economy

Cuba: Ten Days of Protests Shake the Regime

Cuba marks its tenth consecutive day of mass protests on March 16, 2026, with pot-banging demonstrations, barricades, and fires erupting amid blackout...

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Artists Protest Cuts, Rename Ministry of Culture 'Ministry of Bodybuilding' Culture

Artists Protest Cuts, Rename Ministry of Culture 'Ministry of Bodybuilding'

Three artists symbolically renamed Prague's Ministry of Culture as the 'Ministry of Bodybuilding,' sparking a wave of protests by the 'Art Survives' i...

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Oscars 2026: 'One Battle' Wins Big, Women Make History Culture

Oscars 2026: 'One Battle' Wins Big, Women Make History

Paul Thomas Anderson's 'One Battle After Another' swept the 98th Academy Awards with six Oscars including Best Picture, while cinematographer Autumn D...

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How FCC Broadcast Licenses Work—and What Can Revoke Them Technology

How FCC Broadcast Licenses Work—and What Can Revoke Them

Every radio and TV station in the United States operates under a federal license tied to the public interest. Here is how those licenses are granted,...

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Orbán Blocks EU's Ukraine Aid Ahead of Brussels Summit Economy

Orbán Blocks EU's Ukraine Aid Ahead of Brussels Summit

Hungary is withholding the EU's €90 billion aid package for Ukraine and the 20th sanctions package, citing the Druzhba oil pipeline dispute. The Bruss...

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Kast Takes Office in Chile: Country's Biggest Shift to the Right Since 1990 Culture

Kast Takes Office in Chile: Country's Biggest Shift to the Right Since 1990

José Antonio Kast was inaugurated as President of Chile on March 11, 2026, in Valparaíso, with Javier Milei and King Felipe VI among the guests, conso...

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Cyberattack on NCBJ: Traces Lead to Iran Science

Cyberattack on NCBJ: Traces Lead to Iran

Hackers attacked the National Centre for Nuclear Research in Świerk, Poland, but Polish security systems repelled the attack. Minister Gawkowski point...

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Babiš Cuts Defense Spending: Czech Republic Falls Below 2% of GDP, NATO Pressures Economy

Babiš Cuts Defense Spending: Czech Republic Falls Below 2% of GDP, NATO Pressures

The Czech Parliament has approved the 2026 budget, allocating only 1.7% of GDP to defense – well below NATO's commitment threshold. President Pavel wa...

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