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For young newcomers, the first step to becoming American is learning English.

Are cross-cultural marriages the key to integrating a region?

A troupe of popular young comics avoids mixing humor and politics in Rwanda.

Meet the woman in Moscow caring for the U.S. canines of state.

A derelict beer factory stirs social divides in Beirut.

The Czech Embassy celebrates one of its own.

We're revamping The Cable with a more global spin.

The president of the Philippines says God told him not to use swear words again.

When travelers don't get their visas on time, they get angry. And then they write Yelp reviews.

The Chechen government is cracking down on wedding celebrations.

His nephew, a government minister, says the award was rescinded after a meeting with the Dalai Lama.

Thai mourners are gathering to say goodbye to their king. But they're also leaving behind piles of trash.

Gambia is the latest country to leave the ICC>

U.N. rights rapporteur Philip Alston says the refusal to accept legal responsibility for cholera epidemic is a "disgrace" for the U.N.

Ukrainian hackers have allegedly stolen the emails of Vladislav Surkov.

Despite a dramatic decrease in sea crossings, migrants who do try are now much more likely to die.

As an overwhelming majority opposes amending the constitution so he can seek a third term.

It will take long-term solutions after the camp is shut down to rehouse many of the thousands of people who lived there.

Sometimes it takes going on live TV to apologize for your darkest of moments.

This Uzbek mayor is threatening to publish names of couples who seek divorce.

Now that Burundi and South Africa have moved to leave the ICC, more African countries are expected to follow.

Mexican clowns complain they are being mistreated because impostors are using their costumes for crime.

Not all of them think a pardon is enough.

After a lawmaker suggested dental checks on refugees, British dentists refused.

The Indonesian president has defended his suggestion that sex offenders be castrated.