Harvard College is changing its essay requirements for high school seniors applying for admission, nodding to the recent Supreme Court ruling that struck down affirmative action in college admissions.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unveiled a new range of enhanced missiles on Saturday in its latest display of military hardware, the country’s state-run TV reported.
Pakistan’s former premier Imran Khan will not be able to contest elections scheduled to be held by November, after he was convicted of hiding the proceeds from selling state gifts when he was in power.
Vietnam aims to boost economic growth to “about 9%” in the second half of the year as the government will maintain its gross domestic product growth target for 2023, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said, according to a post on the government’s website that cited proceedings at a cabinet meeting Saturday.
The US, the UK and Singapore pulled out of a youth scout gathering in South Korea where hundreds of participants suffered from heat-related illness.
Prime prices are up 15% compared with a year earlier, according to Savills.
A group of renewables investors can seize control of a property in an affluent London neighborhood owned by the Spanish government in a bid to enforce a more than €120 million ($132 million) arbitration award, a judge ordered.
The Netherlands, once among the leaders in LGBTQ rights, has been failing to create a more open society for all people lately, according to the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science.
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra postponed a plan to return from 15 years of self-imposed exile by about two weeks, as a political party backed by his family faces hurdles in forming a government.
Greece’s investment-grade status was restored by Scope Ratings, evidence of its progress in repairing public finances 13 years after it became the first euro-zone member to be cut to junk.
