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The political crisis on the Iberian peninsula continued to escalate on Friday when the Spanish state moved to impose direct rule over Catalonia following an overwhelming vote by the northeastern region’s parliament to declare independence. The upper house of the Spanish parliament gave the OK to Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to invoke the never-before-used Article…

The people of El Salvador and their international allies against irresponsible mining are celebrating a historic victory. After a long battle against global mining companies that were determined to plunder the country’s natural resources for short-term profits, El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly has voted to ban all metal mining projects. The new law is aimed at…

As much of the North American media focuses on the ongoing unprecedented flooding and relief efforts in Texas and now potentially Louisiana, another tragedy is unfolding, which is going largely unreported, in Asia. Whereas the death toll in Texas stands at 20, the estimated death toll in South Asia is estimated at 1,200 after weeks…

Well this is…awkward. According to an interview with the Sunday Times, Sophie Turner revealed she learned a lot of new things about sex when she first began filming Game of Thrones. That’s one way to get your sex education! Turner, who plays Sansa Stark in the hit HBO show, is 21-years-old now, but she was only 13 when the show…

“You ran against Iran. And if you want to hire me, that’s what I’m going to produce for you.” That is what newly appointed national security adviser John Bolton reportedly told President Donald Trump as he was being considered to replace H.R. McMaster in the White House’s most influential foreign policy position—a remark that appears…

Rodarte’s romantic spring collection signals that the fashion house has comfortably found its footing in Paris.  On Sunday, the brand’s designers and sisters, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, made their highly-anticipated Paris debut in the Cloître Port Royal gardens—their first collection since announcing “a resetting” from New York’s ready-to-wear circuit to Paris’s style scene. “I think we had started to…

If you love your butt and want an award for it, we’ve got the perfect competition for you. The Women’s Beautiful Buttock contest is a real thing, and it took place over the weekend in China. Women from all across the country turned up to show off their ass-ets. STR/AFP/Getty The competition took place in…

Arms control experts are raising concerns about a possible loophole in the Trump administration’s new arms export policy, arguing that it gives the administration further cover to sell weapons to some of the world’s worst human rights violators. When it was issued in April, the Trump administration’s Conventional Arms Transfer policy was widely panned by…

Nicole Richie is not having your typical Monday. In fact, it’s pretty darn fabulous. The House of Harlow designer posted a photo on Instagram of her and a large group of friends backstage before her father Lionel Richie’s concert tonight, and there are more than a few famous faces in the shot. In the ‘gram, we…

When Oprah weighed more than 200 lbs., she wanted to lean on the body positivity movement to feel comfortable about her weight—but she couldn’t do it without risking her health. ‘‘For your heart to pump, pump, pump, pump, it needs the least amount of weight possible to do that,” Winfrey, 63, tells The New York Times…