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His support of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile is his “Achilles’ heel,” a scholar says, while in the U.S., the Vietnam War was one of the sparks of the Chicano movement.

As national security adviser to President Richard Nixon, Kissinger helped establish U.S.-China relations, but his close ties with the ruling Communist Party were later criticized.

The move is part of a pattern of increasing restrictions in Russia on expressions of sexual orientation and gender identity.

The Pogues fused Irish traditional music and rock ’n’ roll into a unique, intoxicating blend.

Taiwan has urged its elderly and very young people to avoid travel to mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau.

He came to be seen as one of the leading diplomats and international relations intellectuals of the 20th century. But he was also one of the most singularly reviled public figures of his age.

President Tsai Ing-wen cited China’s internal economic, financial and political challenges, and that “the international community has made it loud and clear that war is not an option.”

Kim Yo Jong dismissed U.S. condemnations of the North’s recent spy satellite launch and said it will “never sit face to face with the U.S.” for talks it sees as threatening its sovereignty.

U.S. forces in Japan have also been asked to ground the aircraft after a U.S. Air Force Osprey crashed off the Japanese coast, leaving one dead and seven missing.

The program, initiated by the Elton John AIDS Foundation, aims to identify HIV in people who may not know they have the virus by expanding blood tests at some English hospitals.

Nikhil Gupta, an Indian national, was arrested in the Czech Republic on June 30 on murder-for-hire charges.