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Italy Passes Law To Donate Extra Food To The Needy
FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images Food waste is a massive problem in Europe, and Italian lawmakers want to do something about it. On Tuesday, 181 senators voted to pass a bill that seeks to cut 20...
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Chinese Man Spends Two Weeks As Refugee After Accidentally Filling Out Asylum...
TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty Images When you think about all the things that could possibly go wrong while on vacation, getting trapped in German bureaucracy is not likely to be the first thing to cross...
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La Tomatina Festival: Inside Spain’s Bizarre, Tomato-Throwing Festival
Click here to view slideshow Every year on the last Wednesday of August, La Tomatina festival takes over the town of Buñol in Valencia, Spain. Approximately 20,000 people gather to throw around 150...
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Dutch Ban On Gas-Powered Cars “Likely To Become Law,” Officials Say
Sean Gallup/Getty Images A new bill that bans gas and diesel-powered vehicles in the entirety of the Netherlands is likely to become law, proponents say. Originally sponsored by the Labor Party and...
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Italy Creates “Fertility Day” To Remind Women That Future Should Involve A Baby
Public Domain As Italy grapples with declining birthrates and slumping economic growth, Italian lawmakers actually made a “day” to remind women that their future should involve a baby. “Celebrated” on...
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Why Isn’t Belgium’s King Leopold II As Reviled As Hitler Or Stalin?
Leopold II’s rule over the Congo was a horror story with a body count on par with Hitler’s, so why haven’t more people heard of him? Wikimedia Commons Belgium is not the first European country we think...
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Mandatory Contraception For “Incompetent” Mothers, Dutch City Council Says
Pixabay/Public Domain Rotterdam city council has just called for courts to give “incompetent” mothers mandatory contraception, Dutch newspaper NRC reported. Proponents say compulsory contraception is...
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France No Longer Sterilizing Transgender People
Wikimedia CommonsThe Palais de Justice in Paris. France will no longer require transgender people to be sterilized before being legally allowed to change genders. The legislation was finally passed...
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The 23 Craziest Superweapons Only The Nazis Could Have Dreamed Up
Click here to view slideshow Wunderwaffe. Even in the original German, the term (which translates to "wonder weapon") sounds positively pleasant. However, the terrifying yet often comedically ambitious...
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The Deadliest Mass Shooting In Recorded History
LISE ASERUD/AFP/Getty ImagesAnders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, makes a Nazi salute as he enters the court room in Skien prison on March 15, 2016. Silje Tobiassen was a...
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Ireland’s President Takes Voluntary Pay Cut For Good Cause
Wikipedia / Pixabay / ATI Composite Many heads of state wouldn’t dream of foregoing a portion of their paycheck — and yet Ireland’s president Michael D. Higgins recently announced not just that he will...
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All Internet Memes Should Be Banned, Spanish Political Party Says
Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty ImagesSpanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. Spain’s current ruling party is fed up with Internet memes — so much so that they want to ban them. After Madrid regional MP...
View ArticleThis Spanish Town Pelts A Monster With Turnips During The Jarramplas Festival
Click here to view slideshow You could never accuse Spain of being dull. Every January on Saint Sebastian Day in the city of Piornal, a man dons the colorful armor of the devil-like folk character...
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Terror Attacks Fell Worldwide Yet Surged 650% In Developed World Last Year
Christopher Furlong/Getty ImagesThe Eiffel Tower is illuminated in red, white, and blue in honor of the victims of the terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015. Across the world, 29,376 people died...
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Trump’s Immigrant Grandfather Banished From Germany For Evading Military Service
Wikipedia / ATI Composite Avoiding military service may run in the family. Newly-discovered historical documents help explain why German officials forced Friedrich Trump, President-elect Donald Trump’s...
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Nazi Language Increasingly Common In Germany’s Discussion Of Refugee Crisis
Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesSupporters of the AfD political party protest against German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s liberal policy towards taking in migrants and refugees on October 14, 2015 in Magdeburg,...
View ArticleLetizia Battaglia’s Photos Take You To The Bloody Heart Of The Sicilian Mafia
Click here to view slideshow If Letizia Battaglia could tell Americans one thing, it’s to stop watching "The Sopranos." “Americans love ‘The Sopranos,’” the Sicilian photographer told CNN. “They don’t...
View Article27 Astounding Images From Spain’s Centuries-Old Baby Jumping Festival
Click here to view slideshow With all its tedious rites and rituals, many consider Catholicism to be one of the most boring religions ever. One glimpse at a festival known as El Colacho, however, and...
View ArticleWelcome To Chamonix, The French Alps’ Real-Life Winter Wonderland
Click here to view slideshow It pays to be beautiful, and the town of Chamonix proves it. One of the oldest ski resorts in all of France, Chamonix is nestled among the massive peaks of the French Alps....
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Pigeons in Barcelona Are Going On The Pill
Frederic Brown/Getty Images As political changes sweep the globe, many women are concerned that their birth control will no longer be on the house. There’s one group, however, that doesn’t have to...
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