During periods of extreme violence, arocky men will often change their hair for safety reasons. A neat moustache can be assigned that you work for the army or intelligence services. And a big, bushy, droopy mustache is a trademark that you are a member of the kakais. But cenly, the country has been enjoying more stability. So it seems to me that the mustache is making a little bit of a come back.
America’s Supreme Court has essentially shorn the Environmental Protection Agency of its agency in making national policy. We ask what that means for the climate-change fight. Hong Kong is marking 25 years since its handover from Britain to China; the promised “one country, two systems” approach is all but gone already. And why moustaches are back in Iraq.
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