A court in singapore refused last month to strike down colonial legislation criminalizing sects between men. The russian army announced its moving troops away from the ukranian capital, kiev and the northern city of chernehe. And what happens when a lower middle income country decides to ban the import of used cars more than one year old? People bring in oldde cars, illegally, of course.
It appears that Russian forces are withdrawing from Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, to focus on the eastern region of Donbas. We examine what the shifting tactics signify. A court in Singapore has refused to strike a colonial-era anti-gay law from its books, despite the fact it is never enforced; we ask why. And what’s behind Bolivia’s preponderance of contraband Japanese cars.
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