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Around 30,000 North Koreans have successfully defected to the South. But under the reign of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, far fewer people are getting out.
When “Silicon Valley” returns for its fifth season on HBO on Sunday, the Pied Piper crew will be in charge, for a change, as well as a man down.
The March for Our Lives is another display of energy on the left, but the gun issue could play out differently in House and Senate races.
For many people, kitchens are the center of the home. Tech and appliance makers, aiming to deepen ties to customers, are increasingly targeting that room with smart devices.
The No. 1 Wildcats emerged amid a bracket full of upsets to become the first top-seeded team to reach the national semifinals.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 21, 2018, covering March 25, 2018.
Logic
Lil Yachty
David Byrne
Soundtrack
Judas Priest
2018Syrian civil war: Following the completion of the Afrin offensive, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) initiate an insurgency against the Turkish occupation of the Afrin District.[†]
The Syrian civil war began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring. The Assad regime responded to the protests with lethal force, sparking a civil war. The Syrian revolution lasted almost 14 years and culminated in the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. Many sources regard this as the end of the civil war.
In 2018, the world population was approximately 7,729,902,781 people[†]