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15 Photos Of The Massive Protests In Lebanon That Were Sparked By A WhatsApp Tax
Protesters from various religious backgrounds are angry over the crumbling state of the country and what they say is cronyism at the highest levels of government.
David Mack
Boris Johnson Has Been Forced To Request A Brexit Delay After MPs Blocked A Vote On His Deal
The prime minister has said he would rather be "dead in a ditch" than ask the EU for another extension to Article 50, but he sent the request on Saturday night.
Hannah Al-Othman
The Canadian Election’s Surprise Influencer Is A Buffalo Man Targeting Canadians With Viral Disinformation
Matthew Ricchiazzi has written debunked stories about Canadian politics and once told a US candidate he'd publish "negative articles about [their] opponents" for $400 apiece.
Jane Lytvynenko
Donald Trump's Impeachment, Explained For Non-Americans
Why is the US president being impeached, and who are all these new people?!
Mark Di Stefano
Turkish Trolls Working For Erdogan Hijacked American Right-Wing Media — And Rudy Giuliani’s Brain
Here's how Turkish trolls infiltrated American conservative media, spread propaganda, and got Giuliani to fall for it.
Ryan Broderick
Inside The Disastrous Launch Of Australia’s Response To The #MeToo Movement
Revealed: The women behind NOW promised change — but mistakes have plagued Australia’s answer to the #MeToo movement.
Hannah Ryan
Trump’s Acting Chief Of Staff Acknowledged That The White House Withheld Ukrainian Aid So The Country Would Help Investigate Democrats
Mick Mulvaney just said the quiet part loud.
Sarah Mimms
EU Leaders Have Not Expressed A View On Delaying Brexit. That Doesn't Mean They Wouldn't.
Following a discussion between EU leaders, a senior European government official told BuzzFeed News: "The feeling is that an extension would, if requested, be given".
Alberto Nardelli
Trump Rambled His Way Through A Defense Of His Syria Decision That Made No Sense
Even more freewheeling than usual, the president at one point said that the US no longer needs to care about the Middle East, because "it's 7,000 miles away."
Hayes Brown
The Kurds Were Fighting ISIS Long Before The US Was. This Is What It Was Like.
Before the US joined the war on ISIS, before Trump abandoned them, the Kurds were waging a lonely fight against the jihadis in a forgotten patch of Syria. This is their origin story.
Mike Giglio
War Hawks, Peace Activists, Scholars, And Humanitarians Agree: Trump Made Syria Much, Much Worse
BuzzFeed News reached out to a wide range of experts after Turkey launched an assault on the US-backed Kurds, and they all agree — things are about as bad as can be.
Hayes Brown
The Trump Impeachment Saga Is Basically Shakespearean. This Is Its Cast Of Characters.
We were having trouble keeping track of the many people involved in the Ukraine adventures at the heart of the impeachment inquiry, so we made this for ourselves — and you.
Hayes Brown
Kurdish Forces Previously Allied With The US Have Turned To Russian-Backed Syria For Help
"If we have to choose between compromises and the genocide of our people, we will surely choose life for our people."
Matthew Champion
18 Really Excellent Zero-Waste Travel Products That'll Make The Earth A Little Better
Skip the single-use plastic this trip.
Farrah Penn
These Photos Show The Destruction Of Typhoon Hagibis In Japan
Estimated to be Japan's largest storm in decades, Typhoon Hagibis slammed the country with torrential rain and heavy winds.
Ryan Mac
Three Generations Of Women From The Same Family Took On Three Dictators Over Half A Century
The courageous young women at the forefront of the Sudanese revolution were following in their mothers’ — and grandmothers’ — footsteps.
Tamerra Griffin
Thousands Of Gay Men Asked This Chemsex Adviser For Help On Grindr With Their Drug Problems. The App Blocked Him.
“This is the biggest tragedy happening in the gay community since the years of AIDS,” Ignacio Labayen de Inza told BuzzFeed News.
Patrick Strudwick
Apple Told Some Apple TV+ Show Developers Not To Anger China
We thought trade would bring Western values to China. Instead, it brought Chinese values to Apple.
Alex Kantrowitz
A Man Handed Over Sexually Explicit Photos To Prove He Was Gay. A Tribunal Said He Staged Them.
Exclusive: The tribunal was "not prepared to accept that these photos are genuine, non-staged photos" of the man having gay sex.
Hannah Ryan
Hong Kong Has Weaponized The City’s Subway Against Protesters
The subway has closed early all week after MTR stations were damaged in last week’s protests. Some are calling it a government tool to impose a curfew.
Rosalind Adams
The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize Has Been Awarded To The Prime Minister Of Ethiopia
Abiy Ahmed was honored for his work towards ending the 20-year conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Matthew Champion
Iranian Women Were Allowed To Attend A Soccer Match For The First Time In Nearly 40 Years
The conservative regime only allowed 4,000 tickets for women in a stadium that seats about 80,000. Rights groups blasted it as "a cynical publicity stunt.”
Olivia Niland
Trump Said His Former Ambassador To Ukraine Was "Bad News." Now She’s Due To Testify To Congress.
Marie Yovanovitch was described by those who worked with her as a diplomat’s diplomat. But her early recall from her post in Ukraine has raised questions she's due to answer before Congress.
Christopher Miller
Apple Has Removed A Mapping App That Let Protesters In Hong Kong Track Police
"This app violates our guidelines and local laws, and we have removed it from the App Store."
Pranav Dixit
India Is Creating A National Facial Recognition System, And Critics Are Afraid Of What Will Happen Next
“Unless we all get plastic surgery at the same time, there’s nothing we can do about it.”
Pranav Dixit
Rudy Giuliani Sent Trump On A Wild Goose Chase With A Bunch Of Fake Internet Nonsense
To understand why Trump is so obsessed with Ukraine, you have to understand the nonsense Rudy Giuliani reads on the internet.
Ryan Broderick
125 People Were Staffing An Empty Detention Centre. This Is What They All Did.
Politician: “So they’re guarding an empty facility?” Bureaucrat: “Well, they're maintaining its operational status.”
Hannah Ryan
A Gunman Apparently Motivated By Anti-Semitism Livestreamed Himself On Twitch Attacking A Synagogue
Two people were killed in Halle, Germany, by a gunman in an attack prosecutors are now calling an act of far-right violence.
Ryan Broderick
There's A Blizzard Boycott Movement After A "Hearthstone" Player Was Suspended For Supporting Hong Kong Protesters
Memers are turning popular characters, like Overwatch's Mei, into pro-democracy protesters.
Lauren Strapagiel
The Cave Rescuer Suing Elon Musk Claims The Tesla CEO Fabricated Pedophilia Claims Against Him
Musk: "I’m a fucking idiot."
Ryan Mac
