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Russia last year expanded its restrictions on the promotion of what it calls "LGBT propaganda" amid a broader clampdown on queer rights.

The government has multiplied the size of its biggest bank note in circulation by five — to 10,000 pesos, worth about $10 — so people don't have to carry so much cash worth so little.

The mission of Fist Club is to prove “that wrestling isn’t just drag for straight people, it’s drag for everyone.”

Members of the central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee voted 7-2 to hold, with the latter favoring a cut. In the prior meeting only one member voted for a cut.

More than 100,000 packs are being recalled in Japan after part of what appeared to be a small animal was found in a batch of “chojuku” bread.

President Yoon Suk Yeol also apologized for a controversy over his wife’s acceptance of an expensive handbag and said he would set up a government ministry to tackle the country’s flagging birth rates.

The prime minister of Thailand, the first country in Asia to legalize the drug, ordered that it be restricted to medical use amid concerns that the lack of regulation had made it available to children and increased crimes.

In a much pared-down parade indicating the strains of war in Ukraine, Russia showed off just one T-34 tank and there were no leaders from the West.

"My motherly instincts told me something was wrong with her," Melody Jones said of her son's Russian girlfriend.

The torch was lit in Greece last month before it was officially handed to France. It left Athens aboard a ship named Belem, which was first used in 1896, and spent 12 days at sea.

State prosecutors, who had initially brought the allegations forward, now say “there is not sufficient evidence” of a fiscal crime.