The UOC is part of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, which has about 150 million followers globally, signifying the largest Orthodox Church in the world.
China and Brazil have signed a deal to trade in their own currencies, bypassing the U.S. dollar as an intermediary, to reduce costs and promote bilateral trade.
Students are speaking out against an Illinois high school that threatened to discipline students who protest the use of bathrooms on the basis of gender identity, rather than biological sex.
