Month: May 2017

A Canadian charged with working with Russian intelligence agents in a scheme to hack a half billion Yahoo accounts said on May 26 that he is appealing a decision to hold him in custody pending a hearing on a U.S. extradition request. …

U.S. President Donald Trump said on May 27 that NATO will be stronger because member countries have increased their payments to the alliance “considerably.” …

British police investigating the deadly terror attack in Manchester say they have made two more arrests as they step up their efforts to capture a suspected network they believe suicide bomber Salman Abedi was a part of. …

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners on Saturday ended a 40-day hunger strike over conditions in Israeli jails, the Israel Prison Service and a Palestinian official said. About 1,100 inmates had initially taken part in one of the largest such hunger strikes, which began on April 17. It raised tensions between Israel and the Palestinians, with protests …

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Britain lowered its security threat level Saturday to “severe,” Prime Minister Theresa May said, as police continue to make progress investigating the suicide bomb attack in Manchester. British police say they have arrested two more people in connection with the suicide bombing earlier in the week after an Ariana Grande concert. The Greater Manchester Police …

Read more “Britain Lowers Threat Level to ‘Severe’ as Bombing Probe Progresses”

A South Korean Defense Ministry official says a South Korean fishing vessel has apparently been hijacked in the waters off of Somalia. The official told the French News Agency, “The boat sent a message that she was being approached by some unidentified vessels” and then contact with the boat was lost. South Korea’s anti-piracy unit …

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A key U.S. Senate committee has moved forward on new legislation aimed at countering Russian propaganda and election meddling in the United States and elsewhere. …

One traffic spat in western Zambia has grown into an international incident with life-or-death implications — one that could taint Zambia’s history of peaceful and democratic rule. For more than six weeks now, opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has been in jail, awaiting trial on treason charges, which carry a possible death penalty. He was arrested …

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A group of 50 Somali nationals deported from the United States arrived in Mogadishu on Friday, officials says.   The Somali ambassador to United States, Ahmed Isse Awad, told VOA Somali that the 50 deportees are the second group to be sent to Mogadishu this month.   “There were 50 people deported; 30 of them were removed …

Read more “Their American Dream Deferred, Deported Somalis Arrive Home”

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on graduates to fight for “truth and reason” Friday during a commencement address at her alma mater. “Don’t be afraid of your ambition, of your dreams, or even your anger,” she told Wellesley College’s class of 2017. “Those are powerful forces, but harness them to make a …

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British police say they have made “significant arrests and finds” in their investigation into the deadly terror attack in Manchester. …

Seven independent countries have emerged from the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. But, as a recent Gallup poll shows, the residents of two of them are more nostalgic than the rest for the former shared state. …

U.S. Native Americans are expressing alarm over President Donald Trump’s proposed 2018 federal budget, which calls for across-the-board spending cuts to agencies and programs that provide them with critical services. The Department of the Interior (DOI), which houses the Bureau of Indian Affairs, faces a nearly 11 percent budget reduction. The Bureau of Indian Affairs …

Read more “Trump Budget Calls For Cuts to Native American Health Care, Housing”

President Donald Trump says he is deeply troubled by leaks to U.S. media about the Manchester bombing investigation in Britain and promises an investigation. Leaked details about the probe, including the bomber’s name and police pictures of the evidence, have incensed British investigators. They briefly suspended sharing information with the U.S. Thursday. “I am asking …

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Under a sunny spring sky, NATO on Thursday moved into brand new, shiny headquarters projecting a modern, forward-looking image that counters the characterization that U.S. President Donald Trump and other critics of the alliance have previously made of the organization. Amid the anxiety felt by some European leaders about the future, some see Thursday’s NATO …

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John Kerry, who served as secretary of state under the first black president of the United States, lamented the state of relations between Moscow and Washington this week, as he encouraged Harvard University students to go learn Russian. …