Month: June 2017

Days after a deadly bombing, several protesters were killed as a demonstration calling for better security in Afghanistan’s capital turned violent. (RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan) …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged U.S. business representatives to work with President Donald Trump’s administration to improve relations between the two countries. …

A former Kosovo president had to turn back from the border with Serbia, where she was to participate in an event meant to promote dialogue between the former war enemies. …

For Roseleine Duperval, the U.N. mission to stabilize Haiti will always remind her of one thing: her 8-year-old daughter, who she says was fathered by a Uruguayan peacekeeper. Duperval is among a group of Haitian women who embarked on a long, largely fruitless journey to try to force peacekeepers who they say fathered their children …

Read more “Haitian Women Press for Recognition From UN Peacekeeper Fathers”

Everything you need to know about the primary goals of the Paris Climate Accords. …

Gunfire and explosions were reported at a tourist complex in the Philippine capital, Manila. …

They are veteran Syrian rebels who for years tried to bring down President Bashar Assad. These days they’re doing little fighting with his forces as they struggle to find a place in Syria’s bewildering battlefield, where several wars are being waged at once.   Battered by defeats and divisions, the rebels reel around trying to …

Read more “Short of Allies, Syria’s Rebels Are Down But Not Out”

Former U.S. FBI Director James Comey is scheduled to testify on June 8 before a congressional panel investigating allegations of Russian interference in last year’s presidential election, the Senate Intelligence Committee said. …

Russia’s ambassador to NATO says Moscow will respond to the alliance’s military deployment in Eastern members. …

SpaceX is taking recycling to a whole new realm — all the way to orbit. On this week’s supply run to the International Space Station, SpaceX will launch a Dragon capsule that’s already traveled there. The milestone comes just two months after the launch of its first reused rocket booster for a satellite. “This whole …

Read more “Cargo Ship Soon Headed to Space Station Is Being Recycled”

An Indian charity is using big data to pinpoint human trafficking hot spots in a bid to prevent vulnerable women and girls vanishing from high-risk villages into the sex trade. My Choices Foundation uses specially designed technology to identify those villages that are most at risk of modern slavery, then launches local campaigns to sound …

Read more “Big Data Maps India’s Human Traffic Hot Spots”

The House intelligence committee said Wednesday it is issuing subpoenas for former national security adviser Michael Flynn and President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, as well as their businesses, as part of its investigation into Russian activities during last year’s election. In addition to those four subpoenas, the committee has issued three others, to …

Read more “House Committee Subpoenas Flynn, Cohen; Comey to Testify”

The crash of a Russian military plane that killed 92 people last year, including members of Russia’s renowned army choir, was likely caused by pilot disorientation, Russian media reported on May 31. …

Macedonia’s parliament has elected a new center-left coalition government led by former opposition leader Zoran Zaev, ending a six-month political stalemate. …

Montenegro’s Prime Minister Dusko Markovic said on May 31 that the Kremlin has a secret list of Montenegrin officials who are banned from entering Russia due to the small Balkan nation’s participation in Western sanctions over Ukraine. …