Month: August 2017

The FBI has searched the Virginia home of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, U.S. media report, amid an ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election. …

French police have shot and arrested a suspect following a highway chase after a car rammed into soldiers outside a barracks in a Paris suburb, injuring six. …

Supporters of ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his party thronged the streets of Islamabad to give him a rousing sendoff. (RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal) …

Hun Sen shopping. Hun Sen working out. Hun Sen, family guy. For the 65-year-old prime minister of Cambodia, a onetime Khmer Rouge commander, his recent about-face to show a warm and fuzzy side is a startling development. The man who now has 8.5 million Facebook followers oversaw Cambodia’s emergence from civil war and has dominated …

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The U.S. Marine Corps for the first time is eyeing a plan to let women attend what has been male-only combat training in Southern California, as officials work to quash recurring problems with sexism and other bad behavior among Marines, according to Marine Corps officials. If approved by senior Marine leaders, the change could happen …

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Lawyers defending Brazilian President Michel Temer against corruption allegations asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to remove the prosecutor general from the investigation, arguing he was no longer fit to lead it. In a filing to the top court, Temer’s lawyers said Brazil’s top federal prosecutor, Rodrigo Janot, who has charged the president with taking …

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North Korea said on August 9 that it is “carefully examining” plans to launch a missile strike on the U.S. Pacific island of Guam hours after U.S. President Donald Trump warned Pyongyang that any threats would be met with “fire and fury.” …

The Taliban released 235 hostages from a remote village in northern Afghanistan where it allegedly massacred as many as 50 mostly Shi’ite civilians in a rare joint assault with Islamic State insurgents, officials said on August 8. …

Tajikistan on August 8 accused Iran of backing high-profile killings during the Central Asian nation’s civil war in the 1990s, including the assassination of the former chairman of the Tajik parliament Safarali Kenjaev in 1999. …

A group of volunteers are dedicating their time and sewing skills to preserve old garments. As Faiza Elmasry reports, the Textile Project in Harford County in Maryland, makes connections between the past and the present. Faith Lapidus narrates. …

It’s not just people who like playing computer games. Animals of different species also seem to be fascinated with video games and touch screens, as researchers and zoos try this technology on animals. VOA’s Elizabeth Lee reports from the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California. …

A judge in Detroit has halted the deportation of 1,400 Iraqis nationwide until their cases can be reviewed. Most of these Iraqi nationals were convicted of non-violent crimes, making them subject to deportation. But as VOA’s Sama Dizayee reports, they face persecution if they are sent back. …

China stands to lose the most from new United Nations sanctions against North Korea because of its close economic ties with the country, but is prepared to pay the price, Beijing’s foreign minister has said. …

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that a UN commission investigating war crimes in Syria should continue its work despite the resignation of a prominent member of the panel in protest. …

Russia will speed up efforts to reduce dependence on the U.S. dollar and credit card system in the wake of tough new sanctions imposed by Washington, a top diplomat says. …