Month: November 2017

North Korea has dominated two days of talks between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump. Abe told reporters Monday all options are on the table to respond to North Korea’s weapons development, while Trump reiterated that the U.S. government stands in solidarity with allies in the region, especially Japan. VOA’s White …

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A court in Belarus has thrown out the unintentional manslaughter conviction handed down to a woman whose newborn child died after a home birth. …

This year will go down as one of the hottest on record, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said at the start of the UN climate conference in Bonn, Germany. …

Australia’s prime minister on Monday proposed making all lawmakers prove they are not dual citizens in a move that could threaten the stability of his own government.   The High Court last month disqualified five lawmakers, including two government ministers, because they breached a 116-year-old constitutional ban on foreign citizens sitting in parliament, creating an …

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A journalist with Russia’s Ekho Moskvy radio who was stabbed in the throat by an attacker last month says she is hoping for a full recovery. …

A powerful typhoon that blasted Vietnam’s south-central coast has killed at least 49 people, left more than a dozen missing and caused extensive damage to the region. 19 people are still missing, including nine crew members of cargo ships that sank off the coast of Khanh Hoa province, the Vietnam Disaster Management Authority said in …

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At least six people were killed and a dozen wounded when two bombings hit the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. …

Dozens of Belarusian opposition activists marched to Kurapaty, a site near Minsk, on November 5 to honor at least 30,000 people who were killed and buried there by the Soviet secret police under dictator Josef Stalin in the 1930s and ’40s. Organized by the opposition Belarusian Popular Front (BPF), the march was sanctioned by the …

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Saudi Arabia and its allied forces launched a new wave of airstrikes on targets in neighboring Yemen, where Riyadh has been leading a military alliance against Iran-backed Shi’ite Houthi militant forces since March 2015. Alhurra reported the airstrikes targeted the National Security building and the Ministry of Interior and other positions Sunday in the capital, …

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Unusual acts of defiance against government demands led to protests last week in Eritrea’s capital, Asmara, according to experts who study the region. The rare protests were the culmination of nearly two years of back-and-forth between the Ministry of Education and leaders of the Diaa Islamic School of Asmara, who defied government orders aimed at …

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Several thousand people have been evacuated from Moscow’s famous Bolshoi theater after bomb threats were received. …

Saudi Arabia on Saturday intercepted a ballistic missile fired at the international airport northeast of Riyadh, its state media said. The statement came after reports that a loud explosion had been heard in the area. Unconfirmed reports said the missile came from Yemen, where Saudi Arabia is leading a military alliance against the armed Houthi …

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A court in Zimbabwe on Saturday ordered a U.S. citizen held in jail while she faces allegations of subversion and undermining the authority of President Robert Mugabe. The American, Martha O’Donovan, who works for a Zimbabwe online TV station, was arrested Friday after police converged on her house with a search warrant during a dawn …

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One of Afghanistan’s most powerful former warlords has called for the complete withdrawal of foreign forces and fresh presidential elections, in an interview with RFE/RL. …

The United States has ordered all non-essential employees of its mission to Somalia to leave the capital, Mogadishu, citing “specific threat information” against them. The statement issued Saturday by the U.S. State Department relates the threat information to Mogadishu International Airport, protected by African Union Troops and run by a Turkish firm. “Due to specific …

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