Month: July 2018

A look at the best news photos from around the world. …

France has won a second soccer World Cup title at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, defeating Croatia 4-2. …

France has clinched its second World Cup title with a 4-2 win over Croatia in a dramatic final in Moscow featuring a series of firsts and a pitch invasion orchestrated by Russian protest group Pussy Riot.   France led 2-1 at halftime courtesy of the first own-goal and the first video-reviewed penalty in a World …

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Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic has won his fourth Wimbledon title and 13th Grand Slam career victory, defeating South African player Kevin Anderson 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 in the men’s singles final. …

More than 20 children with cystic fibrosis in Siberia’s Kemerovo region have come down with a potentially deadly infection. Parents say local officials are preventing them from getting the antibiotics they need and are not doing enough to prevent the transmission of such infections in hospitals. …

The separation of families at the U.S.-Mexico border caught the attention of the world and prompted mass outrage, but it’s only a small part of the Trump administration’s immigration policy. The government is working to harden the system on multiple fronts to curb immigration, carving a path around various court rulings to do so. The …

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The U.S. homeland security chief says the country’s intelligence officials are seeing “persistent Russian efforts” to use social media and other resources to create divisions among the American people. …

U.S. President Donald Trump said he intends to run for re-election in 2020 because “everybody wants me to” and there are no Democratic candidates who could defeat him, the Mail on Sunday newspaper reported. Asked by British journalist Piers Morgan in an interview Friday whether he was going to run in 2020, Trump was quoted …

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Iraq’s National Security Council deployed security forces and cut internet services Saturday as protests that began in Basra spread to several other cities. The council held an emergency meeting Saturday in Baghdad after protests over high unemployment, poor government services and corruption spread from Basra to Baghdad, Najaf, Amara and Nasiriyah. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi issued …

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U.S. President Donald Trump says in an interview that President Vladimir Putin is “probably” a “ruthless person,” in remarks made ahead of his summit with the Russian leader. …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has discussed the situation in Syria with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a phone conversation on July 14, the Kremlin said in a statement. …

Nancy Sinatra Sr., the childhood sweetheart of Frank Sinatra who became the first of his four wives and the mother of his three children, has died. She was 101. Her daughter, Nancy Sinatra Jr., tweeted that her mother died Friday and a posting on her web page said she died at 6:02 p.m. but didn’t …

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A 15-year-old died Friday in Gaza during Palestinian clashes with Israeli forces along the Gaza border. The Gaza Health Ministry reported Friday that the Palestinian teenager was killed during clashes that also saw 25 people injured. The death brings to 136 the number of protest deaths on the border since weekly clashes began March 30. …

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Guatemalan Yeni González is one of the few mothers able to see their children after they were separated earlier this year under the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy when they tried to cross the southern U.S. border illegally. VOA’s Celia Mendoza reported last week when González traveled to New York to see her children at …

Read more “Criminal Gangs in Guatemala Drive Many to Flee”

The White House is rejecting calls from leading members of Congress to cancel a U.S.-Russian presidential summit in the wake of indictments that for the first time charge the Russian government with directly interfering in the 2016 presidential election. …

A top adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Iran seek a deal with the United States to ease the economic “pain” of looming sanctions. …

The U.S. Department of Commerce on July 13 lifted a ban on U.S. companies selling equipment to Chinese telecom giant ZTE, allowing the company to resume business. …