Month: March 2019

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

Somali authorities say the body of a seven month-old boy has been recovered the rubble three days after an al-Shabab attack killed at least 25 people in Mogadishu last Thursday. The boy identified as Munasar Mohamed, was with his mother who worked at a beauty salon on Maka al-Mukarama road when the militants detonated a …

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Top Democratic lawmakers vowed Sunday to step up their investigations of U.S. President Donald Trump and his connections to Russia during the 2016 presidential election. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler told ABC News that on Monday his panel would be issuing requests for documents to 60 people, “to begin the investigations to present the …

Read more “Top Democrats Vow to Intensify Trump Probes”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel and Russia have agreed to establish a joint team to advance the withdrawal of foreign forces from Syria. …

A planned meeting of hundreds of Afghan politicians and tribal, ethnic, and religious leaders aimed at discussing negotiations with the Taliban has been postponed, officials say. …

Voters in Estonia went to the polls on March 3 to choose the Baltic nation’s 101-seat legislature, with Prime Minister Juri Ratas’ Center Party likely to receive the most votes. Reuters found early voters casting their ballots in the capital, Tallinn. Estonia has a sizable Russian-speaking minority, with ethnic Russians making up about 25 percent …

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Bernie Sanders, the independent U.S. senator who represented third-party interests in the 2016 U.S. presidential race, on Saturday stepped back into the spotlight with a rally for his 2020 run at the presidency.    The rally at Brooklyn College, which he attended, was meant to showcase a more personal aspect of the candidate not emphasized …

Read more “Sanders Holds Campaign Kickoff Rally in Birthplace”

The European Parliament has urged Kosovo to withdraw its 100-percent tariff on goods from Serbia to help restart normalization talks between the Western Balkan neighbors. …

An Indian government minister says New Delhi will not share proof that a large number of militants were killed in a compound inside Pakistan late last month, after Islamabad raised doubts that any insurgents were harmed in the air strike. …

Big crowds converged on Alaska’s largest city Saturday as hundreds of dogs and their humans kicked off the 47th running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race with a ceremonial sprint along snow-heaped streets.    The fan-friendly event in Anchorage brought spectators up close to the 52 musher-dog teams gearing up for the famed 1,000-mile …

Read more “Crowds Cheer Kickoff of Alaska’s Iditarod Race “

Estonians are going to the polls on March 3 to choose the Baltic nation’s 101-seat legislature, with Prime Minister Juri Ratas’ pro-Russia Center Party likely to receive the most votes. …

U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would soon sign an executive order requiring American universities and colleges to maintain “free speech” on campuses and threatened that schools not complying could lose  federal research funds.  Trump made his remarks at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference after bringing to the stage Hayden Williams, a conservative activist who was punched …

Read more “Trump Vows Executive Order Requiring ‘Free Speech’ at Colleges”

Scientists estimate half of the world’s corals have been devastated as climate change has led to warmer oceans. When water temperatures get too high, corals become stressed and expel the algae that coats their tissues and provides the corals’ primary food source. The corals gradually lose their color, known as bleaching, and many of them …

Read more “Corals Thrive in Red Sea as Reefs Worldwide Are Devastated”

White House officials are worried that unless more American students study math and science the United States won’t be able to compete with China, India and other nations. The U.S. administration has just published a five-year plan to boost the number of kids who go into Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, or STEM subjects. VOA’s …

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The parents of U.S. student Otto Warmbier, who died after abuse in North Korean detention, have strongly rebuked comments by President Donald Trump. After meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Trump said he took Kim at his word that he did not know what happened to Warmbier. Human rights organizations say …

Read more “Human Rights Advocates ‘Flabbergasted’ by Trump Warmbier Comments”

ndian and Pakistani forces continued their fierce artillery barrages in the divided Himalayan territory of Kashmir, with both sides accusing the other of initiating the deadly shelling. …

Indian officials, accompanied at a border crossing by representatives of the Red Cross, greeted a pilot who had been freed minutes earlier by Pakistan. …