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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
Turkey says it is holding talks with the United States on the purchase of Patriot antiaircraft systems. …
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has urged Russia to return to compliance with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, a cornerstone of arms control for decades. …
Singapore plans to upgrade a fleet of US-made fighter jets with an initial purchase of four more advanced F-35 models to replace F-16s. The defense minister of the city-state, Ng Eng Hen, told parliament Friday that the price has not been determined. A request to buy the Lockheed Martin jets would be subject to U.S. …
A 77-year-old Russian pensioner has found global fame after 30 million people saw our video of her skating across the ice of Lake Baikal in Siberia. …
A survey conducted by Nigeria’s Bureau of Statistics and UNICEF shows millions of households in Nigeria do not have access to clean water sources. While the supply of clean water in Nigeria has improved recently, 3 in 10 people still lack access. Timothy Obiezu reports from Abuja. …
Armenia is marking the 11th anniversary of a bloody 2008 crackdown on protesters who were then challenging the official result of the country’s presidential election that year. …
The bishops of the Catholic Church in South Sudan are expressing concern about the future of South Sudan’s peace agreement, signed last year. The bishops said in a statement Thursday they welcomed the agreement as a step forward. “However, the concrete situation on the ground demonstrates that it is not addressing the root causes of …
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Huawei Device Co Ltd and Huawei Device USA Inc pleaded not guilty on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Seattle on fraud, trade secrets conspiracy and other charges, the Justice Department said. The units of China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd were arraigned and Chief U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez set trial for March 2, …
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Online crafts retailer Etsy Inc will go green by offsetting planet-warming carbon emissions from its shipping activities, the U.S. company said Wednesday, joining a host of companies making public moves to battle climate change. Etsy will buy clean energy certificates supporting tree conservation in the United States, wind and solar power in India and clean …
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Russian news agencies say authorities have filed criminal charges against the owners of four companies in the Pacific region of Primorye for holding dozens of captive whales in shoddy and cramped conditions. …
A blind Russian man is offering blindfolded tours of Yekaterinburg to people with who can see. Vladimir Vaskevic says the tour gives people a chance to enter his world and to experience the Russian city through touch, sound, smell, and taste. …
A trainload of tanks, guns, and other military hardware that Russia says it seized from Islamic State is travelling from Moscow to Vladivostok in an effort to promote the Kremlin’s military campaign to shore up the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad. …
Congressional Democrats on Wednesday criticized a plan to divert money from Defense Department projects to fund President Donald Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall under emergency powers. At a committee hearing that yielded a few new details about how Trump wants to move money between accounts without the approval of Congress, the Democratic chairwoman of the panel delivered a harsh rebuke to Pentagon …
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