Category: World

An international rights group has asked Pakistani authorities to investigate the death of a human rights activist while in police custody and release other activists arrested for protesting his alleged killing. “There must be an immediate and effective investigation into the death of Arman Luni. There are credible accounts that he may have been beaten …

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F.A. Cole was 11 when her stepmother told her to dress up for a special occasion near her hometown of Freetown, Sierra Leone.    It was, instead, a traumatic occasion, Cole recalls 34 years later. Her stepmother turned her over to a small group of women, who led her into a forest and bound and …

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Tajikistan has set up a special commission to assess whether the country needs to build new mosques and reopen some of the places of worship that had been closed down by authorities in recent years, a government official says. …

The son of the former Kyrgyz ambassador to the United States has been sentenced to three years in a U.S. prison after he pleaded guilty to trying to smuggle weapons to Chechnya. …

Turkey has denounced French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to set April 24 as a day to commemorate the “Armenian genocide” as political manipulation. …

In the foreign policy section of his State of the Union Address, U.S. President Donald Trump spoke of ending conflicts where American troops have fought for years, and preventing what he sees as inevitable future conflicts if not for the policies enacted by his administration. Afghanistan, Iraq wars Trump noted the vast costs of the …

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U.S. President Donald Trump has described U.S. talks with the Taliban as “constructive.” In his second State of the Union address delivered to the U.S. Congress on February 5, Trump declared, “We do not know whether we will achieve an agreement, but we do know that after two decades of war, the hour has come …

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Stacey Abrams, former Georgia state legislative leader who fell short last fall in her bid to become first African-American woman to win a governorship, gave the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s address …

Stacey Abrams, a former Georgia state legislative leader who fell short last fall in her bid to become the first African-American woman to win a governorship, gave the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union message Tuesday night. Here are highlights of her remarks. Abrams stressed the need for bipartisanship and the …

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U.S. President Donald Trump has said that the United States had “no choice” when it withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with Russia. In his second State of the Union address delivered before the U.S. Congress on February 5, Trump declared, “Perhaps, we can negotiate a different agreement, adding China and others, or …

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Trump’s State Of the Union address came as his administration braced for new political battles with congressional Democrats who took control of the House of Representatives in the November midterm elections. …

Stacey Abrams, who has been chosen to give the Democratic response to the State of the Union, is a rising political star in the Democratic Party and the first African-American woman to deliver the address. Abrams recently showed that she can mobilize the power of black women voters in her close but unsuccessful bid to become …

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Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has said there are no immediate plans to push forward the date of the country’s next presidential election, which is scheduled for 2020. …

Paris’ deadliest fire in over a decade claimed 10 lives, sending fleeing residents to the roof to escape the flames that engulfed their apartment building before dawn Tuesday. A 40-year-old female resident, said to have a history of psychiatric problems, was detained near the eight-story building in the quiet neighborhood as police opened an investigation …

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President Donald Trump will enjoy the backdrop of a mostly solid economy as he delivers his second State of the Union address Tuesday night, though questions about its sustainability linger. Trump will likely tout the latest signs of strength: Friday’s jobs report showed that employers added the most jobs in January in nearly a year. …

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Earth’s north magnetic pole has been drifting so fast in the last few decades that scientists say that past estimates are no longer accurate enough for precise navigation. …

Mourners gathered by the blackened remains of a family home in which five girls perished in the Kazakh capital, Astana, after a tragic house fire. …

White House officials are expressing anger after an insider leaked months of President Donald Trump’s private schedules.        The release of the information is a “disgraceful breach of trust,” according to Madeleine Westerhout, the director of Oval Office operations. In a tweet, Westerhout said what the documents do not show “are the hundreds …

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The U.S. government is preparing to begin construction of more border walls and fencing in South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, likely on federally owned land set aside as wildlife refuge property.   Heavy construction equipment is supposed to arrive starting Monday. A photo posted by the nonprofit National Butterfly Center shows an excavator parked next …

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“She had so much to offer.” Ian Russell is speaking of his 14-year-old daughter Molly, the youngest of three sisters, who committed suicide in 2017, leaving a note that read, “I am sorry. I did this because of me.” After Molly’s suicide, her parents examined the teenager’s social media use and discovered she was interacting …

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Kurdish fighters in northern Syria have apparently detained a close associate of a fugitive Tajik police colonel who joined the extremist group Islamic State (IS) in 2015. …

A fire in the Kazakh capital, Astana, has killed five children from a single family, officials say. …

A house fire in the Kazakh capital, Astana, killed five children from a single family. Officials said on February 4 that flames engulfed the house overnight, killing five girls aged between three months and 13 years. Emergency service officials told RFE/RL that the girls’ parents were at work at the time. The cause of the …

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Turkey has maintained low-level contact with the Syrian government, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, even though Ankara has supported rebels who fought for years to topple President Bashar Assad. Erdogan has described Assad as a terrorist and said several times during Syria’s eight-year conflict that the Syrian leader must go. But with support …

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