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A human rights group is urging Bangladesh to reconsider its plans to move Rohingya refugees to a small, uninhabited island. Human Rights Watch said in a report issued Monday that the mangrove-and-grass island of Bhasan Char has been “formed only in the last 20 years by silt from Bangladesh’s Meghna River.” In the 68-page report — …
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Chinese military vessels are now patrolling the Northern Atlantic, and Russian submarines are prowling those same waters at a pace not seen since the end of the Cold War, the Navy’s top admiral told VOA in an exclusive interview. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson called China’s military presence in the North Atlantic a …
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Officials in Ethiopia’s Somali region say 29 people were killed as a result of violence Saturday in the regional capital, Jigjiga. Khadar Abdi Ismail, a senior official with the region’s ruling Ethiopian Somali People’s Democratic Party told VOA Somali he blames federal government forces for the deaths. Soldiers were deployed Friday in Jigjiga after an …
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At least six people were killed and 13 others were wounded in two bombings in Somalia on Sunday, ambulance services and officials said. The deadliest blast occurred in the capital, Mogadishu, where at four people were killed in a car bombing outside a coffee shop on the capital’s busiest road. Dr Abdulkadir Abdirahman Aden of …
Five new passenger planes arrived in Iran from a French-Italian manufacturer on August 4. The twin-engine ATR 72-600 turboprops landed in the northwestern city of Orumiyeh a day before the United States starts reimplementing sanctions that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal. (IRINN via AP) …
Croatian leaders have celebrated a victorious military operation at the end of the country’s 1991-95 war for independence, while Serbia’s president accused Croatia of intentionally expelling Serbs from the country because of their ethnicity. …
Rallies against the government continued for a fifth consecutive day in a number of Iranian cities on August 4. Protesters chanted “Death to the dictator” — in a reference to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — and other slogans condemning the self-styled theocratic rule in Iran. Iranians have shared videos from Tehran, Karaj, and …
President Donald Trump’s strategy of becoming aggressively involved in the midterm elections is prompting concern among some Republicans who worry he’s complicating the political calculus for GOP candidates trying to outrun his popularity. Those Republicans worry their statewide candidates may rise or fall based on Trump’s standing, muddling their path to maintain control of Congress. …
For years, public service announcements warned Israelis to save water: Take shorter showers. Plant resilient gardens. Conserve. Then Israel invested heavily in desalination technology and professed to have solved the problem by tapping into the abundant waters of the Mediterranean Sea. The once-ubiquitous conservation warnings vanished. Now, a five-year drought is challenging that strategy, as …
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Drones loaded with explosives detonated close to a military event where Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was giving a speech on Saturday, but he and top government officials alongside him escaped unharmed from what Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez called an “attack” targeting the leftist leader. Seven National Guard soldiers were injured, Rodriguez added. A broadcast by Maduro was cut short …
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama says NATO has decided to spend 50 million euros ($58 million) to modernize the country’s air base in Kucove …
North Korea’s foreign minister is scheduled to visit Iran on August 7, as both countries deal with stepped up political and financial pressure from the United States over their nuclear programs. …
A group of several dozen people attacked nine gay-rights activists in Armenia’s Syunik region, the Pink Armenia activist organization has reported. …
Shoes have long since stopped serving only their utilitarian purpose. Over the centuries, shoes have evolved not just to protect feet but also to declare their owners’ social status — and sometimes to be worn as treasured objects of art. To honor humanity’s sometimes pricey passion for shoes and trace the world’s history through footwear, …
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Hundreds of protesters returned to the streets of several Iranian cities on August 3, according to social media posts, amid growing anxiety over the country’s economic difficulties. …
A new era in American spaceflight was unveiled Friday, with NASA presenting the flight crews that will carry out the first test flights and operational missions aboard commercial spacecraft to be launched from U.S. soil for the first time since the space shuttle’s retirement in 2011. The test flights of the modules, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner …
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A Russian helicopter has crashed in Siberia, with reports saying at least 18 people were killed. …
Honeybees are essential to our food supply, but bee colonies around the world are declining. Among the main culprits are insecticides containing chemicals known as neonicotinoids, which are highly toxic to honeybees. In Europe, where about 80 percent of crops rely to some degree on insect pollination, the chemical is banned but exceptions allowed. Poland’s …
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The United Nations has confirmed Russia’s claim that UN peacekeepers have returned to a buffer zone on the border between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights for the first time in six years. …
A Crimean Tatar activist set himself on fire to protest a plan by Russia-imposed authorities to build a new apartment complex on Tatar land in the Crimean capital, Simferopol. Vatan Karabash doused himself with gasoline on August 3 and set himself alight. People nearby quickly extinguished the flames and Karabash did not appear to suffer …
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Three seasoned journalists were shot dead as they were investigating Russian military contractors and mining interests far beyond the country’s borders, while pension-reform plans put millions of people back home in a protest mood and exposed rifts in the ruling party. …
Government officials do not typically enjoy a positive reputation in Myanmar, and reform efforts have been sluggish since the country began moving toward democracy. Decades of rule by a military junta that did not regard itself as accountable to the general public have created a legacy of distrust. But successive governments since 2011 — the …
Read more “Capacity Issues Hinder Public Sector Reform in Myanmar”
It’s been in use for nearly 160 years and still holds 2,500 inmates. Kyiv’s Lukyanivska prison is notorious for overcrowding, crumbling infrastructure, and poor hygiene. …
Seventeen victims of abduction have been recognized by Japan, but abductions occurred across Asia. There are more than 800 missing people for whom abduction cannot be ruled out. …