Category: World

Russian investigators have blamed human error for a plane crash outside Moscow earlier this year that killed all 71 people on board. …

The Russian ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina has indefinitely postponed a visit to Srebrenica after a local official turned down his request to visit the memorial complex where the victims of the 1995 massacre are buried. …

The United States is pushing countries to halt Iranian oil imports from early November, a senior State Department official said on June 26, warning that Washington will not grant any sanction waivers. …

Fresh protests are expected in Chisinau after Moldova’s Supreme Court on June 25 upheld a decision to invalidate the results of a mayoral election in the capital won by a pro-Western candidate. …

A Russian company accused of helping fund a propaganda operation to sway the 2016 U.S. presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor has asked a judge to dismiss the case brought against it by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. …

The United States needs to “up its game” in the Arctic, which is an increasingly important region as global warming opens up new sea lanes and makes oil and mineral resources there more readily available, the U.S. defense secretary said on June 25. …

The number of migrants dying from extreme heat on the U.S.-Mexico border rose 55 percent in the past nine months after an increase in unaccompanied children and families trying to enter the United States illegally, the U.S. government said on Monday. Heat-related deaths, the main cause of migrant fatalities on the U.S. southwest border, rose …

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Historic levels of violent crime in Mexico have sparked a record increase in the country’s car-armoring business, with an industry group predicting a double-digit jump in the number of vehicles bulletproofed this year. There were more than 25,000 murders across Mexico last year, the highest annual tally since modern records began, government data shows, with …

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Lawyers for Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former presidential campaign manager, said on Monday they plan to appeal a judge’s decision to jail Manafort while he awaits a criminal trial in Washington this fall. Judge Amy Berman Jackson in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia sided with prosecutors from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office …

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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says he expects the alliance to decide at a July 11-12 summit to officially launch membership talks with Macedonia. …

Melania Trump said Sunday that kindness, compassion and positivity are important traits in life.   The first lady helped SADD – Students Against Destructive Decisions – open its annual national conference at a hotel just outside Washington. The appearance followed her trip last week to the U.S.-Mexico border to see the effect on children of …

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America has waited a year to hear what special counsel Robert Mueller concludes about the 2016 election, meddling by the Russians and — most of all — what Donald Trump did or didn’t do. But how much the nation will learn about Mueller’s findings is very much an open question. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein …

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A Texas charitable organization says 32 immigrant parents separated from their children after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border were freed into its care, but they don’t know where their kids are or when they might see them again despite government assurances that family reunification would be well organized.   The release on Sunday is believed to …

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She fought for justice in her sister’s killing and earned a rare victory. But Iryna Nozdrovska’s own demise is a powerful symbol of deep and lasting failures in Ukraine. …

Belarusians continue to live under severe restrictions on freedom of assembly and other rights after nearly a quarter-century under President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, UN special rapporteur Miklos Haraszti has told RFE/RL. …

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Egypt has extended its state of emergency for another three months. President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s decision was published in the official gazette on Sunday. It should be approved by parliament within seven days and go into effect on July 14.   Egypt has been under a state of emergency, after an Islamic State affiliate bombed two …

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Hundreds of people gathered in the center of the Macedonian capital late on June 23 to protest against a landmark agreement with Greece to rename the country. …

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and his Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vucic, came together in the Belgian capital on June 24 for EU-mediated talks aimed at normalizing bilateral relations. …

Pakistan’s military says Afghanistan-based “terrorists” on Sunday ambushed one of its border fencing teams and killed a soldier. The fatal cross-border raid in the treacherous North Waziristan region also injured a junior officer, said army spokesman Major-General Asif Ghafoor. “Another son of soil sacrificed his life while making Pakistan-Afghanistan border safe and inaccessible for terrorists,” …

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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic received members of the Russian military’s famed Aleksandrov song-and-dance ensemble, also known as the Red Army Choir, on June 23 in Belgrade. The ensemble then performed outside the city’s St. Sava Church for an estimated 5,000 spectators. Serbia’s government subsidized the free concert with 18 million dinars ($177,000). …

A fresh wave of violence and repression left at least seven dead in Nicaragua as international criticism mounted against the government of President Daniel Ortega over its response to protests. The attacks began Friday evening, hours after the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights presented a report indicating the Nicaraguan government had violated human rights during …

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In an attempt to capitalize on what’s become a ratings bonanza for Arabic satellite channels during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, two comedies struck the wrong chord with audiences when their lead actors appeared in blackface.  Criticism was swift on social media, but failed to trigger a deeper discussion on racism in the Middle …

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A monitor group says Russian jets have struck rebel-held areas in southern Syria in the first such attacks since Moscow agreed to a cease-fire in July 2017, endangering one of the so-called “de-escalation” zones. …