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Soccer’s international governing body says it has initiated an investigation into reports of apparent politically tinged celebrations by two ethnic-Albanian members of Switzerland’s World Cup squad. …
Turks are heading to the polls on June 24 in presidential and parliamentary elections that could either solidify President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s power or reveal new signs of weakness after more than 15 years of increasingly authoritarian rule. …
Venezuela is in a deep economic and political crisis, with thousands of people fleeing the country to find a better life for their family. More than 1 million have left, and experts estimate this number will continue to grow. VOA reporter Celia Mendoza went to the Simon Bolivar Bridge between Venezuela and Colombia to hear …
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Kim Jong-pil, the founder of South Korea’s spy agency whose political skills helped him also serve twice as prime minister, first under his dictator boss and later under a man his agency kidnapped, has died. He was 92. Kim was declared dead on arrival at Seoul’s Soonchunhyang University Hospital from his home Saturday, said …
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The U.S. military will face a difficult task in identifying the remains of soldiers missing from the Korean War as the Pentagon prepares to receive them from North Korea in coming days, officials and experts said. U.S. President Donald Trump, who met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at an historic summit in Singapore …
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Argentina on June 22 said it has asked Russia to detain and deport four of its soccer fans filmed fighting with Croatian fans at a World Cup match. …
The United States has warned Russia to rein in its ally Syria after reports that government forces have stepped up attacks on rebels in an area of southwest Syria that was designated as a “de-escalation zone” last year. …
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov on June 22 honored Egypt’s star soccer player Mohamed Salah at a banquet in Grozny for Egypt’s World Cup soccer team. …
Even as fans from across the world celebrate the football World Cup in Russia, cease-fire monitors just over the border in eastern Ukraine say there has been a significant uptick in violence in recent days, including the use of heavy weapons and surface-to-air missiles. “Last week for instance we have seen over 7,400 cease-fire violations …
The Kazakh Consulate in the northern Iranian city of Gorgan has said Kazakh filmmaker Qanat Beisekeev was detained by the Iranian authorities on suspicion of a “violation of visa regulations.” …
Russia is “determined” to continue working to improve security on the Korean Peninsula, President Vladimir Putin has said during a meeting in Moscow with South Korean President Moon Jae-in. …
Moscow has charged that the United States and its allies fabricated evidence to implicate Syrian government forces in chemical-weapons attacks against civilians. …
A migrant mother from Guatemala and her seven-year-old son were reunited early Friday after being separated a month ago at the U.S. border. Beata Mariana de Jesus Mejia-Mejia and her son Darwin were rejoined at Baltimore-Washington International Airport in Maryland. A day earlier, the Justice Department agreed to release Darwin after his mother sued in …
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Even as hundreds of thousands of fans celebrate the football World Cup in Russia, ceasefire monitors just over the border in eastern Ukraine say there has been a significant uptick in violence in recent days, including the use of heavy weapons. Russia’s President Putin spoke on the phone Thursday to his Ukrainian counterpart. And as …
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U.S. President Donald Trump says he is considering a meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in July. …
For years, residents of Mogadishu wanting to watch the World Cup on TV have done so at risk to life and limb. Islamist militant group al-Shabab — an opponent of both sports and entertainment in general — threatened violence against anyone watching the games. The danger was especially high in 2010, when al-Shabab fighters controlled …
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Hymns sung to the Greek gods thousands of years ago resonated from ancient musical instruments in Athens on Thursday, transporting a transfixed audience to antiquity. The phorminx, the kitharis, the krotala and the aulos — string and wind instruments reconstructed by musical group Lyravlos — echoed among marble statues in Athens’s National Archaeological Museum as …
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that North Korea was blowing up four of its big test sites and that a process of “total denuclearization … has already started taking place.” Speaking at a meeting of his Cabinet at the White House, Trump said: “They’ve stopped the sending of missiles, including ballistic missiles. They’re …
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said solutions were “urgently needed” to challenge “Iran’s aggressive tendencies” in the Middle East. Merkel made the comments at a news conference on June 21 in Jordan’s capital, Amman, alongside King Abdullah II. …
Iran’s soccer team suffered a defeat on June 20, but women in the country still had reason to celebrate after they were allowed to attend a sporting event at a stadium for the first time in nearly 40 years. …
The Syrian government is deploying its military forces in southern Syria, in preparation for a looming offensive against the southern governorates of Daraa and Quneitra, as confrontation in the north and northeast are winding down. Abdulllah Nassar, a member of the White Helmets in Daraa, told VOA that people are bracing themselves for the offensive. …
A 22-year-old man from New York has pleaded guilty of attempting to provide material support to Islamic State. Parveg Ahmed was arrested after flying from the United States to Saudi Arabia last year and then attempting to cross into Syria. But he was stopped before he could complete his mission. Law enforcement officials searched Ahmed’s …
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar met Wednesday for their first face-to-face meeting in two years. The meeting in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, comes amid efforts to end the world’s youngest country’s nearly five-year civil war, which has killed tens of thousands of people and forced about 4 million to flee …
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WASHINGTON — Russia was emboldened by the lack of a decisive response by President Barack Obama’s administration during the 2016 presidential election and will seek to interfere in future elections, a former top U.S. official said. Victoria Nuland, whose portfolio at the State Department made her a leading Russia official under Obama, made the comments …
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