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Much like the rest of the world, Muslims in America are in the midst of the holy month of Ramadan — praying, fasting, giving to charity and breaking their monthlong fast every day at sunset. But as VOA’s Urdu, Kurdish and Turkish services reports, Muslims get together to enjoy the holy month in different ways. …
Health experts are dispatching an experimental vaccine in areas of The Democratic Republic of the Congo that are considered ground zero in the fight against Ebola. Their hope is to try to combat the outbreak from the onset. The crucial test is providing hope, in times of uncertainty. VOA’s Julie Taboh has more. …
Judging by the size of the crowd and the number of exhibitors at the fourth annual Consumer Electronics Show Asia, which opened Wednesday in Shanghai, China is well on its way toward catching up with the United States in consumer technology. A mirror image of the older and bigger sister show in Las Vegas, CES …
The banned nerve agent sarin and chlorine were used in two more attacks in Syria last year, the global chemical-weapons watchdog has said. …
The White House is moving to defend U.S. President Donald Trump’s deal allowing the Chinese telecom giant ZTE to stay in business despite violating sanctions against Iran and North Korea. …
U.S. and British intelligence officials are warning soccer fans traveling to Russia for the World Cup that their cell phones and computers could be hacked by cyberspies. …
Statue of unknown bitcoin founder would first be visible through a mobile app. …
As the trade dispute escalates between the United States and its global trading partners, American bourbon whiskey is among the U.S. exports in the crosshairs. It will soon be subject to a 25 percent tariff imposed by a growing number of countries as a retaliatory measure for U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum. As VOA’s …
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Distilling spirits is in Paul Hletko’s DNA. “Prior to World War II, my grandfather’s family owned what is now a major brewery in the Czech Republic,” he told VOA. But his grandfather’s Jewish family lost more than a brewery when the Nazis took over Europe during the war. “The whole family got taken to the …
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Shares of embattled Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE plunged more than 40 percent Wednesday, its first day of trading after agreeing to pay a $1 billion fine to the United States for violating trade sanctions. ZTE nearly went under after the Trump administration imposed a seven-year ban on the company from buying crucial software and hardware …
The top Kyrgyz and Uzbek defense officials have met to discuss cooperation for the first time since the two Central Asian countries gained independence when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. …
A senior Russian lawmaker overseeing family-related issues has some advice for fellow Russian women during the World Cup: Don’t have sex with foreign men. …
A look at the best news photos from around the world. …
The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the congress of soccer’s world governing body in Moscow on June 13 that is set to elect the host of the 2026 World Cup. …
The leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban, Hibatullah Akhundzada, renewed his call Tuesday for direct talks with the United States to end the war, dashing renewed hopes the insurgent group might be mulling to engage in a peace dialogue with the Kabul government. In his “message of felicitation” on the occasion of Eid ul Fitr festival, which …
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Uzbek businessmen who fled Kyrgyzstan in the wake of violence eight years ago want the new Kyrgyz president to review related prison sentences and property losses. Is this the right time? (The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL.) …
Major leaders across Asia and the world mostly voiced approval for Tuesday’s agreement between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to push toward ending Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program, even as South Korea and others adopted a more cautious stance. South Korean President Moon Jae-in said he told Trump in a …
Read more “World Leaders Mostly Voice Approval of Trump-Kim Agreement”
Western powers have warned that Russia could attack deep-sea cables that form what is known as the “backbone of the global Internet,” though some experts suggest the threat may be overblown. …
Irene Mboyo Mola spent 11 days caring for her husband as he died of Ebola in a hospital where she said nurses were too scared to get close. She helped him to the bathroom, picked up his feverish body when he lost his balance, and reinserted an IV that fell out of his bleeding arm. …
Read more “Test of Ebola Vaccine Raises Hopes, Doubts in Congo”
Japan has lodged a protest against Russia’s plan to lay fiber-optic cables to disputed islands that lay between the two countries, calling the construction work illegal and “extremely deplorable.” …
Germany and France are voicing cautious optimism that Russia and Ukraine will take steps to revive the long-stalled cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, but said no agreement was reached on deploying a UN peacekeeping mission there. …
Keeping healthy could become more costly as climate change and water scarcity cause a huge drop in the global production of vegetables and legumes, scientists said Monday. The amount of vegetables produced could fall by more than a third, especially in hot regions like southern Europe and swaths of Africa and South Asia, said researchers …
Read more “Climate Change May Boost Cost of Eating Your Greens”
Top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow suffered a heart attack and is being treated at a Washington area hospital, President Donald Trump said in a tweet. “Our Great Larry Kudlow, who has been working so hard on trade and the economy, has just suffered a heart attack. He is now in Walter Reed Medical …
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Spain says it will give “safe harbor” to a migrant rescue ship stranded in the Mediterranean to help avoid a “humanitarian catastrophe,” after Italy and Malta both refused to let the ship dock. …