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The UN envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura has called the last Syria peace talks of the year in Astana, a “missed opportunity” for the Syrian people, as talks in the Kazakh capital ended without results. …
The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) says as many as 23 civilians were killed in an air strike in the country’s south this week, according to its preliminary findings. …
The U.S. has accused Iran of stepping up violations of a UN ban on arms exports by increasingly supplying weapons to militant groups across the Middle East and continuing its missile program. …
India and Pakistan, two nuclear armed rivals in South Asia with a famously tumultuous relationship and several wars in their past, have decided to put aside their antagonism to help the Sikh community commemorate the 550th birth anniversary of Sikhism’s founder next year. The nations are creating a new fenced corridor from an Indian border …
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The U.S. Senate has advanced a resolution to stop American help to the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen. VOA’s Michael Bowman reports, Wednesday’s vote came despite pleas from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who met with the full Senate behind closed doors. …
Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, was nominated for U.S. speaker of the house Wednesday. If confirmed in January, she will not only be the first female speaker but also a woman who has held the post twice. VOA’s Zlatica Hoke reports Pelosi ran unopposed and won by a landslide, despite dissenters in her party …
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Twitter late on November 28 suspended an account that it said had been impersonating Russian President Vladimir Putin. …
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is calling on NATO to send ships to the Sea of Azov to help protect Ukraine after Russia seized three Ukrainian naval vessels and their crew off Crimea. …
U.S. President Donald Trump says he will not rule out pardoning his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, who this week became the renewed target of a special investigation into ties between Russia and his 2016 campaign. …
A Chinese researcher has publicly defended his claim he has created the world’s first genetically-edited babies. He Jiankui addressed a crowd of fellow scientists Wednesday at a biomedical conference in Hong Kong, two days after he posted a video online claiming to have used a gene-editing technology dubbed CRISPR to alter the DNA of twin …
Read more “Chinese Scientist Faces Firestorm Over Genetic Editing”
A New York congressman who is currently vying for a key leadership post in the Democratic Party has been hospitalized with a bacterial infection. U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney’s office says he has been dealing with a persistent infection that required his hospitalization on Monday in Manhattan. Maloney is asking for a delay in …
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Feeding a hungry planet is growing increasingly difficult as climate change and depletion of land and other resources undermine food systems, the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization said Wednesday as it renewed appeals for better policies and technologies to reach “zero hunger.” Population growth requires supplies of more nutritious food at affordable prices, but …
Read more “UN Report Says Fragile Climate Puts Food Security at Risk”
Russian President Vladimir Putin denigrated the dollar and hit out at U.S. sanctions against Moscow with a wry remark about his country’s efforts to decrease its reliance on the U.S. currency. …
Russia and Ukraine account for 75 percent of newly diagnosed HIV infections in Europe, reports say. …
Slovenia has become the only NATO country to appoint a woman as chief of its military. …
Clowns on stilts and trampoline artists entertained Britain’s Prince Harry on Tuesday when he visited a youth circus in Zambia which is supported by one of Queen Elizabeth’s charities. Harry spent the last of his two days in Zambia visiting World War Two veterans in the capital Lusaka before heading to Circus Zambia, a project …
Read more “Prince Harry Joins Circus in Zambian Youth Project”
“I think it ends when everyone’s dead,” the chubby 10-year-old wearing a Superman T-shirt says. His interjection prompts wry laughs and nervousness. One teenager responds, “I love that, that’s the realism, though, isn’t it?” Before making his appraisal of how an epidemic of stabbings and killings on London streets will end, the 10-year-old had been …
Read more “London’s Violent Streets: ‘I Think It Ends When Everyone’s Dead’”
A Chinese researcher’s surprise claim that he is the first person in the world to successfully edit the genes of a pair of recently born twin girls, making them resistant to HIV, the AIDS virus, has been met with criticism, scorn and denial in China. Provincial health authorities in the southern province of Guangdong …
Read more “China Launches Probe Into ‘First’ Gene-Edited Babies”
Human rights activists in Serbia have launched a crowdfunding campaign to pay for a $4,400 fine they were given after protesting against a convicted war criminal. …
The Ukrainian parliament has voted to impose martial law for 30 days after Russian forces fired on Ukrainian ships and seized 24 sailors in the Black Sea off the coast of the Russian-controlled Crimean Peninsula. RFE/RL asked people in the Ukrainian cities of Odesa and Kramatorsk on November 27 what they think about the introduction …
Read more “Vox Pop: What Ukrainians Think About Martial Law”
A billionaire former prime minister isn’t in Georgia’s presidential runoff on November 28, but you could have fooled some people. …
Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort lied to the FBI and special counsel investigators after pleading guilty to federal charges, breaching his plea agreement, according to a court filing on Monday. Manafort said in the same filing he disagreed with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s assertion that he lied to investigators. Both the special counsel …
Read more “Special Counsel: Ex-Trump Campaign Chairman Manafort Lied to FBI”
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday the agreement allowing the United Kingdom to leave the European Union may make trade between Washington and London more difficult, but the UK prime minister’s office disputed his interpretation. Trump told reporters outside the White House that the deal sounded like it would be good for the European …
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The United Nations on Monday announced $9.2 million in health and nutritional aid for crisis-stricken Venezuela, where hunger and preventable disease are soaring amid the collapse of the country’s socialist economic system. It is the first U.N. emergency funding for the government of President Nicolas Maduro, which blames the country’s economic problems on U.S. financial …
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