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Georgia says it will sever diplomatic relations with Syria over its decision to recognize the breakaway Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent countries. …
Kyrgyz investigators have interrogated former Prime Minister Sapar Isakov for a third time over a power-plant accident that left many residents of Bishkek without heat for days last winter. …
A UN report says violence against Afghan women, including honor killings, often goes unpunished despite state efforts to prosecute such crimes. …
U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are to meet before a planned summit between Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, according to Japanese officials. Trump and Abe spoke Monday as American officials were in North Korea and Singapore to discuss arrangements for the prospective talks. The White House has …
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President Donald Trump paid tribute Monday — Memorial Day in the United States — to generations of the country’s fallen warriors. “Theirs was a love more deep and more pure than most will ever know,” Trump said at Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington. “They marched into hell so that Americans could know the blessings of peace. They died so …
The foreign ministers of Greece and Macedonia said in Brussels on May 28 that they have completed the main round of negotiations on the contentious issue over Macedonia’s name and are ready to hand the final stage over to the countries’ prime ministers. …
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A district court in the Russian city of Saratov has ruled that a local nongovernmental organization providing assistance to diabetics is a “foreign agent” and has imposed a fine of 300,000 rubles ($4,800). …
Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on May 28 that he has had talks with U.S. officials about permanently stationing U.S. troops in Poland as a deterrent against Russian aggression. …
British Prime Minister Theresa May will urge U.S. President Donald Trump to avoid protesters in central London during his UK visit in July and instead meet her at her country residence, the Sun newspaper reported on Sunday. The details of the plan will be given to the White House by Kim Darroch, British ambassador to …
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Leaders of a tribal executive board in Montana are asking U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke for help battling meth addiction in their community. The Billings Gazette reports that Zinke met with the executive board of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes on Sunday. Fort Peck Tribal Chairman Floyd Azure told Zinke that law enforcement …
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Brazil faced serious supply disruptions on the seventh day of a truckers’ strike Sunday, although the government said the country was “on a path to normalization.” Brazilian authorities have deployed the military to clear barricades erected by strikers and have been escorting fuel trucks since Friday to maintain access to refineries. But federal transportation police …
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French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says his country plans to intensify efforts to find a solution to the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. …
Two police officers and two militants were killed in a shootout in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, officials say. …
U.S. President Donald Trump says he sees “brilliant potential” in North Korea as he confirmed that a team from the United States had arrived in the North “to make arrangements for the summit.” …
Twenty-six-year-old Joshua Holt had been a prisoner in Venezuela since the summer of 2016, but on Saturday he told U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House that he was “overwhelmed with gratitude” for those who had worked for his release. Trump said Holt had been “incredibly brave.” Holt and his Venezuelan wife, Thamara Candelo, …
New shops appear in New York City every day, but Phluid Project, which recently opened its doors on Broadway, is different. One of the first gender-fluid boutiques in the world, Phluid Project sells clothing for men, women and everyone in between. Both the clothes and the mannequins here are gender-neutral, and as an added selling …
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Streams flowing in the south of England may hold clues to the search for life on Mars. VOA’s Steve Baragona has more. …
Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom says it has signed a protocol with the Turkish government on land-based part of the transit leg of the TurkStream gas pipeline. …
U.S. President Donald Trump says he is still looking at a June 12 summit date with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore, just days after the U.S. leader said he was canceling the historic meeting. …
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to accelerate efforts to seek a World War II peace treaty and to reach an agreement over a disputed island chain. …
The UN children’s fund warned the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo threatens the health and well-being of children, and special care must be taken to help them survive. Ebola is highly contagious, killing between 20 and 90 percent of its victims, and the UN children’s fund is engaging communities in the fight against …
Turkmen students abroad are going hungry and getting tossed from their homes and universities as their banks in Turkmenistan withhold cash. …
Turkmen journalist and RFE/RL contributor Saparmamed Nepeskuliev has been released after serving a three-year prison term on drugs charges that human rights groups and a UN panel denounced as politically motivated. …