Category: World

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A U.S. judge has sentenced a Turkish banking executive to 32 months in prison after his conviction for evading sanctions on Iran. …

U.S. President Donald Trump and Uzbekistan’s reformist leader, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, met Wednesday at the White House, with security in central Asia, the fight against terrorism, trade deals and human rights in Uzbekistan high on the agenda. Mirziyoyev, in power for 20 months after the death of his country’s long-time autocrat, Islam Karimov, is talking …

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The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee says it agrees with an assessment by the country’s intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election with the goal of hurting the candidacy of Democrat Hillary Clinton and to help Donald Trump. …

U.S. President Donald Trump met with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev at the White House in Washington on May 16. Mirziyoev, whom Trump described as “a highly respected man in his country and throughout,” said that the United States “has always supported us.” (AP) …

An international human rights group is urging people to write to Iran’s government to ask it to free a jailed Iranian teachers’ rights advocate who has been on a hunger strike for three weeks. London-based Amnesty International made the appeal in a Tuesday tweet linking to an online petition for the release of Esmail Abdi, …

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Another year in education and an extra kilometer of road for every 1,000 people could dramatically improve communities’ ability to withstand food crises, the United Nations has said. Last year, 124 million people in 51 countries faced crisis levels of hunger, mainly due to conflicts and climate disasters, and experts say the situation is getting …

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European and Iranian foreign ministers are working to salvage the nuclear deal, after President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the pact. European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said European and Iranian officials held talks to address various challenges — from maintaining and deepening economic, transport and financial relations, to protecting European companies …

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The Israeli and Palestinian envoys have engaged in a fierce exchange at the United Nations a day after dozens of Palestinians were killed in violence along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip. …

Almost a quarter of Armenians are tuning in to their new prime minister’s pioneering Facebook broadcasts. …

The United States has imposed sanctions on the governor of Iran’s central bank, accusing him of providing support for terrorist activities. …

Taliban insurgents have attacked Farah city, the capital of Farah Province in western Afghanistan, close to the Iranian border, killing and wounding dozens of security forces, Afghan officials say. …

A Japanese military-history buff who is in prison in Belarus on arms-smuggling charges will be released in days, his relatives say. …

Iran’s foreign minister arrives on May 15 in Brussels — the final stop of a global tour aimed at rallying support for a landmark 2015 nuclear between Tehran and six world powers in the wake of Washington’s withdrawal from the deal. …

More protests are expected Tuesday along the Gaza border following a day of clashes in which Israeli forces killed at least 58 Palestinians and wounded more than 2,700. Monday was the deadliest day of cross-border violence in Gaza since a 2014 war with Israel. The clashes happened as U.S. and Israeli officials celebrated the opening …

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Kenya has taken its first step into space with the launch Friday of a nano-satellite made at the University of Nairobi. Engineers involved in creating the cube-shaped space capsule described it as Kenya’s joining the space club, although much remains to be done to get the Kenya space program off the ground. Kenyans cheered as …

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The United States indirectly criticized China on Monday for shielding Myanmar from strong U.N. Security Council action over a military crackdown against mainly Rohingya Muslims that the U.S. and other countries have denounced as ethnic cleansing. U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley did not mention China by name, but China proposed substantial amendments to a British-drafted Security …

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A suicide bomb at a police station in the Indonesian city of Surabaya has injured at least 10 people so far. It comes just one day after three coordinated suicide bombings at three churches in the same city, and just six days after a 36-hour prison standoff in a Jakarta suburb where militant prisoners killed …

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Czech Foreign Minister Martin Stropnicky says he believes his country’s intelligence services benefited from being briefed six years ago by Sergei Skripal, the Russian former double agent who was poisoned with a nerve toxin along with his daughter in the southern English city of Salisbury on March 4. …

Czech Foreign Minister Martin Stropnicky defended his country’s decision to block the preparation of a joint European Union statement criticizing the relocation of the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Speaking to RFE/RL’s Ray Furlong on May 14, Stropnicky said the Czech Republic did not want to make a commitment not to …

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An Uzbek national has been found dead in a Kazakh prison after complaining to relatives about torture. …

Newly elected Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has placed the country’s attorney general on leave as he prepares to reopen a corruption probe involving state-owned investment fund 1MDB. Mahathir announced Monday that he is replacing Attorney General Apandi Ali with the country’s solicitor-general. Apandi cleared ousted Prime Minister Najib Razak in 2016 of any wrongdoing …

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The leader of Britain’s domestic spy agency is scheduled to deliver a speech Monday in Berlin to his European counterparts, the first speech ever made outside Britain by a serving MI5 chief. In the rare public address, Andrew Parker will say close cooperation among the European spy agencies is vital as they all face threats …

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U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that he is trying to find a way to let giant Chinese technology firm ZTE “to get back into business, fast” after the U.S. had barred the company from using American components. “Too many jobs in China lost,” Trump said in a Twitter comment days after ZTE announced it …

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