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Dozens of Georgians danced to the sounds of electronic music in downtown Tbilisi on May 13 in a protest against overnight drug raid against two popular music clubs in the capital. Critics describe the police crackdown as a PR stunt aimed against the growing club scene in Tbilisi. (RFE/RL’s Georgian Service) …
Less than half of Iraq’s eligible population voted in national elections, according to official tallies of the first national poll since defeating Islamic State. Iraq’s electoral commission said that results of the election to fill the country’s 329-seat parliament are expected within two days. Officials said that just 44 percent of eligible voters cast ballots …
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Hundreds protested in Moscow on May 13 against government attempts to curtail Internet freedom after authorities blocked the Telegram messaging service last month. A broad spectrum of political organizations joined the rally. Police detained at least 20 participants. (Current Time) …
Uzbek authorities have ordered that the homes of some 2,000 people in central Andijon be demolished to make way for new apartment blocks, with those evicted saying the tiny houses they’ve been promised are insufficient compensation. It’s a scenario that has been repeated across Uzbekistan since a 2013 government decree. …
NASA is planning to send a tiny autonomous helicopter to Mars on its next rover mission to the red planet. The space agency announced Friday that the helicopter will be carried aboard the Mars 2020 rover as a technology demonstration to test its ability to serve as a scout and to reach locations not accessible …
The Eurovision song contest has concluded for 2018, with the top prize going to Israel’s Netta Barzilai and her quirky girl-power song Toy. The Eurovision contest is an international tradition pitting performers from 43 nations against each other and decided by viewers all over the world. Along with European nations, Australia and Israel are allowed to …
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House Speaker Paul Ryan said Saturday that he thought President Donald Trump would be an asset to GOP candidates this fall in states like Wisconsin that he narrowly won, even as he warned fellow Republicans that a “blue wave” could wipe out advancements made during his presidency. Ryan addressed about 600 people at the Wisconsin …
Israel has won the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest, beating out second-place Cyprus and third-place Austria at the annual pop-song festival seen by tens of millions of viewers around the world. …
French authorities have opened a terror investigation into a knife attack in central Paris that killed one person in addition to the assailant and wounded four others. …
Pakistan has barred a U.S. diplomat involved in a fatal road accident from leaving the country, security officials and local media said on May 12. …
Malaysia’s Immigration Department said Saturday that former Prime Minister Najib Razak and his wife are barred from leaving the country, shortly after he announced plans for a short holiday. A leaked flight manifesto shows Najib and his wife, Rosmah Mansor, were scheduled to leave on a private jet Saturday to Jakarta, fueling rumors he was …
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The Everett House, which serves as the Turkish ambassador’s residence, is a Washington landmark. It is also famous as the one-time home of the Ertegun family, the brothers who would go on to found Atlantic records and change the sound of American jazz and pop music. But the Erteguns also played a role in Washington …
Aardvarks are not the most attractive animals. They have rabbitlike ears, a kangaroo tail and a nose like a pig. But they are mammals, and that means they feed their babies milk. At the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio, an aardvark mother is contributing to the largest collection of exotic animal milk in the world. As …
European nations are moving to protect their companies from a resumption of stiff U.S. sanctions on firms doing business in Iran, in a critical part of their bid to keep the Iranian nuclear deal alive and ensure it continues to benefit Iran’s economy. …
The Kremlin said on May 11 that a suggestion by Chechen lawmakers to change the constitution to allow President Vladimir Putin to serve another presidential term when his current term ends in 2024 is not on Putin’s agenda. …
Russia has denied a visa request to report on next month’s soccer World Cup events from a German investigative journalist who broke the Russian doping scandal story. …
Malaysia’s newly installed prime minister says he is ready to make good on a campaign promise to pardon opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim. Mahathir Mohamad said Friday, “We will begin the . . . proper process of obtaining a pardon for Datuk Sri Anwar,” using a Malay honorific. Mahathir said the king “has indicated he …
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Terrorism will be one of the major challenges facing Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sissi, who begins a new term in office next month after winning nearly 100 percent of the vote in February’s election. In some quarters, however, Sissi’s war on terror is described as a “heavy-handed” approach by security forces. “I would actually take …
The World Health Organization said Friday it is preparing for “the worst case scenario” for an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. WHO said Thursday that between April 4 and May 5, twenty-seven cases of fever with hemorrhagic signs, including 17 deaths, were reported in the DRC’s Bikoro district. WHO says two of …
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on May 11 that the U.S. decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal undermines confidence in the global order. …
A Moscow court opened a hearing in a case against Aleksei Navalny over nationwide protests but swiftly rescheduled it for May 15, prompting sardonic criticism from the opposition politician. …
The leader of the U.S. Central Command says the Taliban in Afghanistan “cannot win militarily” despite an uptick in attacks launched by the militants. …
Chilean bishops are arriving in Rome ahead of an expected brow-beating next week from Pope Francis, who says he was misled about a bishop at the center of the Chilean church’s sex abuse scandal. One top-ranked churchman is apparently not coming: Cardinal Javier Errazuriz, retired archbishop of Santiago, who sits on Francis’ kitchen cabinet. Abuse …
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