Category: World

A court in Zimbabwe on Saturday ordered a U.S. citizen held in jail while she faces allegations of subversion and undermining the authority of President Robert Mugabe. The American, Martha O’Donovan, who works for a Zimbabwe online TV station, was arrested Friday after police converged on her house with a search warrant during a dawn …

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One of Afghanistan’s most powerful former warlords has called for the complete withdrawal of foreign forces and fresh presidential elections, in an interview with RFE/RL. …

The United States has ordered all non-essential employees of its mission to Somalia to leave the capital, Mogadishu, citing “specific threat information” against them. The statement issued Saturday by the U.S. State Department relates the threat information to Mogadishu International Airport, protected by African Union Troops and run by a Turkish firm. “Due to specific …

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Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has announced he is stepping down, saying he feared for his life. …

A Kremlin spokesman says there has been no cooperation so far between Russia and the United States on North Korea. …

The New York City Police Department said Friday that it had a credible narrative from an unidentified woman who has made a rape allegation against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and was gathering evidence for a possible arrest warrant. Reuters requests for comment from Weinstein’s representative and his attorney were not immediately answered. Robert Boyce, the …

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A parliamentary committee in Britain has asked Twitter for details of accounts linked to Russia, days after counterparts in the United States made similar requests of social media companies. …

Moscow has vowed to hit back at Canada after Ottawa announced financial sanctions and other restrictions on 30 Russians in connection with a whistleblowing Russian lawyer whose 2009 death and the crimes he uncovered have been a persistent thorn in the Kremlin’s side. …

A Spanish judge on Friday issued an international arrest warrant for Catalonia’s ousted president, a day after she jailed members of the region’s separatist government pending possible charges over last week’s declaration of independence. The national court judge issued the warrant for Carles Puigdemont in response to a request from state prosecutors. Puigdemont flew to …

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“What has the world turned in to?” a friend of the five Argentines killed in the New York attack this week asked at a news conference Friday, alongside three other surviving members of a group of former classmates. Guillermo Banchini, an architect, and friends were cycling in New York during a 30-year high school reunion …

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French President Emmanuel Macron has appealed to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for the Kremlin to use its influence to allow the establishment of humanitarian aid corridors in war-torn Syria. …

A Chinese official on Friday disputed President Donald Trump’s claim that the deadly opioid fentanyl flooding the U.S. is mostly produced in China. China doesn’t deny that some fentanyl produced illicitly inside the country is contributing to the epidemic, Wei Xiaojun, deputy director-general of the Narcotics Control Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, said …

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The United States is considering designating North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism, the White House national security adviser said Thursday, a move meant to put additional financial and diplomatic pressure on the totalitarian government. The State Department faces a congressionally mandated Thursday deadline to respond to several U.S. senators’ request that North Korea be …

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In the past 25 years, the world has made remarkable progress in saving the lives of young children, according to the latest report from the United Nations. In 1990, 35,000 children died every day; last year, 15,000 children and babies died daily, the first time that annual child deaths have fallen below the 6 million …

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British authorities have begun investigating whether Russia attempted to influence the British vote last year on leaving the European Union, media reported on November 2. …

The Islamic State extremist group on November 3 called the attacker accused of killing eight people in a truck rampage in New York a “soldier of the caliphate,” according to a U.S.-based extremist monitoring group. …

The United States and Russia are pushing competing plans at the United Nations to extend the work of a UN investigative body charged with determining who is responsible for chemical weapons attacks in Syria, media reported on November 2. …

U.S. President Donald Trump still thinks the Uzbek immigrant accused of running down eight people with a truck in New York City ought to get the death penalty, but is backing away from trying to send him to the U.S. detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Trump said Thursday he “would …

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Former Afghan warlord Ismail Khan called for the complete pullout of foreign troops, insisting only Afghans themselves can bring peace to their war-torn nation. He was speaking to RFE/RL’s Frud Bezhan in an exclusive interview in his residence in Herat, western Afghanistan. …

Karachais in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Karachayevo-Cherkesia have marked the 74th anniversary of their mass deportation to Central Asia by Soviet leader Josef Stalin. …

The CIA’s release of documents seized during the 2011 raid that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has again raised questions about Iran’s support of the extremist network leading up to the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.   U.S. intelligence officials and prosecutors have long said Iran formed loose ties to the terror organization from …

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Google is partnering with AutoNation, the country’s largest auto dealership chain, in its push to build a self-driving car. AutoNation said Thursday that its dealerships will provide maintenance and repairs for Waymo’s self-driving fleet of Chrysler Pacifica vehicles. The agreement will include additional models when Waymo brings them on line. Terms of the multi-year deal …

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Kyrgyz lawmakers have approved a resolution that transforms the Soviet-era October Revolution Day holiday into a two-day holiday called Days of History and Commemoration of Ancestors. …

A computer recovered in the 2011 U.S. military operation that killed Osama bin Laden contained a video collection that included kids’ cartoons, several Hollywood movies and three documentaries about himself. The list of the videos was included in the release Wednesday by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency of nearly 470,000 files found on the computer …

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