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A Salvadoran woman whose unexpected recovery from a life-threatening condition was deemed a miracle, paving the way for the upcoming canonization of the late Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero, said Friday she’s convinced he is a saint. Speaking days before a planned pilgrimage to the Vatican along with her husband and thousands of others, Cecilia …
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VOA’s Greta Van Susteren interviews Hayvi Bouzo, Washington bureau chief of Orient TV, on the ground during a high-level week at the United Nations General Assembly. Hayvi, who is Kurdish-Syrian, tells us about her experiences attempting to cover the news in Syria and how she had to flee the country shortly after the revolution. She …
VOA’s Greta Van Susteren interviews Pantho Rahaman, who traveled to the U.S. from Bangladesh to cover the United Nations General Assembly’s high-level week. Pantho and Greta go in-depth on the impact of the Rohingya refugee crisis on Bangladesh, the importance of human rights for the Rohingya people and Bangladeshi feelings toward the government of Myanmar. …
A weekend general election in Bosnia is being shadowed by protests attended by tens of thousands in Bosnia’s two largest cities and organized by a pair of fathers demanding the truth about the alleged murders of their sons. …
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince in an interview with Bloomberg News is insisting that the kingdom is fulfilling promises to the United States to make up a shortfall in world oil supplies resulting from the loss of Iranian production under U.S. sanctions. …
Russia is augmenting its underwater battle capabilities in a direct challenge to U.S. and NATO forces in the Atlantic and Mediterranean arenas, a top U.S. admiral has warned. …
After a year that saw the #MeToo movement sweep America, sexual harassment remains a global problem. Nearly 1 in 4 men across eight countries believe they are owed sex from their employees and that it’s sometimes OK to expect a worker to have intimate interactions with the boss’s family member or friend. That’s according to …
Melania Trump continued her tour of Africa in Kenya Friday, highlighting animal conservation efforts. The U.S. first lady visited Nairobi National Park to learn about steps the east African nation is taking to conserve elephants and rhinos and participated in a baby elephant feeding. She also went on a quick safari. Later in the day, …
It was one year ago that the New York Times broke the story detailing Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual harassment and abuse of women who worked for him. Since then, a chorus of women from all walks of life has chimed in with personal stories of harassment and assault – a movement that became …
India has signed a $5 billion deal with Russia to buy S-400 air-defense systems. …
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and French President Emmanuel Macron have led a memorial service for famed French-Armenian singer and songwriter Charles Aznavour in Paris. …
Trust in Russian President Vladimir Putin has dropped to its lowest point since 2012, after he signed a controversial law on pension reform. …
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Tens of thousands of people throughout the world will pursue their American dreams this month, now that the State Department has opened the annual green card lottery, also known as the diversity lottery. The State Department said Tuesday that it was opening the visa lottery, making 50,000 visas available for fiscal 2020 by random drawing. The …
Afghan military and police forces had higher numbers of battlefield casualties in a “difficult and bloody summer” of fighting the Taliban insurgency, the American general overseeing the war said Thursday. Army Gen. Joseph Votel, the commander of U.S. Central Command, told reporters at the Pentagon that the Afghan losses were “an area of important focus” …
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The U.S. defense secretary has again accused Russia of violating a key Cold War arms control treaty, calling the unresolved and increasingly tense dispute with Moscow “untenable.” …
Moldova’s parliament has overridden a veto by President Igor Dodon, passing legislation that will transfer the site of a former stadium in Chisinau to the United States for its new embassy. …
Dozens of ethnic Kazakhs originally from China appealed to Germany’s chancellor for help in seeking the release of relatives from so-called “reeducation camps” in northwestern China. …
British officials say the Russian military intelligence unit GRU is behind a fresh wave of global cyberattacks. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Thursday the GRU is responsible for “indiscriminate and reckless” attacks against political institutions, businesses, media and sports. Britain’s National Cyber Security Center has concluded that hackers behind numerous attacks have been identified as …
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U.S. and Georgian defense ministers met in Brussels Wednesday to reaffirm the long-standing defense relationship between the countries. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was in Brussels to reassure European allies of America’s “iron-clad” commitment to NATO, as the trans-Atlantic alliance prepares for its biggest military exercises since the Cold War. Meeting with Georgian Defense Minister Levan …
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President Donald Trump’s appearance Thursday at a rally in Rochester, Minnesota, marks his second stop to friendly territory in the otherwise traditionally blue state, where other Republicans in competitive congressional races aren’t as eager to receive him. Trump’s Minnesota visits aim to bolster GOP efforts in two of their top targeted Democratic districts, critical seats …
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Georgia will one day join the alliance, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said, 10 years after the Western military organization first promised the South Caucasus country it would become a member. …
Uzbekistan’s Prosecutor-General’s Office has denied a report that Gulnara Karimova, the imprisoned daughter of deceased former President Islam Karimov, had been freed from state custody and had checked into a luxury hotel in Dubai. …
A court in Russia-controlled Crimea has started to hear the appeal of a pro-Ukrainian activist against his five-year prison term. …