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Heading into the midterm elections, the most volatile candidate this year isn’t on the ballot. But President Donald Trump still loves to take his freewheeling political stylings on the road on behalf of his fellow Republicans and he’s raring to go for the sprint to Nov. 6. His eagerness to campaign for candidates …
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Japanese news media are reporting that the country’s major oil wholesalers are preparing to suspend crude imports next month. …
Prominent Ukrainian historian Mykola Shityuk has been found dead in his home city of Mykolaiv, police said on September 2. …
U.S. Army General Scott Miller has begun his duties as the new commander of NATO’s Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan. Miller took over from his predecessor, U.S. Army General John Nicholson, in a ceremony on September 2 in Kabul. “We must ensure terrorists can never use Afghanistan as a safe haven to threaten the world,” …
Germany’s foreign minister told his fellow countrymen Sunday they’re too lazy when it comes to battling racism and fighting for democracy. “We have to get off the couch and open the mouth,” Heiko Maas said in an interview with weekly Bild am Sonntag. “Our generation was given freedom, rule of law and democracy as …
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The International Organization for Migration reports more than 270 Nigerian migrants who recently returned from Libya have completed a skills training course to help them start their own businesses. Migrants attending this weeklong event in the Nigerian capital Lagos have shared stories of the business frustrations that drove them to try to go to Europe …
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An electrical fault caused a series of loud blasts early on Sunday near a military airbase outside the Syrian capital Damascus, a Syrian military source cited by state media and an Iranian official said. An official in the regional alliance backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and a Britain-based war monitor had earlier attributed the blasts …
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U.S. Army General Scott Miller has assumed command of NATO forces in Afghanistan as Washington faces growing questions over its strategy to force the Taliban into peace talks with the Western-backed government in Kabul. …
Government authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo say 250 schools in North Kivu and Ituri provinces will open their doors to more than 82,500 children when the new school year begins Monday. These areas are the epicenter of the latest Ebola epidemic in DRC. The Ebola virus is extremely contagious. It can spread …
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for closer ties with Kyrgyzstan during a two-day official visit to the Central Asian nation. …
An Iranian actor is taking on the censors over what women may say and do on state TV, challenging his peers to share their own encounters with censorship. …
Saturday ceremonies in Washington for late Senator John McCain …
Three former presidents, members of Congress, current and former world leaders as well as family and friends gathered on September 1 for a memorial service for John McCain at the Washington National Cathedral. …
No one knows what will happen in the next 48 hours in Chemnitz, the Saxon town which this week saw the worst rioting in Germany in three decades, with mobs of far-right supporters and soccer hooligans overwhelming local police and beating anyone in the streets who appeared to be a foreigner while flashing illegal Nazi …
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Russia is in talks with Eritrea to set up a logistics center at one of the North African country’s seaports, Russian news agencies cited Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on August 31. …
A Dutch lawmaker, who was planning to hold a caricature contest of Islam’s prophet, has backed away from his plans amid fears of violence. Geert Wilders, a member of the Dutch Party of Freedom, the second-largest political party in the Netherlands, announced his decision Thursday in a written statement. “To avoid the risk of …
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The Trump administration has cut funding to the U.N. agency that helps Palestinian refugees, calling the organization “irredeemably flawed.” The U.S. State Department ended decades of support to the organization Friday, saying “the administration has carefully reviewed the issue and determined that the United States will not make additional contributions to UNRWA (United Nations Relief …
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Residents of Mosul’s Old City are concerned about the education of their children ahead of the new school year as most classrooms in the district remain in ruins in the wake of the war against the Islamic State group. VOA’s Kawa Omar spoke to some residents in Mosul. …
Aleksandr Zakharchenko, who died in a bomb blast at a Donetsk cafe, was the pivotal leader in the Russia-backed insurgency in eastern Ukraine. But he was never more than a figurehead, not fully trusted in Moscow and despised in Kyiv. …
Paddy Ashdown, the former high representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina, says a proposed remaking of the border between Kosovo and Serbia along ethnic lines is a bad idea that could result in borders being redrawn all over the Balkans and used to justify land seizures in Ukraine. …
International students around the United States are learning about American college life in a special orientation week before classes start. Esha Sarai went to Rice University in Houston, Texas, to speak with some international students about their experience. …
U.S. President Donald Trump has stepped up his attacks on law enforcement agencies, warning that he may have to “get involved” in decisions amid “disgraceful” investigations being carried out by the Justice Department and FBI. …
Thousands of mourners have come to pay their respects to music legend Aretha Franklin, who will be laid to rest Friday in Detroit, Michigan. A star-studded roster of performers and speakers are scheduled to attend. From Washington, VOA’s Jill Craig has more. …
A piece of bone from a cave in Russia has yielded what may be the biggest archaeological find of the year, media reported on August 30. …