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China is denying reports that it plans to deploy troops or establish a military base in Afghanistan, saying it is merely engaged in “normal military and security cooperation” with its neighbor. …
As Indonesia’s health ministry undertakes a huge campaign to immunize 70 million children against rubella and measles, critics say those efforts have been complicated by an edict issued by the country’s top Muslim clerical body, Indonesian Ulema Council, declaring some of the vaccine’s ingredients as forbidden by Islam. While the quasi-governmental body’s edict, a fatwa, …
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The head of the Slovak branch of a Russian motorcycle club known for its allegiance to the Kremlin has been fined a hefty amount for storing decommissioned military equipment, including a tank, on a former military base, Slovak media report. …
Italy, China, and Spain lead the way when it comes to the number of UNESCO* cultural and national heritage sites. …
Environmentalists are alarmed that President Donald Trump is following through on his campaign pledges to roll back Obama-era rules that tightened restrictions on greenhouse gases, promising the moves would lead to more American jobs and economic growth. At a recent rally in Charleston, West Virginia, under a “Trump Digs Coal” banner, the president announced plans …
Read more “Trump’s Environmental Policy Roll-back Alarms Activists”
Russia says it will launch major naval maneuvers in the Mediterranean Sea later this week, amid growing tensions between Moscow and the West over Syria. …
President Donald Trump has followed through on pledges to roll-back Obama-era rules that tightened restrictions on greenhouse gases, promising the moves would lead to more American jobs and economic growth. Trump’s proposal includes loosening restrictions to the American Clean Cars Standards and the Clean Power Plan. White House Correspondent Patsy Widakuswara has more. …
Express fitness is gaining popularity in the United States as people try to squeeze exercise into their hectic schedules. To accommodate them, gyms are offering more total body workouts in a compressed period of time. VOA’s Jill Craig has more. …
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday again defended the widely criticized original investigation of the 2014 disappearance of 43 students, an apparent massacre that shook confidence in his government. In a short video released via Twitter, Pena Nieto said he remained convinced that the students from the teachers college at Ayotzinapa were killed by …
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Outspoken Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza will be a pallbearer for John McCain when the coffin of the late Republican senator is carried at Washington’s National Cathedral. …
Olympics officials say they will give medal upgrades to two Russian runners who have served bans after testing positive for doping. …
The United States has accused Russia of breaking World Trade Organization rules by imposing tariffs in retaliation for U.S. duties that targeted Russian steel and aluminum. …
A state at the center of the Venezuelan migrant crisis had the highest homicide rate in Brazil in the first six months of the year, according to data published Tuesday. Between January and June, there were 27.7 homicides for every 100,000 people in Roraima, a poor state in northern Brazil, data from the Violence Monitor …
Read more “Brazil State Flooded with Venezuelans Sees Spike in Killings”
President Donald Trump’s administration backed off on Tuesday on plans to bypass Congress and roll back billions of dollars from the U.S. foreign aid budget after lawmakers pushed back, senators, congressional aides and U.S. officials said. Reuters reported on Aug. 16 that the White House Office of Management and Budget had asked the State Department …
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When farmer Julimar Pansera purchased land in Brazil’s interior seven years ago, it was blanketed in tiers of fruit trees, twisted shrubs and the occasional palm standing tall in a thicket of undergrowth. He mowed down most of that vegetation, set it ablaze and started planting soybeans. Over the past decade, he and others in …
Read more “Appetite for Destruction: Soy Boom Devours Brazil’s Tropical Savanna”
WASHINGTON — U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis rebuffed suggestions that private military forces could join the fight in Afghanistan, and possibly replace regular U.S. troops. Mattis made the comments at a Pentagon press briefing August 28, where he was asked about such proposals that have been floated in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. “When Americans …
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Russia suggested a Syrian rebel group was preparing to use chemical weapons amid a looming battle in Syria’s northern Idlib region. …
Russia has formally moved to restrict the activities of Pacific Environment, labeling the longtime U.S.-based environmental and advocacy group an “undesirable organization.” …
A group of current and former U.S. officials from across the political spectrum is set to take part in Saturday’s memorial service for Senator John McCain, one of the last in a string of services honoring the longtime lawmaker who died Saturday at the age of 81. The service at the National Cathedral in Washington …
Read more “As Tributes for McCain Pour in, Trump Reaction Criticized”
Iranian President Hassan Rohani was called before Tehran’s parliament on August 28 for a grilling over the country’s economic crisis. …
The death of Senator John McCain after a year-long battle with brain cancer has drawn an outpouring of condolences from every corner of the globe, some of the most poignant and diverse of which came from southeastern Europe, where the Arizona Republican’s unique brand of personal diplomacy forged bonds with democratic leaders and irritated illiberal …
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As relations between the United States and Turkey have soured in recent months, Ankara has stepped up its pursuit of better relations and increased trade with Europe and Russia. …
In Turkey, a group known as the “Saturday Mothers” marked the 700th week of gathering in Istanbul to protest the forced disappearances and political murders in Turkey during the military coup-era of 1980s and the Kurdish-Turkish conflict of the 1990s. But as Dorian Jones reports, Turkish authorities broke up the vigil Saturday. …