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Forget Brexit or a looming trans-Atlantic trade war. The diplomatic spat this week between Italy, Malta and France over who should take responsibility for more than 600 people rescued at sea shows that the biggest challenge Europe faces today is migration. It’s not about the hundreds of thousands of people who arrived across the Mediterranean …
Egypt announced Saturday steep increases in fuel and cooking gas prices as part of the country’s economic reforms and austerity measures designed to overhaul the country’s ailing economy. The new prices went into effect Saturday morning, the Ministry of Oil said in a statement. Prices for cooking gas increased from 60 to 100 pounds (from …
A U.S. judge has jailed Paul Manafort, who served as U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign manager during the 2016 presidential campaign, after revoking his bail ahead of a trial on charges brought by the special counsel investigating alleged Russian election interference. …
Outside the White House Friday, a media frenzy. And at the center of it all, President Donald Trump. “Can we do one question at a time? Wait! One question at a time,” the president scolded reporters. Trump launched a new attack on the Russia probe in the wake of a critical report on the Hillary …
Iranian fans at the national team’s first match at the World Cup unfurled a banner protesting Iran’s ban on women attending soccer matches back home. The banner read “#NoBan4Women” and “Support Iranian Women to Attend Stadiums” and it was held aloft during the match against Morocco in the Russian city of St. Petersburg on Friday. …
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In Indian Kashmir, thousands turned out to pay tribute at the funeral of a prominent journalist who was gunned down in the capital Srinagar, by unknown assailants. The killing of Shujaat Bukhari sent shock waves through the violence-scarred region where he was regarded as a strong voice for dialogue, reconciliation and peace. Police said …
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Facebook video spurs Georgian officials to detain mayor for the alleged “inhumane” treatment of a man that reportedly involved urine. …
U.S. President Donald Trump says “it’s possible” he will meet with Russian President Vladimir this summer and has pressed again for Moscow to be allowed to rejoin the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized countries. …
While people around the country hit the streets protesting separating children from their parents at the U.S. border, Republican House members are crafting an immigration bill that would end family separations, as the U.S. plans to reopen a tent shelter to house migrant children. Drafted by House Speaker Paul Ryan, the legislation says children who …
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Nyet. Non. Nein. No. That’s the answer the Supreme Court gave Thursday to the question of whether federal courts in the United States must accept statements from foreign governments about their own laws as binding. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for a unanimous court that a “federal court should accord respectful consideration to a foreign …
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Iran Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif says an effort in Canada’s Parliament to brand Iran’s Islamist Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) “terrorists” is regrettable. “Although the government has changed in Canada and a new administration has stepped into the political fray with a new approach toward the world, the radicals are still active in the country, …
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The United States says it is “deeply concerned” by reports that prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been arrested in Tehran and calls for her immediate release. …
A regional court has overturned a verdict that cleared Russian historian Yury Dmitriyev of child pornography charges, setting up a retrial, his lawyer says. …
Belarussian lawmakers have passed controversial amendments to the country’s media laws despite claims by domestic and international groups that the move risks leading to further censorship of the press. …
Much like the rest of the world, Muslims in America are in the midst of the holy month of Ramadan — praying, fasting, giving to charity and breaking their monthlong fast every day at sunset. But as VOA’s Urdu, Kurdish and Turkish services reports, Muslims get together to enjoy the holy month in different ways. …
Health experts are dispatching an experimental vaccine in areas of The Democratic Republic of the Congo that are considered ground zero in the fight against Ebola. Their hope is to try to combat the outbreak from the onset. The crucial test is providing hope, in times of uncertainty. VOA’s Julie Taboh has more. …
Judging by the size of the crowd and the number of exhibitors at the fourth annual Consumer Electronics Show Asia, which opened Wednesday in Shanghai, China is well on its way toward catching up with the United States in consumer technology. A mirror image of the older and bigger sister show in Las Vegas, CES …
The banned nerve agent sarin and chlorine were used in two more attacks in Syria last year, the global chemical-weapons watchdog has said. …
The White House is moving to defend U.S. President Donald Trump’s deal allowing the Chinese telecom giant ZTE to stay in business despite violating sanctions against Iran and North Korea. …
U.S. and British intelligence officials are warning soccer fans traveling to Russia for the World Cup that their cell phones and computers could be hacked by cyberspies. …
Statue of unknown bitcoin founder would first be visible through a mobile app. …
As the trade dispute escalates between the United States and its global trading partners, American bourbon whiskey is among the U.S. exports in the crosshairs. It will soon be subject to a 25 percent tariff imposed by a growing number of countries as a retaliatory measure for U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum. As VOA’s …
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Distilling spirits is in Paul Hletko’s DNA. “Prior to World War II, my grandfather’s family owned what is now a major brewery in the Czech Republic,” he told VOA. But his grandfather’s Jewish family lost more than a brewery when the Nazis took over Europe during the war. “The whole family got taken to the …
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Shares of embattled Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE plunged more than 40 percent Wednesday, its first day of trading after agreeing to pay a $1 billion fine to the United States for violating trade sanctions. ZTE nearly went under after the Trump administration imposed a seven-year ban on the company from buying crucial software and hardware …