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The top Kyrgyz and Uzbek defense officials have met to discuss cooperation for the first time since the two Central Asian countries gained independence when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. …
A senior Russian lawmaker overseeing family-related issues has some advice for fellow Russian women during the World Cup: Don’t have sex with foreign men. …
A look at the best news photos from around the world. …
The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the congress of soccer’s world governing body in Moscow on June 13 that is set to elect the host of the 2026 World Cup. …
The leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban, Hibatullah Akhundzada, renewed his call Tuesday for direct talks with the United States to end the war, dashing renewed hopes the insurgent group might be mulling to engage in a peace dialogue with the Kabul government. In his “message of felicitation” on the occasion of Eid ul Fitr festival, which …
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Uzbek businessmen who fled Kyrgyzstan in the wake of violence eight years ago want the new Kyrgyz president to review related prison sentences and property losses. Is this the right time? (The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL.) …
Major leaders across Asia and the world mostly voiced approval for Tuesday’s agreement between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to push toward ending Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program, even as South Korea and others adopted a more cautious stance. South Korean President Moon Jae-in said he told Trump in a …
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Western powers have warned that Russia could attack deep-sea cables that form what is known as the “backbone of the global Internet,” though some experts suggest the threat may be overblown. …
Irene Mboyo Mola spent 11 days caring for her husband as he died of Ebola in a hospital where she said nurses were too scared to get close. She helped him to the bathroom, picked up his feverish body when he lost his balance, and reinserted an IV that fell out of his bleeding arm. …
Read more “Test of Ebola Vaccine Raises Hopes, Doubts in Congo”
Japan has lodged a protest against Russia’s plan to lay fiber-optic cables to disputed islands that lay between the two countries, calling the construction work illegal and “extremely deplorable.” …
Germany and France are voicing cautious optimism that Russia and Ukraine will take steps to revive the long-stalled cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, but said no agreement was reached on deploying a UN peacekeeping mission there. …
Keeping healthy could become more costly as climate change and water scarcity cause a huge drop in the global production of vegetables and legumes, scientists said Monday. The amount of vegetables produced could fall by more than a third, especially in hot regions like southern Europe and swaths of Africa and South Asia, said researchers …
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Top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow suffered a heart attack and is being treated at a Washington area hospital, President Donald Trump said in a tweet. “Our Great Larry Kudlow, who has been working so hard on trade and the economy, has just suffered a heart attack. He is now in Walter Reed Medical …
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Spain says it will give “safe harbor” to a migrant rescue ship stranded in the Mediterranean to help avoid a “humanitarian catastrophe,” after Italy and Malta both refused to let the ship dock. …
The Band’s Visit, a musical about a an Egyptian police orchestra booked for a concert in an Israeli town, but end up in the wrong town, took home the prize for the best new musical at Sunday’s Tony Awards honoring Broadway performances The stars of The Band’s Visit – Katrina Lenk and Tony Shalhoub – …
Envoys from the United States and North Korea are holding talks to iron out any last-minute differences before Tuesday’s historic summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that veteran diplomat Sung Kim is leading the U.S. delegation in a …
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President Donald Trump tweeted out more criticism of U.S. trade partners Monday, including allies in Europe and Canada, adding to his declarations that the United States will no longer tolerate what he has called “trade abuse.” “Sorry, we cannot let our friends, or enemies, take advantage of us on Trade anymore. We must put the …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that he’s happy to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump once Washington is ready to hold the summit and welcomed Trump’s call to bring Moscow back into the G-7 group of leading industrialized nations. Speaking to reporters in Qingdao, China, Putin said that some nations, including Austria, have offered …
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It was a calmer summit, but drew far less Western media attention than the fractious G7 gathering in Canada, which ended in disarray in an escalating dispute over trade and tariffs. Half a world away at a carefully choreographed annual meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Qingdao, China, there were no death-grip handshakes, …
Kim Jong Un on Sunday strayed further from his North Korean home than he has at any other time since taking power in 2011. The North Korean leader arrived in Singapore midday Sunday, flying on a Chinese jet to the Changi Airport. Kim on Tuesday is set to meet U.S. President Donald Trump …
Russian President Vladimir Putin says it is too early to discuss details of a possible exchange of prisoners with Kyiv, including imprisoned Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov. …
Several officials from former Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev’s administration are under investigation and Atambaev’s last prime minister, Sapar Isakov, and a former mayor of the capital, Kubanychbek Kulmatov, were taken into custody on June 5. Some feel Atambaev might be next. …
A woman was fired from her TV job in Siberia after raising a ruckus when her daughter participated in a kindergarten concert that featured a militaristic song pledging loyalty to President Vladimir Putin. …
Newly crowned French Open champion Simona Halep said she was inspired to win her first Grand Slam title by her manager Virginia Ruzici’s feats 40 years ago at Roland Garros. Ruzici’s 1978 Paris triumph over Mima Jausovec was the last time a Romanian, man or woman, had won a Grand Slam, but Halep ended that …