Category: World

A look at the best news photos from around the world. …

German police shot at a “rampaging” man wielding a knife in a cathedral in Berlin on Sunday, according to city officers. “Shortly after 4 pm (1400 GMT) police shot at a rampaging man at Berlin Cathedral,” police said in a tweet. “He was wounded in the leg,” police said, later adding that an officer had …

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The U.S. ambassador to Russia says any meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin “would be a ways off.” Jon Huntsman suggested Sunday on “Fox & Friends” that if a summit were to occur, “the president, at the right time, will say what needs to be said.”   Huntsman’s statement comes after …

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India and Pakistan exchanged fire across the Line of Control (LoC) that divides the disputed region of Kashmir, Indian officials say, days after the two neighbors agreed to uphold a 2003 cease-fire agreement. …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has postponed a debate on legislation to recognize the mass killing of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire during World War I as genocide. …

Prominent euroskeptic Michael Gove should replace British Prime Minister Theresa May because she is incapable of delivering Brexit, a donor to her party was quoted as saying in an early edition of the Observer newspaper seen Saturday. May became prime minister in July 2016 after Britain voted to leave the European Union, and promised to bring about Britain’s departure from …

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Jordan’s prime minister refused to scrap an IMF-backed tax reform bill Saturday that has sparked the largest protests in more than five years against steep price hikes, saying it was up to parliament to decide its fate. Several thousand demonstrators staged protests near the Cabinet office for the third consecutive night over the draft legislation, …

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Several thousand supporters of Macedonia’s opposition VMRO-DPMNE party protested on Saturday against changing the name of the country and to demand an early election because of the poor state of the economy, which contracted last year. Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has promised to boost the economy and accelerate the country’s accession to NATO and the European Union, moves that have …

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Thousands of opposition supporters have protested outside Macedonia’s main government building in the capital of Skopje to demand an early election. …

The organizer of antigovernment rallies in Tbilisi urged “all political parties” in Georgia to join the protest movement as demonstrations continued into the early morning hours of June 3 in the South Caucasus nation. …

Bargains trump politics in Mitrovica store that shows ethnic Serbs, Albanians can coexist. …

Birds and airplanes share the sky, so inevitably collisions occur. But airport authorities try to limit those encounters because bird strikes cause costly damage to jet engines and can lead to crashes. Some airports employ trained dogs, others use loud noises to frighten birds away. A company in the Netherlands says its robotic predator Robird …

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For Muslims, the month of Ramadan is a time for self-reflection and prayer — and fasting from sunrise to sunset. After sunset, families and friends enjoy a meal called Iftar. At a mosque in Virginia, outside Washington, people of various faiths came to Iftar one evening and to join Muslims in prayer. VOA’s Deborah Block …

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The U.S. economy added 223,000 jobs in May, sending the unemployment rate to an 18-year low of 3.8 percent. The Labor Department says hourly wages also grew, bumping average worker pay up 2.7 percent from this time last year. And yet, despite the improving job picture, economists say there may be dark clouds forming on …

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A rally by thousands of protesters demanding the resignation of Georgia’s government ended in the early hours of the morning on June 2, but organizers said the demonstration would resume later in the evening. …

Apple is no longer complying with a Russian ban on Telegram and is now providing an updated version of the popular messaging service through its App store for iPhone users, Telegram said. …

Ukrainian authorities claim they have uncovered a hit-list of 47 people — mostly journalists — who are potential Russian assassination targets as a result of their sting operation staging the faked murder of exiled Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko. …

Seng Luangrath may have been born to cook. She started when she was a 7-year-old girl in Laos, learning from her grandmother. “My mom was too busy working,” she told VOA in the kitchen of her Washington, D.C., restaurant. “So, I had to cook for my three other siblings. I remember it was a joy …

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The jailed head of RIA Novosti-Ukraine, Kirill Vyshinsky, has appealed to both the Russian and Ukrainian presidents for assistance in his case and declared that he has given up his Ukrainian citizenship. …

From Italian to Chinese and Afghan to Ethiopian, there are many diverse ethnic restaurants in Washington. Yet, opening a new one with an unfamiliar cuisine can be risky. Seng Luangrath, a former refugee with a passion for cooking, dared to open the first Lao restaurant in the U.S. capital. As VOA’s June Soh reports, Thip …

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Student photographer Madeline Morales takes her camera everywhere she goes. She is always looking for something interesting to shoot.   “I try to look at things with a lot of light; a lot of what draws me is positivity – something that means love or happiness,” said Morales.   At 15 years of age, she …

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Thousands protested after angry scenes at a court case about the killings of two teenagers in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. The country’s chief prosecutor has resigned, as the crowds demanded the prime minister go too. …

Pakistan’s former Chief Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk is due to be sworn in on June 1 as caretaker prime minister for two months, after the country’s civilian government completed its term on June 1 for only the second time in the country’s history. …

Ukrainian authorities have identified the Ukrainian citizen accused of being recruited by Russia’s secret services to organize a murder plot against self-exiled Russian reporter and Kremlin critic Arkady Babchenko. …