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Amid threats from Islamic State group, getting in and out of the polling stations safely will be the prevailing thought on Iraqi voters’ minds May 12 when the country goes to the polls to choose a new parliament and the prime minister. Islamic State militants have threatened to carry out attacks ahead of the elections …
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The United States has imposed fresh sanctions on three entities and six Iranian individuals linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps two days after President Donald Trump announced he was pulling out of a landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. …
Mahathir Mohamad has been sworn in as Malaysia’s next prime minister, becoming, at 92, the world’s oldest elected leader following a stunning election win. …
The Armenian government has conducted its first major shake-up since former protest leader Nikol Pashinian became prime minister on May 8, firing the country’s top police chief and its national security adviser, while the acting finance minister announced his resignation. …
After failing to coax Washington to stick with the Iran nuclear deal, and facing protests at home over his labor and pension reforms, French President Emmanuel Macron may find solace Thursday in Germany, where he will be given a prestigious European award for another key ambition: far-reaching goals to reform and revamp the European Union. …
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A son of an American man who went missing in Iran 11 years ago said the U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal presents a new opportunity to bring his father home. In an interview with VOA Persian’s NewsHour program in Washington on Wednesday, Doug Levinson said the U.S. and Iranian governments should take advantage …
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Iranian forces fired 20 rockets at Israeli army posts in the Golan Heights from inside Syria, the Israeli military reported late Wednesday. Israel said its Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted some of the rockets while the others caused minimal damage and no casualties. Israel said it views the incident “with severity.” Israel has been …
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Israel will counter Iran’s actions in Syria, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on May 9 after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. …
Pakistani police say a 25-year-old woman who died under suspicious circumstances last month was strangled in a suspected “honor killing” case. …
Gina Haspel, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee for CIA director, has pledged she would never resume the spy agency’s “enhanced interrogation techniques,” often denounced as torture. …
Malaysians flocked to vote in a fiercely contested election Wednesday that pits an opposition led by former authoritarian leader Mahathir Mohamad against the ruling coalition of Prime Minister Najib Razak, whose reputation has been battered by corruption allegations and an unpopular sales tax. Long lines formed at polling booths in Kuala Lumpur and other cities …
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Republican voters rejected ex-convict Don Blankenship Tuesday in a West Virginia Senate primary in which he sold himself as “Trumpier than Trump” but was vigorously opposed by the president. GOP voters in Indiana, meanwhile, chose wealthy businessman Mike Braun over two sitting congressmen to lead the party’s charge against a vulnerable Democratic senator in the …
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Iran, Russia, and the European powers that signed a 2015 nuclear agreement with Tehran have vowed to keep honoring the deal despite a U.S. decision to pull out, but the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump says it is working to make that difficult. …
A prominent Iranian-Israeli journalist says Israeli intelligence sources have reported unusual activities by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps forces in Lebanon. Speaking to VOA Persian’s special program about President Donald Trump’s decision on the Iran nuclear deal, Menashe Amir said his intelligence sources detected the IRGC activities in Lebanon on Tuesday. Amir, who is based near …
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Russia’s soccer federation has been fined 25,000 euros ($29,600) over racist chants by Russian fans during a game with France in March, world soccer’s governing body, FIFA, says. …
Hackers affiliated with the Russian government conducted an “unprecedented, coordinated” campaign against the U.S. voting system, including successfully penetrating a few voter registration databases in 2016, a Senate committee has concluded. …
Wearing crisp red-and-white uniforms, a group of 60-year-olds pile into a bus, smiling broadly as they make their way to a school in Ayutthaya, a province in Thailand. For this group, and others across the country, going back to school offers a way to fight loneliness at a time when changing demographics mean more elderly …
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The United Nations food agency said its chief would visit North Korea on Tuesday to look into boosting food distributions to hungry women and children, in the latest sign of an opening in the isolated country. The four-day trip comes amid a warming of relations between the North and South Korea and in the build-up …
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After being elected Armenia’s new prime minister, protest leader Nikol Pashinian called on all officials in the country to serve the Armenian people “honestly and devotedly.” He made the comments in a victory speech on May 8 in front of supporters in Yerevan’s Republic Square. …
Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have met in China for unannounced talks ahead of an expected summit involving Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump. …
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran on Tuesday of deploying “very dangerous weapons” in Syria as part of a campaign to threaten Israel. Iran, “openly calls, daily, for the destruction, the elimination of Israel from the face of the earth and practices unmitigated aggression against us,” Netanyahu told reporters during a visit to Cyprus. …
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Watch the moment the Armenian parliament elected protest leader Nikol Pashinian as the country’s new prime minister. (AP) …
Cannes opened its doors on Monday for a festival that will show the new “Star Wars” spinoff but welcome fewer stellar names than usual. Critics have said a jury including Cate Blanchett, Kristen Stewart and Lea Seydoux has more A-list acting talent than the films — many from lesser-known European, Asian and African filmmakers — …
Read more “In a Film Festival Far, Far away, Cannes Puts Art Over Commerce”
Over 200,000 Venezuelans have registered with Colombian authorities in the first few weeks of a count meant to assess how many undocumented migrants have fled to the Andean country, the Colombian government said on Monday. South America is trying to cope with an exodus of Venezuelans leaving their home country in a bid to escape …
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