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Outgoing White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster has called for stronger measures against Russian “threats” and “provocations,” arguing that Russian President Vladimir Putin is mistaken in thinking the West will not push back against the Kremlin’s “hybrid warfare.” …
Kosovo’s prime minister and its president are in sharp disagreement over the arrest and deportation of six Turkish nationals. …
Darya Komarova was eager to interview a top Russian film director in 2012 — until she says he made an indecent proposal. …
Mexican officials on Tuesday screened a dwindling group of hundreds of largely Central American migrants who are moving through Mexico toward the United States, seeking to break up the “caravan” that has drawn the ire of U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump, doubling down on his tough stance against illegal immigration, has railed against those making …
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An independent presidential candidate running against Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro says government supporters physically attacked his campaign. Henri Falcon tweeted Monday that opposition lawmaker Teodoro Campos was campaigning with him in a poor neighborhood in the capital of Caracas when a man wearing steel knuckles struck Campos. Lawmaker taken to hospital The attack sent Campos …
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A Dutch attorney who once worked closely with U.S. President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, has been sentenced to 30 days in prison and a $20,000 fine for lying to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators about contacts with an official in Trump’s 2016 campaign. …
Hundreds of flag-waving Ukrainian nationalists took to the streets of Kyiv on April 3 to protest corruption and the power of oligarchs. …
Moldova has become the source of a war between Russia and NATO — a cyberwar in which Russia quickly gains the upper hand and storms into Chisinau. In truth, the story line is a fictitious one made up for a project by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, but it is part of a …
Read more “NATO Vs. Killer Russian Robots: Graphic Novel Envisions Cyberwar In Moldova”
They chanted his name from the cheap seats: “Di-Vin-cen-zo, Di-Vin-cen-zo.” By the time Donte DiVincenzo was done doing his damage, Villanova had another title and college basketball had its newest star. The redhead kid with the nickname Big Ragu scored 31 points Monday to lift `Nova to another blowout tournament victory – this time 79-62 …
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Stock markets in Asia fell Tuesday, but did not suffer losses as steep as those Monday in U.S. markets where continued fears about a U.S.-China trade war and a verbal attack on an online retailer by President Donald Trump sent stocks lower. Markets in Japan and Hong Kong fell by more than one percent in …
The Syrian government launched several airstrikes Sunday on the rebel-held eastern Qalamoun area, northeast of Damascus, according to local activists. The airstrikes came as negotiations are underway between local councils of the main towns in eastern Qalamoun, and representatives from the Syrian government and the Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria. “The rebels and local councils …
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The presidents of three Baltic states are expected to ask U.S. President Donald Trump to do more to deter Russia by bolstering U.S. forces on NATO’s eastern flank at a White House meeting scheduled for April 3. …
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he welcomes U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent pledge to pull U.S. troops out of Syria “very soon” now that the Islamic State militant group has been largely defeated there. …
Four Christians were shot dead in southwestern Pakistan on April 2, police said, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State militant group. …
Separatists in Indian-administered Kashmir called for a shutdown Monday in the strife-torn state to protest deadly clashes with security forces the day before that killed 13 rebels, four civilians and three soldiers. Security has been increased in the region, ahead of more expected skirmishes. Schools and businesses are closed. Kashmir has been the center of …
This week the United States and South Korea began annual joint military training exercises which had been delayed to keep the peace during the Olympics in the South, and reduced in scope as a conciliatory gesture to facilitate talks to end North Korea’s nuclear program. However as VOA’s Brian Padden reports from Seoul, permanently ending …
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Dozens of schoolgirls have been sickened at a high school in the southern Afghan province of Helmand in what officials suspect is a case of group poisoning. …
“We’ve made a bunch of mistakes.” “Everyone needs complete control over who they share with at all times.” “Not one day goes by when I don’t think about what it means for us to be the stewards of this community and their trust.” Sound familiar? It’s Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressing a major privacy …
Read more “Promises, Promises: Facebook’s History with Privacy”
Russia says the recent decision to extradite an alleged Russian hacker from the Czech Republic to the United States is aimed at “undermining” bilateral relations between Moscow and Prague. …
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he was “deeply moved” by a concert of South Korean pop musicians paying a rare visit to Pyongyang, state media reports on April 2. …
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Russian opposition blogger Mikhail Svetov says he was beaten and sent back to Moscow upon his arrival at the airport in Kemerovo, a Siberian city where at least 64 people were killed in a shopping-mall fire last month. …
A plane transporting expelled Russian diplomats with their family members from the United States landed at Vnukovo airport outside of Moscow on April 1. Workers could be seen unloading large boxes carrying diplomatic items from the Russian Ilyushin Il-96 jet. The diplomatic staff were told to leave the United States as part of an international …