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Moscow says it will shut down the U.S. Consulate in St. Petersburg and expel from Russia the same number of diplomats that Britain, the United States, and others have kicked out of their countries, as tensions continued to mount. …
Prosecutors have asked a Moscow court to sentence three members of an ultraconservative group to prison for an arson attack apparently aimed to prevent the screening of a movie depicting an affair between a teenaged ballerina and the future Russian Tsar Nicholas II. …
British health officials say the daughter of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal is no longer in critical condition and is “improving rapidly,” weeks after a March 4 nerve-agent attack in an English city. …
Authorities were investigating a riot and fire at a Venezuelan police station Wednesday where relatives said dozens of detainees were being kept in squalid conditions and were feared dead. Officials offered no information on what happened or whether there were any casualties, and police clashed with relatives who gathered outside the station, demanding information on …
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The U.N. secretary-general on Wednesday appointed a former U.S. career diplomat to be the organization’s political chief. Antonio Guterres named Rosemary DiCarlo as undersecretary-general for political affairs. She is the first woman to hold the position. Since August 2015, DiCarlo has been president of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and a senior fellow …
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Serbia’s president sought advice from Russian President Vladimir Putin on how to respond to a spike in tension with Kosovo. Aleksandar Vucic’s office said in a statement that he informed Putin about the “brutal attack” by Kosovo police on Monday against a senior Serb official who was arrested and expelled after entering the country without …
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British police said they believe former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter likely first came into contact with a military-grade nerve agent at their front door. …
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the “brutal attack” by Kosovar police against a senior Serb official earlier in the week. …
U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May in a phone call discussed the need to “dismantle” spying networks and prevent other illegal activities by Russia in their two countries, the White House says. …
Gunmen riding on a motorcycle have shot and killed a transgender woman and her friend in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, police say. …
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has rejected Saudi Arabia’s accusation that it supplied missiles to Yemen’s Huthi rebels that were used in attacks on the kingdom. …
There is a saying that one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. That is the idea behind a new concept by an Israeli company that is taking trash from landfills and converting it into a plastic-like composite. The material is being used to make household items and furniture, as we hear from VOA’s Deborah Block. …
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Some eight million youth in the Democratic Republic of Congo have come of age in time for a critical national election scheduled for later this year. VOA’s Anita Powell talked to young people in Kinshasa to learn their thoughts about the poll, and whether they think it will end the country’s political crisis. …
With the help of small loans, women in villages in India’s northern Haryana state are emerging as entrepreneurs and in the process improving family incomes and winning respect in a deeply patriarchal society. Anjana Pasricha visited one all-women group that has set up a dairy project to understand how their lives have changed. …
Russia’s poisoning of a former spy in Britain is part of a Kremlin strategy to divide the West by conducting covert operations and then fomenting doubt and disagreement over who’s responsible, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has said. …
Fifty-nine U.S. senators have called on the Polish prime minister to support legislation that would allow Holocaust victims and their heirs to receive compensation for property that was seized by the Germans during World War II and later nationalized by the Communists. In a letter signed by more than half of the Senate and released …
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A bishop in China’s underground church has reportedly been detained, just as the Vatican has been laying the groundwork for him to step aside as part of a historic deal with Beijing authorities over bishop nominations. The AsiaNews agency, which closely covers the Catholic Church in China, said Bishop Vincent Guo Xijin and his …
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Vietnamese singer and activist Do Nguyen Mai Khoi, an outspoken campaigner for free speech, was briefly detained at an airport in the capital Hanoi on Tuesday after flying home from Europe, her husband told Reuters. Often dubbed a Vietnamese version of “Pussy Riot” or Lady Gaga because of her activism and provocative style, Mai Khoi …
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These are the countries kicking out Russian ‘intelligence officers’ …
Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko, whom Russia has charged with espionage in a case seen by rights activists as politically motivated, has entered a not guilty plea as his trial began in Moscow. …
Russian historian and activist Yury Dmitriyev, who is being tried on child-pornography charges, says he maintained his innocence in his final statement to the court ahead of a verdict. …
Sierra Leone’s election commission applied to delay Tuesday’s runoff presidential vote until the weekend, after a court on Monday lifted an interim injunction that had stalled preparations. The commission applied to the Constitutional Supreme Court for more time shortly after the decision by the West African nation’s high court. The injunction had been granted Saturday …
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A Brazilian appeals court rejected on Monday final procedural objections raised by lawyers of former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva against his conviction for corruption, raising the possibility that he will soon be jailed. However, Lula will not be imprisoned until the country’s Supreme Court decides on April 4 whether to accept his …
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Former South African President Jacob Zuma is to appear in court on April 6 to face corruption charges. Police said Zuma was issued a summons Monday, continuing a dramatic fall for the former president who was forced to leave office last month after his party turned against him. South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority said earlier …
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