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Jahantab Ahmadi became a viral sensation on the Afghan web after she was photographed nursing her infant daughter while taking her university entrance exam. She passed the exam — and became the subject of a crowdfunding effort to help her pay her university fees. (RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan) …
Police in Kazakhstan’s capital hunted for people holding blue balloons during Norouz new year celebrations on March 22, following fugitive opposition politician Mukhtar Ablyazov’s Facebook call for Kazakhs to express support for his banned movement by displaying blue balloons. …
A car bomb has exploded at the entrance of a sports stadium in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Afghanistan’s southwestern province of Helmand, killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens as they were leaving a wrestling match. …
John Bolton, chosen by President Donald Trump late Thursday to replace H.R. McMaster as national security adviser, is a career lawyer and diplomat who has long been on the president’s short list to join the administration. The lifelong conservative has taken hawkish public stances on such issues as North Korea’s nuclear program. In February, he told …
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U.S. President Donald Trump is replacing national security adviser H.R. McMaster with former UN Ambassador John Bolton, an outspoken hawk who has advocated using military force against Iran and North Korea. …
U.S. President Donald Trump has been issued a summons by the attorneys general of the District of Columbia and the neighboring state of Maryland, alleging his business activities are violating a clause of the U.S. Constitution. The summons issued earlier this week is addressed to Trump in both “his official capacity and his individual capacity.” …
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Just a week after the empire he started announced it is shutting down, Toys R Us founder Charles Lazarus died at 94. “There have been many sad moments for Toys R Us in recent weeks and none more heartbreaking than today’s news about the passing of our beloved founder,” the company said Thursday. No cause …
A journalist with Current Time TV has claimed that Russian nationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky touched him inappropriately in 2006. Renat Davletgildeyev made the allegation on his Facebook page and spoke about it with Timur Olevsky on Current Time TV, a Russian-language TV and digital network led by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in partnership with VOA. …
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EU leaders said they agreed at a summit in Brussels on March 23 to recall their envoy to Moscow after concluding that it is “highly likely” Russia was responsible for the poisoning of a Russian former spy in England. …
Spring has arrived in the United States, and that means the start of the busy festival season. Large crowds are expected to gather at fairs, festivals and outdoor concerts around the country. Given the recent spate of mass shootings and acts of terror in crowded areas, first responders say they are busy preparing to make …
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The United States has had “constructive” talks with France, Britain, and Germany about creating a side agreement to the Iran nuclear deal but is making contingency plans should the effort fail, the lead U.S. negotiator has said. …
Malta’s financial regulator has ordered the Iranian chairman of a bank investigated by slain journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia to step down following his arrest in the United States on charges of evading U.S. sanctions on Iran. …
Nearly two dozen members of the pro-Kremlin motorcycle group Night Wolves have visited Banja Luka, the administrative center of Bosnia’s predominantly Serb entity, Republika Srpska, as part of what they are calling a “Russian Balkans” tour. …
Amid acrimonious public recriminations, Russia’s liberals have turned on each other following Russia’s presidential election, blaming not only ballot-rigging for Vladimir Putin’s landslide win, but each other. VOA’s Jamie Dettmer has more from Moscow. …
A proposed U.S.-North Korea summit is, for now, just that: a proposal. On this week’s edition of VOA’s “Plugged In With Greta Van Susteren,” analysts say that while the logistics and timing of talks are up in the air, so is the definition of real progress for all sides involved. VOA’s Robert Raffaele has more. …
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday sharply criticized Turkey’s military offensive in the northern Syrian town of Afrin and condemned ongoing attacks by Syrian forces in eastern Ghouta, near Damascus. Speaking to lawmakers in the Bundestag lower house of parliament, Merkel said the German government was condemning the air strikes on eastern Ghouta “in the …
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Saudi Arabia is revamping its education curriculum to eradicate any trace of Muslim Brotherhood influence and will dismiss anyone working in the sector who sympathizes with the banned group, the education minister said. ” Promoting a more moderate form of Islam is one of the promises made by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman under plans …
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The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has complained of slow progress by Russian authorities toward making the country’s anti-doping agency, RUSADA, compliant with international standards. …
When Nestle executive Stephan Canz attended the German school in Nairobi in the early 1980s, it was surrounded by lush coffee farms. Today, the trees have long since been uprooted and replaced by a shopping mall and upmarket homes, driving a sharp drop in production of Kenya’s premium beans. “The coffee has disappeared,” said Canz, …
Read more “Nestle Provides Lifeline for Struggling Kenyan Coffee Farmers”
A Cambridge University academic who harvested data on tens of millions of Facebook users says he has been made a scapegoat by the social network and Britain-based political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. …
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Around 1,200 former members of Colombia’s FARC rebel group did not demobilize under a peace deal and instead joined dissident factions still fighting the government, the head of the military said on Tuesday, quadrupling the initial official estimate of dissidents. Most members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) handed over their weapons at …
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An Egyptian court on Tuesday ordered authorities to revoke the operating licenses of the Uber and Careem ride-hailing services and block their mobile apps and software. The government and the companies are expected to appeal the administrative court verdict, which would prevent it from being implemented until a higher court weighs in. The administrative court …
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Yakubu Nkeki knows just what to say when he meets the parents of 110 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram militants in the northeastern town of Dapchi last month. His daughter was among 220 Chibok girls abducted by the insurgents in 2014, which put Nigeria’s nine-year-old conflict with Boko Haram into the global spotlight, …
Read more “‘Be Patient,’ Chibok Parents Tell Families of Nigeria’s Latest Kidnap Victims”