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Leading U.S. senators said Russian-linked hackers succeeded in penetrating the voting system in at least one U.S. state in 2016, as lawmakers called for new efforts to protect those U.S. election systems from hacking. …
The commander of U.S. nuclear forces says that Russia has increased its deployment of cruise missiles that Washington asserts are in violation of a key Cold War arms-control treaty, a signal that Moscow continues to be undeterred by U.S. warnings. …
Three buses with diplomatic license plates left the Russian Embassy in London on March 20. Twenty-three Russian diplomats had been ordered out of Britain in response to the poisoning of a former spy with a deadly nerve agent. (Reuters) …
The Democrats’ chances of winning back the U.S. House got a boost Monday when the Supreme Court and a separate panel of federal judges rejected Republican efforts to block newly re-drawn congressional districts in Pennsylvania. This means the November Congressional election in Pennsylvania will likely favor Democrats over Republicans. The Supreme Court rejected the Republican …
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Colombia proposed on Monday that the International Monetary Fund provide assistance to help several hundred thousand Venezuelan refugees who have fled an economic and political crisis to neighboring countries, officials at the G20 summit said. The proposal was discussed at a meeting on Venezuela by leading finance ministers from the Western Hemisphere, the European Union …
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Turkish authorities have detained four men after they were found to have large quantities of a radioactive nuclear element in their car. The element, known as Californium, was found when a car was searched in the Ankara suburb of Pursaklar on Monday during an anti-smuggling operation. Police said the four were part of a criminal …
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Montenegro’s Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) has nominated its leader, Milo Djukanovic, to be its candidate in a presidential election next month. …
Russian armed forces have launched large-scale military exercises in southern parts of the country, including the Russian-occupied regions in Georgia and the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. …
The sharp-tongued head of the TV channel formerly known as Russia Today was fulsome, both in her praise for Putin, and also in her criticism of the West. …
The French AFP news agency is reporting that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s planned visit to Vietnam has been called off for “unexpected reasons.” …
NATO will begin moving into its new headquarters in Brussels after several delays caused by technical problems, German news agency dpa reports. …
The top White House lawyer has issued a statement saying that President Donald Trump was not considering firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller. …
German band Joasihno strikes a chord in a unique way as it takes its show on the road. Currently touring in Canada, the two-man band works in concert with a “robotic” element that can play several instruments at the same time. “Actually we call it psychedelic robot orchestra,” said Cico Beck, one of the creators …
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Turkish-backed forces in Syria have taken full control of the Afrin enclave that has been held by Syrian Kurds. Turkish soldiers and local militias entered the center of Afrin Sunday after a two-month offensive. Kurds protest the offensive calling it ethnic cleansing and vow to continue the fight to keep their ancestral lands in Syria. …
President Donald Trump referred to MS-13 in his State of the Union address as “the most violent and murderous gang in the US.” He claims the gang’s violent activities are a consequence of a broken US immigration system. But who and what is MS-13? VOA Spanish Service correspondent Cristina Caicedo Smit explains the origins of …
The main rebel group in the southern pocket of Syria’s opposition-held eastern Ghouta told Reuters on Sunday it was negotiating with a United Nations delegation about a ceasefire, aid and the evacuation of urgent medical cases. “We are engaged in arranging serious negotiations to guarantee the safety and protection of civilians,” said Wael Alwan, the …
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte asked governments on Sunday to abandon the International Criminal Court, saying the world tribunal – where he is facing a possible complaint for the thousands of killings of drug suspects under his crackdown – is “rude.” Although the Philippine Senate has ratified the Rome Statute that established the ICC, Duterte said …
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The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria condemns the rampant sexual and gender-based violence used by Syria’s warring parties to instill fear in the civilian population and to humiliate and shame their victims into silence. The U.N. investigators find sexual and gender-based violence is pervasive throughout Syrian society. No one is spared. They say countless …
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Supporters of opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili are demonstrating in Kyiv to demand the resignation of President Petro Poroshenko. …
Five members of an Indian family were killed and two wounded by Pakistani shelling in disputed Kashmir on March 18. …
Security has been stepped up outside Russian government installations in Ukraine after Kyiv announced that only diplomats would be allowed access to vote in Russia’s presidential election. …
Voters in Russia go to the polls on March 18 in a presidential election that is all but certain to secure President Vladimir Putin a fourth term in office. …
Two U.S. senators – one Republican and one Democrat – have pledged greater support for a U.S.-based Iranian-American group that calls for replacing Iran’s Islamist leadership with a democratic, secular government. Republican Senator John Boozman and Democratic Senator Ben Cardin spoke to the Organization of Iranian-American Communities (OIAC) on Thursday, as the group held an …
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The Russian scientist who originally helped develop the nerve agent believed to have been used in the poisoning of a Russian double agent in Britain said other countries could have also produced test samples of the substance. …