Category: World

A group of pro-Kurdish protesters have clashed with Turkish government supporters and German police at Duesseldorf airport, leaving several injured. …

A private jet flying from the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) to Istanbul has crashed in southwestern Iran, killing at least 11 people. …

Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has become the latest woman to accuse influential Russian lawmaker Leonid Slutsky of sexual harassment. …

British media are reporting that the United Kingdom could boycott this summer’s World Cup soccer championships in Russia if it is determined Moscow is behind the suspected nerve-gas attack on a former Russian spy in the English city of Salisbury. …

Direct flights between Iran and Serbia have resume after a gap of 27 years with the landing on March 10 of an IranAir jet at Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla Airport. …

A father who lost his son in Iraq is comforted by a chance meeting in Washington with the nurse who cared for the soldier in his last moments, and after. …

A space at a Baltimore park that had long honored two Confederate generals has been rededicated to abolitionist Harriet Tubman.    The Baltimore Sun reported that hundreds of people gathered Saturday for the ceremony at Wyman Park Dell. The ceremony took place just feet from the now-empty pedestal where a large statue of Confederate Generals …

Read more “Former Confederate Statue Site in Maryland Rededicated to Harriet Tubman “

A narrow strip of blue has been stretched for more than 120 miles (196 kilometers) across the nation of Bolivia as part of a demonstration of the country’s demand for an outlet to the sea. Bolivian officials say the Bolivian navy ensign held by participants along a highway on Saturday is the world’s biggest — …

Read more “Bolivians Stretch Vast Flag in Demand for Sea Outlet”

Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of cities in Slovakia following the murder of a journalist and his fiancée two weeks ago. Many demonstrators are calling for fresh elections. The killing has shaken Slovakia and Europe, where there is growing concern over press freedoms and the safety of journalists following a number of …

Read more “EU Fears Press Freedom Under Threat, as Protesters Return to Streets of Slovakia”

Researchers in Sweden have embarked on a four-year project whose aim is to understand one of the most complex animal “languages” — the one dolphins use to communicate with each other. VOA’s George Putic has details. …

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he “couldn’t care less” if Russian citizens sought to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, insisting that the Kremlin had nothing to do with the efforts. …

A newly established opposition group plans to hold its first rally in the Armenian capital over the weekend. …

The former Russian spy who was poisoned this week by a nerve agent continued to provide Western intelligence agencies with information after arriving in Britain as part of a spy swap in 2010, media are reporting. …

The European Union says it is not clear whether the bloc will be exempt from U.S. President Donald Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs. EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem said Friday in Brussels, “We hope that we can get confirmation that the EU is excluded from this.” Trump signed proclamations Thursday imposing a 25 percent tariff …

Read more “EU Seeks Clarity on Trump Tariffs”

A Kazakh businessman jailed in a politically charged case escaped from custody for a few hours but is back behind bars, authorities say. …

Shukufa Haideri has been boxing for 10 years. She says other Afghan women must “get out of the house, fight, learn, and do sports.” …

So far, 114 children in the U.S. have died from influenza or a flu-related illness, and the flu season is not yet over. Most of those children had not been vaccinated against the virus, Dr. Anne Schuchat, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said. In her testimony Thursday before a House …

Read more “Flu Vaccines More Effective for Children Than for Adults”

U.S. President Donald Trump’s surprise acceptance of an invitation to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang “by May” to discuss ending the North’s threatening nuclear program was met with a mixture of cautious optimism and skepticism. Chung Eui-yong, the head of South Korea’s National Security Office, announced the agreement late Thursday. …

Read more “Trump-Kim Jong Un Summit News Met With Cautious Optimism”

Britain’s interior minister has visited the scene where former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found unconscious in a southern English city after a suspected nerve-agent attack. …

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has re-affirmed the U.S. commitment to Africa, two months after President Donald Trump’s reported derogatory comments about the continent. “I think the United States commitment to Africa is quite clear in terms of the importance we place on the relationship,” said Tillerson at the African Union headquarters in Addis …

Read more “Tillerson Reaffirms US Commitment to Africa”

Capitol Hill’s sharp divide on immigration extended to the Trump administration’s decision to sue California for shielding undocumented immigrants, with numerous Democratic lawmakers blasting the Justice Department’s action and many Republicans applauding it. “It’s very disturbing,” California Senator Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, told VOA on Thursday. “It’s all unnecessary.”   …

Read more “Cheers, Jeers on Capitol Hill for Lawsuit Targeting California’s ‘Sanctuary’ Policies”

A court on Thursday convicted a musician-turned-newspaper columnist of “knowingly and willingly” aiding the network led by U.S.-based Mulim cleric Fethullah Gulen and sentenced him to three years and one month in prison, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported.   Singer Atilla Tas, who wrote a newspaper column and became a social media phenomenon for posting …

Read more “Turkey: Musician, Journalists Sentenced for ‘Terror’ Links”

The top U.S. military commander in Europe warned that the Balkans are facing increased covert and overt pressure from Russia, and that Washington and NATO need to do more to keep the region from destabilizing. …

A new Telegram account from a Russian-language troll in St. Petersburg’s nefarious troll factory who says he spends his days “s****ing in the comment boxes.” …