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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been charged for tweeting brutal images of Islamic State violence. The move by a court in the Paris suburb of Nanterre comes after the National Assembly voted in November to strip the National Front chief of her parliamentary immunity over the three photos posted on Twitter in 2015. …
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The White House on Thursday faced fresh speculation about the future of national security adviser H.R. McMaster, with officials sending mixed messages about his possible departure. Amid a stream of staff leaving Donald Trump’s White House, NBC reported that the three-star general tasked with running White House security policy would, within months, be headed for …
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Mustafa Emre Çabuk is out of prison but not out of trouble. The Turkish national, who for the past 15 years ran a Gülen school in the Georgian capital, Tblisi, is the latest international educator caught up in Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s anti-Gülenist campaign. Çabuk is at home under security services protection after nine …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has presented computer animations of new wonder weapons he says have been successfully tested and developed. …
After Vladimir Putin says a new Russian arsenal is aimed at countering U.S. threats, experts warn that a destabilizing race for new weapons — and new guidelines for using them — is upon us. …
On the heels of President Vladimir Putin’s claims of new Russian weapons to usher in a “new reality,” RFE/RL talked to a strategic forces and deterrence expert about the possible advantages of the array of nuclear-powered, hypersonic, and underwater weapons Putin described. …
Orchids are among the world’s most beautiful flowers. Although the blossoms come in different shapes, sizes and colors, they all belong to one of the largest and oldest families of flowering plants on earth. The U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington is showcasing some of the thousands of different orchid varieties in a spectacular exhibit that …
Daichi Yamamoto is a Japanese photographer who has called Senegal home for the past two years. His work captures local fashion, and he’s helped launch the careers of several Senegalese fashion models. For VOA, Chika Oduah has the story from Dakar. …
Italian voters go to the polls Sunday to vote in a race driven by growing anti-immigrant sentiments and rising eurosceptic movements. The major contenders are the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the populist Northern League, an alliance created by former, disgraced prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, 81. None of those vying for power appear likely to …
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U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating whether President Donald Trump attempted to push Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign last summer as part of a pattern of attempting to obstruct his investigation into alleged Russian election meddling, the Washington Post is reporting. …
The White House on February 28 announced that communications director Hope Hicks is resigning, one day after she was grilled by a congressional committee investigating connections between Russia and U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration. …
Exxon Mobil Corp has cited U.S. and European sanctions against Russia in announcing that it is abandoning its joint ventures with Russian state-run oil giant Rosneft. …
A Belarusian vlogger has attracted the attention of the authorities after posting a video that pokes fun at President Alyaksandr Lukashenka. …
Students who survived one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history are returning to school Wednesday, as federal and state lawmakers continue to debate how to prevent young people from losing their lives in what they all agree should be the safe confines of the nation’s schools. There have been no classes at Marjory …
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday rebels in the eastern Ghouta area of Syria are blocking aid deliveries and preventing people from leaving during what Russia has called a daily “humanitarian pause” in its military operations. The Russian plan is meant to give a five-hour window for people to get help or get out …
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Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani has offered unconditional peace talks to the Taliban, as well as the chance of recognizing them as a legitimate political party and withdrawing their names from international sanctions lists, if they agreed to join a peace process and give up violence. Addressing the second Kabul Process conference Wednesday morning, Ghani said …
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A man the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) claims was behind an alleged attempt to smuggle nearly 400 kilograms of cocaine from Argentina to Moscow is claiming he is the victim of a set-up by U.S. intelligence and Argentinian police, Russian media report. …
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that Moscow will continue to help Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government to defeat what he called the “terrorist threat.” …
Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev says he has offered four options to Greece in an effort to resolve a decades-old dispute over his country’s name. …
Family and friends of slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov unveiled a street sign renamed in his honor in front of the Russian Embassy in Washington D.C. on February 27. Members of the U.S. Congress and D.C. Council officials also attended the ceremony. (Reuters) …
The U.S. Africa Command says two al-Shabab militants have been killed and another injured in an airstrike in southern Somalia. AFRICOM says the airstrike occurred Monday in the vicinity of the town of Jilib, in the Middle Jubba region. It marked the fourth airstrike in Somalia by the U.S. forces so far this year. Previous …
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Women in Iran have been allowed to attend a men’s sporting event in Tehran for the first time in years — and social media applauds. …
The southern African nation of Botswana has taken the unusual step of directly criticizing Congolese President Joseph Kabila, saying his refusal to hold long overdue elections is driving deadly violence and a growing humanitarian emergency in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Botswana’s Foreign Ministry declined VOA’s request to elaborate on the statement, saying the words …