Category: World

The U.S. Senate has voted overwhelmingly to advance the approval of Montenegro’s bid to join NATO, paving the way for the Balkan nation to join the military alliance. …

Authorities say hip-hop star Fetty Wap was at the scene of a shooting in his New Jersey hometown that left three people wounded.   The shooting happened at a 24-hour deli in Paterson at about 5 a.m. Sunday.   Investigators say the rapper, whose real name is Willie Maxwell, and several friends are not suspects …

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Russian police dispersed demonstrators in downtown Moscow and arrested the anticorruption rally organizer, opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, on March 26. Navalny called for protests in cities across Russia to condemn corruption after his anticorruption foundation published an investigation into property owned by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Russia and abroad. (RFE/RL’s Russian Service) …

U.S.-backed forces in northern Syria said Monday they will pause military operations near a major dam held by the so-called Islamic State group in order to allow engineers to fix any problems after conflicting reports about its stability. The decision by the Syrian Democratic Forces came a day after conflicting reports over whether civilians had …

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Hong Kong has selected Carrie Lam to be the city’s first-ever female chief executive, sealing an election that many saw as a foregone conclusion and not a democratic race.  In her victory speech Sunday, Lam pledged to mend political rifts across the city’s political spectrums.  But her victory is largely shunned by the city’s democracy …

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Russian opposition leader and anticorruption campaigner Aleksei Navalny was defiant after his arrest in Moscow, pledging to organize mass legal challenges against the detention of around 1,000 people at protests across Russia and to take part in the 2018 presidential election. Navalny, who was speaking on March 27, was fined $350 for taking part in …

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Separate military maneuvers — one involving Tajik and U.S. forces and the other Tajik and Russian troops — are due to begin in Tajikistan on March 27. …

Hundreds of Russians joined anticorruption rallies in the cities of Krasnoyarsk and Novosibirsk on March 26. The demonstrations were called by activist and opposition leader Aleksei Navalny after his antigraft foundation had published an investigation into property owned by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Russia and abroad. (RFE/RL’s Russian Service) …

Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said a military helicopter has crashed in the eastern Donbas region, killing 5 people aboard. …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right party won a state election by large margin, exit polls said Sunday, in an early setback to center-left hopes of unseating her in the September national vote. Early results from the voting in Saarland state had Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) leading with 40 percent while the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) …

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The coming week will see Republicans attempting to regroup and reignite momentum behind a conservative agenda that failed its first major test of 2017: repealing and replacing former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. VOA’s Michael Bowman reports, last week’s legislative train wreck showed that, despite controlling the White House and both houses of …

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Police in Kyrgyzstan have used stun grenades to disperse hundreds of protesters at a rally against the detention of a former parliamentary deputy who plans to run for the presidency. …

Nigerian lawmakers on Saturday summoned the attorney general, accountant general, minister of interior and representatives of four companies to appear next month before a committee of parliamentarians over allegations that revenues were withheld from the immigration service. The head of the Nigeria Immigration Service told a committee led by Senator Solomon Adeola that the companies …

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Francois Fillon’s aides used an umbrella to shield him from eggs thrown by protesters in southwest France on Saturday as the beleaguered conservative fell further behind centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-rightist Marine Le Pen in opinion polls. The contrast between former front-runner Fillon, embroiled in a financial scandal, and new poll favorite Macron was striking …

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Iran has denied claims by the United States that Iranian fast-attack boats were “harassing” warships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz. …

The gunman in a fatal shooting on the Las Vegas Strip who barricaded himself inside a public bus has surrendered peacefully after shutting down the busy tourism corridor for hours, police said. The standoff began about 11 a.m. local time Saturday with a shooting that killed one person and injured another. It happened on a …

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Hundreds of Belarusians protested in Brest and Homel against President Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s government on March 25. (RFE/RL’s Belarus Service) …

Police in Kyrgyzstan have used stun grenades to disperse hundreds of protesters at a rally against the detention of a former parliamentary deputy who plans to run for the presidency. …

Philippine soldiers Saturday rescued one of two Filipino cargo ship crewmen taken captive two days ago by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants, a security official said. The troops recovered Aurelio Agacac, the ship captain, in the remote village of Basakan in the southern Philippine province of Basilan, said Colonel Juvymax Uy, commander of the military’s 104th …

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Friday he has asked the United Nations to help the South American nation alleviate medicine shortages, which have become increasingly severe as the oil-producing nation’s economic crisis accelerates. Triple digit inflation and a decaying socialist economic model have left medications ranging from simple anti-inflammatory drugs to chemotherapy medication out of …

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A teenage blogger from Singapore whose online posts blasting his government landed in him jail was granted asylum to remain in the United States, an immigration judge in Chicago ruled Friday.   Amos Yee has been detained by federal immigration authorities since December when he was taken into custody at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Attorneys …

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The French defense minister says the Western-backed coalition in Syria is ready to launch its final push to drive Islamic State (IS) militants from their so-called capital in Raqqa. …

Belarusian opposition leader and former presidential candidate Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu has been detained upon arrival in Minsk after talks with Polish government officials in Warsaw. …