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Canada announced Friday that it was imposing sanctions on key figures in the regime of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro. Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said in a statement that the measure was meant to be a clear message that anti-democratic behavior has consequences. The behavior in question is Maduro’s appointment last month of an assembly …
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A fishing boat carrying migrants sank on September 22 off Turkey’s Black Sea coast, killing at least 21 people and leaving up to five others missing, the Turkish coastguard said. …
Against all odds, Mikheil Saakashvili returned to Ukraine just two months after being stripped of his citizenship and banned. Now he is embarking on a wild national tour in an attempt to show he is back on the political map. …
Moldova has called for the United Nations to discuss withdrawing Russian troops from its breakaway Transdniester region at its current General Assembly session. …
The UN Security Council has approved a resolution directing United Nations investigators to help Iraq collect evidence to build potential war crimes cases against Islamic State (IS) extremists. …
Britain’s division of the Indian subcontinent into two countries 70 years ago led to the largest mass migration in modern history, with more than 12 million people displaced and more than half a million killed. The traumatic legacy of the birth of India and Pakistan is the focus of a new museum that opened in …
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Officials from Azerbaijan and the European Union will discuss a draft of the new Baku-EU partnership agreement on September 29, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmud Mammadquliyev has told reporters in Baku. …
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called U.S. President Donald Trump “deranged” and said he will “pay dearly” for threating to “totally destroy” North Korea. …
On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Three people were killed and more than 260 injured, including Jeff Bauman, who lost both his legs. Hours later, when he awoke from surgery, Bauman helped identify one of the terrorists. Now, the film Stronger, based on Bauman’s memoir …
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At their low point in the late 1980s, there were 22 California condors left in the world. But in 1992, after dedicated efforts to save them, the condors began rebounding. Today, these magnificent raptors are coming back. VOA’s Kevin Enochs reports. …
Thousands gathered Thursday at the gates of Catalonia’s judicial body in Barcelona to demand the release of a dozen officials arrested in connection with a vote on independence that Spanish authorities are challenging as illegal. The demonstrators answered a call by pro-independence civic groups to stage long-term street protests against the police surprise crackdown one …
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By the standards of this year’s raucous French vote, and Britain’s rowdy one last year, Germany’s federal election campaign has been staid and predictable. With two days left before polls open, Angela Merkel appears to be cruising to her fourth term as the country’s chancellor. Aghast at the Brexit vote and Donald Trump’s election in …
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Pakistan has vowed to remain engaged with the United States in fighting regional terrorism and stabilizing Afghanistan, but said “any political or military” role for its archenemy India in the war-torn country will be unacceptable for Islamabad. Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi made the remarks late Wednesday during a public talk at the Council …
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Iraqi says it has launched an offensive to expel Islamic State (IS) militants from one of the last two areas in the country still controlled by the extremist group. …
Iraqi forces began a military operation to retake the northern town of Hawija in Kirkuk Province from Islamic State militants on September 21, according to a statement from the Iraqi prime minister’s office. Hawija is one of the last strongholds held by the extremists in Iraq. (AP) …
Russia has warned the United States that it will retaliate immediately if Syrian government forces come under fire from positions held by a U.S.-backed Kurdish-led militia in eastern Syria. …
A New Jersey man who once won a $338 million Powerball jackpot has been charged with sexually assaulting a child. Pedro Quezada, of Wayne, was charged with sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child. Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes said Wednesday that the child was between 11 and 14 when the assaults are …
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The European Union’s top energy official said the bloc’s legislative body will seek legal changes to avoid some of the controversy surrounding a new Russian-backed undersea pipeline. …
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A chief gripe with Apple Watch is that it requires you to keep an iPhone with you for most tasks. The inclusion of GPS last year helped on runs and bike rides, but you’re still missing calls and messages without the phone nearby. A new model with its own cellular-network connection is Apple’s next step …
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A top European Union finance official said Kyiv needs to do more in fighting corruption and to pass pension and land reforms as conditions for receiving more financial aid from Brussels. …
Ukraine’s president has repeated his call for a full United Nations peacekeeping mission, telling the world body that such a mission should be authorized to patrol Ukraine’s border with Russia. …
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 19 pledged to focus his government on bringing greater prosperity and human rights to his nation and the Central Asian region. …
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in interview with Fox News late on September 19 that changes are needed in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal before the administration of President Donald Trump will agree to support it. …