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Saving digital files in commercial memory banks called cloud storage is a cheap and convenient way for long-term storage of documents, photos, music and video. Private users as well as businesses can access them from anywhere and share them with whomever they give the password to. Providers, such as Dropbox, Google Drive or Amazon S3, …
Management experts are always coming up with innovative ideas to improve the work environment, inspire employees and raise productivity. Big companies in Germany, like Lufthansa, Siemens, Daimler, BMW and Volkswagen’s Audi, are bringing harmony to the workplace by having symphony orchestras and encouraging employees to play music together. Faiza Elmasry has the story. Faith Lapidus …
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Before adjourning for the holidays, U.S. lawmakers kept America’s federal government funded for four weeks but left key questions unresolved, including the fate of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. VOA’s Michael Bowman reports that Democrats did not follow through on threats to shut down the government unless Congress addressed …
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A suicide bomber blew himself up near Afghanistan’s national intelligence agency compound in Kabul early on December 25, killing at least six civilians, security officials say. …
The Pakistan Foreign Ministry says it has given permission to the wife and mother of an Indian naval officer facing the death penalty for espionage in Pakistan to visit the man in Islamabad. …
Pope Francis ushered in Christmas with a reminder that today’s refugees are fleeing their homes just as Joseph and Mary had to before the birth of Jesus Christ. …
Iraq’s Oil Ministry invited oil companies on December 24 to submit statements of interest in building a new pipeline from the northern city of Kirkuk to Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Ceyhan. …
Amazon’s diligent, computerized know-it-all is the latest technology to enlist in NORAD Tracks Santa, the military-run program that fields phone calls and emails from children around the world eager to ask when Santa will arrive. Now entering its 62nd year, NORAD Tracks Santa will go live Sunday, with about 1,500 volunteers answering calls and emails …
The U.N. refugee agency is urging Greek authorities to speedily transfer thousands of refugees and migrants living under grim conditions on Greek islands to the mainland where they can receive better care. The agency acknowledges that about 6,000 asylum seekers have been moved to the mainland since mid-October. But, it notes, that still leaves some …
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Hundreds of Nigerian refugees who have fled the Boko Haram insurgency to the Minawao camp in northern Cameroon, now have the potential to become professional models after they were trained by the United Nations to be self-reliant and useful to themselves and their communities if they accept to voluntarily return. A majority of the carpenters …
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Pakistani officials say three soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb exploded near a team of bomb disposal experts in a remote area near the Afghan border. …
At least seven civilians were killed when a roadside bomb hit their van in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, local officials said. …
Three Indian soldiers were killed by military fire near the line of control that divides India and Pakistan in the contested state of Kashmir, the Indian army said Saturday. According to the Indian military, Pakistani soldiers fired across the border and killed an army officer and two soldiers, violating a cease-fire. There was no immediate …
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Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed a recently retired army general and a defense official Saturday as the country’s ruling party vice presidents. General Constantino Chiwenga, who retired last Sunday, led the military takeover in November that precipitated the resignation of the country’s longtime leader. Defense Minister Kembo Mohadi is the other person appointed as the …
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One of Afghanistan’s most powerful regional politicians has vowed to defy his ouster as governor of the northern province of Balkh, posing a potential threat to the shaky Western-backed governing coalition of President Ashraf Ghani. …
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron are urging both sides in eastern Ukraine to live up to cease-fire agreements amid a recent upswing in clashes between Russia-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces. The statement comes a day after U.S. officials said they would begin sending lethal weapons, including anti-tank missiles, to equip …
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Speaking at an annual gathering of Russia’s ruling United Russia party on December 23, its head and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that the party wants the “ultimate victory” of President Vladimir Putin at the presidential election in March 2018 and will give him “all possible support” now and in the future. (Reuters) …
Russia’s Civil Initiative Party has officially nominated journalist and TV personality Ksenia Sobchak to run as its candidate in a presidential election next year that is widely expected to hand President Vladimir Putin another six-year term. …
An immigrant teen who was denied an abortion by a U.S. government official, even though her pregnancy was caused by rape, had threatened to harm herself if she was forced to have the child, according to a government memo released Friday. The memo is addressed to Scott Lloyd, director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, …
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The United States and European Union say they oppose any action by Kosovo’s leadership to press for an end to a war crimes court linked to its 1998-99 independence struggle, calling it a “terrible idea” that will lead to the country’s isolation. …
As more residents return to Syria’s northern city of Raqqa after removal of the Islamic State, civilians say they are suffering from a lack of basic services such as water, electricity and fuel, even as the winter cold closes in. VOA’s Mahmoud Bali reports from the region. …
U.S. investigators said Friday that the engineer of a passenger train that derailed this week near Seattle remarked six seconds before the accident that the train was going too fast. Investigators said Friday that the engineer appeared to apply the brakes, but did not apply the emergency brakes before Monday’s derailment, which killed three people. The …
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed on the need to expedite an exchange of prisoners held on both sides of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Merkel’s office says. …
The authorities have ordered mosques in central Uzbekistan to donate money for New Year’s street decorations. …