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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is beginning a visit to Greece on December 7 — the first by a Turkish head of state in 65 years — amid concerns about relations between the two uneasy NATO allies. …
Millions of voters in Nepal are heading to the polls in a historic election that completes the troubled country’s transition to full democracy. Thursday’s vote is the second and final phase of elections that will formally establish seven provincial assemblies, as well as elect members to the 275-member parliament. About 12 million voters in southern …
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A senior United Nations official on a rare high-level visit to North Korea held talks with the North’s foreign minister Thursday. Jeffrey Feltman, the U.N. undersecretary-general for political affairs, met with Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho on the second full day of the highest-level U.N. visit to the North since 2010. He arrived in Pyongyang …
Donald Trump Jr. has refused to tell U.S. lawmakers about conversations he had with his father regarding a 2016 meeting he had with several Russians at Trump Tower, a top congressional Democrat said. …
President Donald Trump’s decision Wednesday to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has been welcomed by a majority of the top U.S. organizations representing American Jews, a community that overwhelmingly voted for his rival, Hillary Clinton, in last year’s presidential election. Seven of the most prominent U.S. Jewish organizations issued statements supporting Trump’s move …
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The U.S. capital’s city council took up legislation to rename a public square located in front of Russia’s Embassy in memory of the slain opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. …
Donald Trump Jr. is set to testify Wednesday before the House Intelligence Committee in a closed-door session as lawmakers continue their investigation into Russian interference in last year’s U.S. elections. Trump made a similar appearance in September in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he denied his father’s presidential campaign colluded with Russia. One …
A French court has ordered Russian businessman and lawmaker Suleiman Kerimov, who is under formal investigation on suspicion of tax evasion, to pay 40 million euros ($47 million) bail. …
Russian President Vladimir Putin has strongly hinted that he will seek reelection in March 2018 and said he will announce a decision soon. …
Johnny Hallyday, France’s biggest rock star for more than half a century and an icon who packed sports stadiums and all but lit up the Eiffel Tower with his pumping pelvis and high-voltage tunes, has died. He was 74. President Emmanuel Macron announced his death in a statement early Wednesday, saying “he brought a part …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman says the Kremlin will analyze the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ruling barring Russia from the upcoming 2018 Winter Olympics before making any decisions about the country’s participation. …
Russia says it needs to carefully analyze a decision by the International Olympic Committee to ban Russia from competing as a country in the upcoming Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, before taking any measures. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Wednesday that the priority right now is on protecting the interests of Russian athletes. …
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) says it has banned Russia from the 2018 Winter Olympics over allegations of state-sponsored doping but that some Russian athletes would be allowed to compete “under strict conditions.” …
YouTube says it’s hiring more people to help curb videos that violate its policies. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says “some bad actors are exploiting” the Google-owned service to “mislead, manipulate, harass or even harm.” She says Google will have more than 10,000 workers address the problem by next year, though her blog post Monday doesn’t …
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Special prosecutor Robert Mueller, investigating Russian meddling in last year’s U.S. election, is now also looking at the financial affairs of President Donald Trump. Mueller is examining records about hundreds of millions of dollars in loans Deutsche Bank made to Trump’s vast real estate empire, according to media reports. Mueller subpoenaed the records several weeks …
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A Macedonian court has ordered that three opposition lawmakers be held in custody for a month pending an investigation into their alleged involvement in violence at the parliament building earlier this year. …
A Palestinian spokesman says U.S. President Donald Trump has told Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas that he intends to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem amid growing warnings across the Middle East against making the move. …
We are live. In Extra Time Shaka answers your questions about politics in Africa. …
The government’s star witness in the New York trial of a Turkish banker once said it’s necessary in America to admit crimes that never occurred to get out of prison, defense lawyers wrote in a letter to the trial judge Monday. The letter from lawyers for Halkbank executive Mehmet Hakan Atilla was publically filed but …
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More than half the ballots cast in Bolivia’s judicial elections on Sunday were spoiled, or nullified, by voters, a sign that the opposition said showed dwindling support for President Evo Morales. Tensions are high in Bolivia after the Constitutional Court last week gave Morales the green light to run for a fourth straight term in …
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Millions of people walk along Washington’s National Mall and pause to stare up at the giant obelisk that is the Washington Monument. It may be one of DC’s most iconic structures, but few know about its history or what’s inside. VOA’s Steve Miller takes us to the top with a special inside look. …
The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump’s travel ban on six mainly Muslim countries to go fully into effect. …
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is set to decide on December 5 whether to ban Russia from the Winter Olympics in February due to allegations of state-sponsored doping. …
A Taliban “special forces” unit has drawn attention amid escalating deadly attacks on the Afghan security forces. …