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For Roseleine Duperval, the U.N. mission to stabilize Haiti will always remind her of one thing: her 8-year-old daughter, who she says was fathered by a Uruguayan peacekeeper. Duperval is among a group of Haitian women who embarked on a long, largely fruitless journey to try to force peacekeepers who they say fathered their children …
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Everything you need to know about the primary goals of the Paris Climate Accords. …
Gunfire and explosions were reported at a tourist complex in the Philippine capital, Manila. …
They are veteran Syrian rebels who for years tried to bring down President Bashar Assad. These days they’re doing little fighting with his forces as they struggle to find a place in Syria’s bewildering battlefield, where several wars are being waged at once. Battered by defeats and divisions, the rebels reel around trying to …
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Former U.S. FBI Director James Comey is scheduled to testify on June 8 before a congressional panel investigating allegations of Russian interference in last year’s presidential election, the Senate Intelligence Committee said. …
Russia’s ambassador to NATO says Moscow will respond to the alliance’s military deployment in Eastern members. …
SpaceX is taking recycling to a whole new realm — all the way to orbit. On this week’s supply run to the International Space Station, SpaceX will launch a Dragon capsule that’s already traveled there. The milestone comes just two months after the launch of its first reused rocket booster for a satellite. “This whole …
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An Indian charity is using big data to pinpoint human trafficking hot spots in a bid to prevent vulnerable women and girls vanishing from high-risk villages into the sex trade. My Choices Foundation uses specially designed technology to identify those villages that are most at risk of modern slavery, then launches local campaigns to sound …
The House intelligence committee said Wednesday it is issuing subpoenas for former national security adviser Michael Flynn and President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, as well as their businesses, as part of its investigation into Russian activities during last year’s election. In addition to those four subpoenas, the committee has issued three others, to …
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The crash of a Russian military plane that killed 92 people last year, including members of Russia’s renowned army choir, was likely caused by pilot disorientation, Russian media reported on May 31. …
Macedonia’s parliament has elected a new center-left coalition government led by former opposition leader Zoran Zaev, ending a six-month political stalemate. …
Montenegro’s Prime Minister Dusko Markovic said on May 31 that the Kremlin has a secret list of Montenegrin officials who are banned from entering Russia due to the small Balkan nation’s participation in Western sanctions over Ukraine. …
Inside the sprawling Acer stall at Computex Taipei, Asia’s largest tech show, staff displayed a laptop computer that’s ready for virtual reality play yet thinner than most PCs for gaming. At the same exhibition, the Taiwanese tech hardware maker showed how its internet cloud uses artificial intelligence to predict what customers will do when shopping …
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Sri Lanka said Wednesday floods and landslides set off by monsoon rains have now killed at least 202 people. The latest update from the country’s Disaster Management Center said 96 people were still reported missing, while nearly 80,000 people were displaced in temporary shelters. The rain began drenching the country late last week, with flooding …
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At least 54 people were killed and 346 were wounded in a powerful explosion in the center of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, on May 31, a Health Ministry spokesman told RFE/RL. …
French authorities have opened a preliminary investigation into former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur in connection with a funding scandal that arose from a 1990s arms deal with Pakistan. …
The Russian Defense Ministry says a Russian warship and a submarine in the Mediterranean Sea have fired four cruise missiles targeting positions and equipment of the extremist group Islamic State (IS) near the Syrian city of Palmyra. …
A massive truck bomb exploded Wednesday morning in the diplomatic section of Afghanistan’s capital, killing at least 50 people and wounding over 320 others, a health ministry spokesman told VOA. The blast ripped through the central Wazir Akbar Khan area of Kabul, home to foreign diplomatic missions and government offices, damaging dozens of vehicles and …
The Thai economy, under the military’s stewardship for the past three years, is again witnessing steady growth but lags behind regional competitors as uncertainties remain, keeping foreign investors at bay. The World Bank and United Nations (UN) say the Thai economy is in a slow growth lane compared to regional rivals, with a projection of over …
U.S. President Donald Trump has reiterated his accusation that Germany does not pay its fair share of dues in NATO on Twitter, three days after a meeting with the country’s leader that the White House said went well. “They pay FAR LESS than they should on NATO & military. Very bad for U.S. This will …
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Polish and Afghan special forces, backed by U.S. air power, freed 11 people who had been taken hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, Poland’s Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz said on Tuesday. The hostages included two soldiers, four police officers and five civilians, all of them Afghan nationals who had been held captive …
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Inhabitants of Kyzyl-Oktyabr in Kyrgyzstan drink dirty water from a lake that sometimes contains dead animals. Some 39% of the country’s population has no access to clean water. (Current Time TV) …
U.S. President Donald Trump has complained on Twitter about the U.S. trade deficit with Germany, the latest salvo in a sharp exchange that began during his visit to Europe and the Middle East last week. …
The Dutch Senate has approved the European Union’s Association Agreement with Ukraine, paving the way for ratification of the pact strengthening ties between the EU and Kyiv. …