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Pope Francis is meeting Tuesday with Myanmar’s civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a day after the country’s military chief said he told the pontiff that there is “no religious discrimination” in Myanmar. The United Nations and the United States have accused Myanmar’s military of “ethnic cleansing” in violence against Rohingya Muslims, and Aung San …
There’s a new sporting arena in Libya’s coastal city of Misrata. It’s full of trenches and hiding spots so armed competitors have places to duck for cover when the shooting begins. Arash Arabasadi reports. …
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri has threatened to resign unless Iranian ally Hizballah accepts Lebanon’s policy of neutrality and stays out of regional conflicts. …
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia’s new Vostochny cosmodrome will be used for only a second time to launch a Soyuz-2 space rocket on November 28. …
A wealthy Turkish-Iranian businessman who was the alleged mastermind in what U.S. prosecutors say was a high-level conspiracy to help Iran evade U.S. sanctions will not stand trial this week as scheduled though the case is proceeding against his co-defendant. …
Kyrgyzstan’s newly inaugurated President Sooronbai Jeenbekov has awarded his predecessor Almazbek Atambaev with the title of a national hero. …
Zimbabwe has no shortage of energetic, educated young people, many of them college graduates. But what the country lacks is jobs, and the pressure is on for the new government to turn the situation around quickly. VOA talked to young people on the streets of the capital, Harare, who say they want the new president …
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Ankara has urged Washington to drop federal charges against a Turkish-Iranian gold trader and a banker who are accused of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions. …
Former Russian Economy Minister Aleksei Ulyukayev, who is being tried on an extortion charge, has adamantly protested his innocence and accused state oil company chief Igor Sechin of lying to investigators. …
Britain’s Prince Harry is officially engaged to American actress Meghan Markle. Harry’s father, Prince Charles, made the announcement in a statement Monday. “His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales is delighted to announce the engagement of Prince Harry to Ms. Meghan Markle.” The statement said the wedding will take place in Spring 2018 and “Further …
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A United Nations expert on child exploitation and trafficking is calling on the Laos Government to boost welfare support for child victims, and increase regional cooperation to combat child trafficking. Maud De Boer-Buquicchio, a U.N. special rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, made the calls after an official visit, as Laos takes …
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The longest-serving member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman John Conyers of Michigan, said Sunday he is relinquishing his position as the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee while allegations of sexual harassment against him are investigated. The 88-year-old Conyers last week acknowledged he had reached a $27,000 settlement with a woman who formerly …
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The leader of Russia’s North Caucasus region of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has said that it is time for him to step aside. …
Albania’s President Ilir Meta has kicked off a two-day unofficial visit to a southern Serbian town with a sizable ethnic Albanian population. …
Government airstrikes and shelling outside the Syrian capital killed at least 23 civilians, activists reported Sunday, as fighting in the area showed no signs of letting up ahead of the resumption of U.N. peace talks in Geneva. The government’s jets and artillery launched a wave of attacks on residential areas in the Eastern Ghouta …
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Albanian President Ilir Meta arrived for an unofficial visit to Medvedja, a southern Serbian town with a sizable ethnic Albanian minority, on November 26. Meta was welcomed by local officials and community leaders. (RFE/RL’s Balkan Service) …
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has told Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad in phone call that a proposed “national congress” involving opposing forces could help bring stability and security to the war-ravaged country. …
The scale of the bloodshed was vastly higher than it was in past militant attacks, but the Egyptian government response was the same: three days of mourning, reassuring messages in the media that things were under control, and the president promising vengeance. The identical pattern in the aftermath of Friday’s attack on a mosque in …
Read more “Egypt’s Options Dwindling in Its Fight Against Militants”
A U.S. federal grand jury this week indicted the man accused of driving a truck down a crowded bike path in Lower Manhattan on charges of terrorism and murder. The attack last month killed eight people and injured 12 others. U.S. authorities charge that Sayfullo Saipov, 29, of Paterson, New Jersey, was inspired by Islamic …
Read more “Uzbeks Fear Some May Associate Their Ethnicity With Terrorism”
Ukraine is marking the official Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holodomor, which commemorates the millions who died of famine under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. In central Kyiv on Saturday, President Petro Poroshenko and hundreds of other people laid symbolic wheat ears and lit candles before the monument commemorating victims of the famine. …
The United States has warned Pakistan that there will be repercussions for bilateral ties unless Islamabad takes action to detain and charge a U.S.-wanted militant accused of masterminding a deadly attack in India. …
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called on Russia to recognize the famine that killed millions of people in Ukraine under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin as genocide, “or at least repent for it.” …
Pope Francis heads to Myanmar and Bangladesh with the international community excoriating Myanmar’s crackdown on Rohingya Muslims as “ethnic cleansing,” but his own church resisting the label and defending Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi as the only hope for democracy. Francis will thus be walking a fraught diplomatic tightrope during the Nov. 27-Dec. …
Read more “Pope’s Role as Champion of Refugees Faces Test in Myanmar”