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A suicide bomber has killed 13 other people in the restive northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Sunday. The Sunday evening attack also injured five people. Two subsequent suicide bombings injured more than a dozen others. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, but officials suspect Boko Haram the militant group …
Voters in Kosovo headed to the polls on October 22 to cast ballots in municipal elections. RFE/RL filmed early voters in the capital, Pristina, including Kosovo’s Central Election Commission chief, Valdete Daka. (RFE/RL’s Balkan Service) …
Friends and relatives of a couple whose bodies were found in Joshua Tree National Park say they believe the two got lost while hiking in the sprawling desert park and struggled in the searing heat with little food or water before they died in a “sympathetic murder-suicide.” Rachel Nguyen, 20, and Joseph Orbeso, 22, had …
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said he would be willing to travel to North Korea on behalf of the Trump administration to help diffuse rising tensions, The New York Times reported on its website Sunday. “I would go, yes,” Carter, 93, told the Times when he was asked in an interview at his ranch house …
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Heavy rain and wind lashed southern Japan on Sunday as a powerful typhoon neared, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and disrupting rail services on a national election day. It was expected to near the Japanese capital Monday morning before veering east into the Northern Pacific. The agency issued warnings for heavy rain and …
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Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny is set to be freed on October 22 after serving a 20-day jail term for organizing unsanctioned protests against President Vladimir Putin. …
Voters in Kosovo are heading to the polls on October 22 in an election to choose mayors and councilors in 38 municipalities, in another step in the young republic’s effort to solidify its democratic credentials. …
Exit polls in Georgia are indicating that former AC Milan footballer Kakha Kaladze of the ruling Georgian Dream coalition is far ahead of the pack in the Tbilisi mayor’s race and may avoid the need for a runoff. …
Australia has been elected unopposed to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, despite the U.N.’s consistent criticism of Canberra’s policies on asylum seekers and indigenous people. The United Nations’ Human Rights Council was set up in March 2006. It is made up of 47 states which are responsible for promoting and protecting the rights of …
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Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on October 21 that he would restrict the powers of the parliament in Catalonia, sack its government, and call an election within six months in an attempt to stop its leaders from declaring independence. …
President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has unveiled Turkmenistan’s first golf course — to a nation that doesn’t play the sport and is struggling to make ends meet. …
Former presidents are shedding a traditional reluctance to criticize their successors, unleashing pointed attacks on the Trump White House and the commander in chief – but without mentioning him by name. Remarks on the same day by former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama raise the prospect that more dissenters will follow in defiance …
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Governments of the Group of Seven (G7) leading industrial nations say they will work with global technology giants in an effort to block the spread of Internet propaganda by Islamic extremist groups. …
A man with a knife attacked four people in Munich on Saturday and then fled, police said. A suspect was arrested a few hours later, and authorities were working to determine whether he was the assailant. Police received initial reports of an attack in the Haidhausen area, just east of downtown Munich, at about 8:30 …
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A Texas law banning sanctuary cities would harm diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Mexico, Mexico argues in a brief submitted to the appeals court reviewing the law. The brief, filed Thursday with the Fifth District Court of Appeals in New Orleans, says whenever state or local officials act improperly in upholding the sanctuary law, …
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Officials in Afghanistan say a suicide blast inside a crowded Shi’ite Muslim mosque in Kabul has killed at least 40 worshippers and wounded dozens more. Eyewitnesses and security officials told VOA the bomber walked into the Imam Zaman Mosque on Friday evening in the western Dashti Barchh area of the capital city and blew himself …
Scores of Afghan troops have failed to show up while undergoing military training in the United States due to death threats, other potential violent acts and uncertain job prospects, according to a report issued Friday. Of the 320 foreign military trainees who left U.S. military bases without permission since 2005, about half were Afghan nationals, …
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NATO would not be able to rebuff a potential Russian attack on its eastern flank, according to an internal report cited on October 20 by German weekly Der Spiegel. …
People rushed to help the victims after a suicide bomber attacked a Shi’ite mosque in western Kabul on October 20, leaving dozens dead and wounded. A separate attack on a Sunni mosque in the central Afghan province of Ghor claimed more casualties the same day. (AP) Note: Contains graphic images. …
Afghan soldiers and police who train in the United States go “absent without leave,” or AWOL, at far higher rates than those of any other country, possibly jeopardizing efforts to assist Afghan security forces, a U.S. watchdog says. …
Senate Republicans plan to introduce legislation that would add new conditions to the legislation that gives them review authority over the Iran nuclear deal, a longtime lawmaker says. Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, told VOA the current Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is “a lousy deal” and explained President Donald Trump …
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Four opposition-appointed Venezuelan judges have found refuge in Chile to avoid possible prison time. “All I can say today is that we were forced to abandon our beloved home of Venezuela, but that another nation has embraced us and will protect our freedom,” judge Beatriz Ruiz told reporters at the Santiago airport Thursday. Another judge …
Senate Republicans plan to introduce legislation that would add new conditions to the legislation that gives them review authority over the Iran nuclear deal, a longtime lawmaker says. Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, told VOA the current Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is “a lousy deal” and explained President Donald Trump …
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The Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act (Sergei Magnitsky Law), which earlier passed both houses of the Canadian Parliament, on October 19 received royal assent, which is required before a bill can come into force. …