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Less than two years following the end of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in September 1997, the Irish rock band U2 staged a mega-concert in Sarajevo. For many residents of the Bosnian capital it was the first real sign that peace had come. …
Afghanistan has received the first batch of U.S.-made UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from the United States. …
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said early Saturday that Tropical Storm Nate was now a hurricane, and it issued hurricane and storm surge warnings for the Southern US state of Louisiana and the Mississippi and Alabama coasts. “No one should take this storm lightly,” Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said Friday. “It has already claimed …
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Tina Lund came to support a friend who came to represent the family. But she cared for the marker like a victim’s mother, gently wrapping blue ribbon around the cross and hanging a collage of photos. Brian Fraser’s cross stands in a stunning row of 59 white crosses. Each cross has a name written in …
A deputy prime minister of Kyrgyzstan was killed when a vehicle he was riding in collided with a KamAZ truck on a highway in the Central Asian nation. …
Once a refugee, an Ethiopian immigrant to the United States is now a successful businessman running a multimillion dollar transportation company. VOA’s Tigist Geme recently documented his journey to achieving the American Dream. …
The U.S. State Department has called on Russia to find and prosecute those who ordered the 2006 murder of prominent Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. …
U.S. authorities say three men have been arrested on charges of plotting attacks in New York City for the extremist Islamic State (IS) group. …
Thousands of mourners gathered in the Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah to pay their respects to late Kurdish leader and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, who was to be buried Friday in the town that was the seat of his political power. Talabani, once a champion of Kurdish self-rule, is being remembered as a national statesman after …
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Cambodia’s government is moving to dissolve the main opposition party. An interior ministry spokesman says the ruling Cambodian People’s Party has filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court with the goal of dissolving the Cambodia National Rescue Party. The ruling party claims CNRP has been involved in a plot to topple the government. Half of …
The Moscow City Court on October 6 upheld a lower court’s order to jail opposition politician Aleksei Navalny for 20 days. …
U.S. President Donald Trump has made a cryptic remark after a meeting with senior military leaders, saying the moment could be “the calm before the storm,” but declining to elaborate. …
The team captain of Spain’s storied football club Barcelona, which has become a focal point of secessionist Catalan sentiment, is urging politicians in Madrid and the Catalan capital to start negotiating about the future of Spain’s restive northeast province. “Before we do ourselves more damage, those in charge must open dialogue with each other. Do …
Read more “EU Official Warns War a Possibility in Catalonia”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed the governor of the Novosibirsk Oblast, Vladimir Gorodetsky, pushing ahead with a reshuffle of regional leaders as the Kremlin gears up for the presidential election in March. …
Russia’s Defense Ministry has drafted legislation to ban social-media posts by professional military personnel on security grounds. …
Bangladesh is building the world’s largest refugee camp to house over half a million Rohingya who have fled Myanmar, officials said Thursday. Refugees who are currently scattered in 23 camps along the border will be transferred to one central camp in Cox’s Bazaar, Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, minister for disaster management and relief, said Thursday. …
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U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan says a firearm accessory used by the gunman who killed 58 people and wounded hundreds of others in Las Vegas, Nevada, should be examined, possibly leading to Republican consideration of gun control legislation. “Clearly, that is something we need to look into,” the Wisconsin Republican said Thursday in an interview …
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Women’s rights groups on Thursday denounced police raids on their offices in several Polish cities that resulted in the seizing of documents and computers, a day after women staged anti-government marches to protest the country’s restrictive abortion law. The raids took place Wednesday in the cities of Warsaw, Gdansk, Lodz and Zielona Gora. They targeted …
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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has said most foreign troops will be able to leave the country “within four years.” …
Severe flooding has spread to more towns and villages throughout southern Azerbaijan, after heavy rains inundated parts of the capital, Baku, earlier this week. (RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service) …
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers unveiled legislation on Wednesday that would overhaul aspects of the National Security Agency’s warrantless internet surveillance program in an effort to install additional privacy protections. The bill, which will be formally introduced as soon as Thursday, is likely to revive debate in Washington over the balance between security and …
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Horse manure will generate electricity for an international horse show in Finland this month in a new form of alternative energy, Finnish utility Fortum said Wednesday. It said the Helsinki horse show in mid-October will be the first at which the event’s electricity needs, from scoreboards to lighting, are met by energy from the horses’ …
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The regional Catalan government plans to declare independence in the coming days from Spain, the latest twist in a constitutional crisis between Spain’s central government in Madrid and separatists in the northeast. What that independence declaration will actually mean for the prosperous region — and how Spain, the European Union and the international community …
Read more “AP Explains: How Spain-Catalonia Standoff Has Evolved”
Amnesty International (AI) says thousands of Afghans are being put in danger by European governments by forcing them home, where they face the risk of human rights abuses including torture, kidnapping, and death. …