Category: World

YouTube has removed a video likening Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, citing a copyright claim. …

Drawn-out deaths. Communities torn apart. Survivor’s guilt. Patrick Fallah says his memories of the days when the Ebola virus swept through Liberia are so awful that he sometimes has trouble focusing on the present. “Sometimes when I have a flashback of the death of my son and others who died in the Ebola treatment unit, …

Read more “After Ebola, Liberians Slowly Embrace Mental Health Care”

A top U.S. State Department official who helped broker the Iran nuclear deal was demoted and reassigned after right-wing media outlets questioned her loyalty to U.S. President Donald Trump, media reported on April 20. …

Pakistani opposition leaders on April 21 called for protests demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as an investigation into his family’s finances continues. …

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres met for the first with U.S. President Donald Trump on April 21 amid White House plans to slash funding to the world body. …

The United States has offered to help fund Mexico’s efforts to eradicate opium poppies, the U.S. assistant secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) said Friday, as Mexican heroin output increased again last year. “We would be prepared to support (opium eradication efforts) should we reach a basic agreement in terms of how …

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U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed Friday to continue their tough approach to illegal immigration, warning of the dangers of cross-border gangs and sanctuary cities. Speaking in San Diego on the second day of a trip through the U.S. Southwest, where border concerns are most prominent, Kelly …

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U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered a full review of the powers given to government regulators to oversee the banking and finance industries following the financial meltdown of 2008. Trump went to the Treasury Department on Friday to sign three executive orders that start the process of fulfilling his campaign pledges to undo regulations that …

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France began picking itself up Friday from another shooting claimed by the Islamic State group, with President Francois Hollande calling together the government’s security council and his would-be successors in the presidential election campaign treading carefully before voting this weekend. One of the key questions was if, and how, the attack that killed one police …

Read more “After Shooting, France Turns to Weekend’s Presidential Vote”

Vietnam is facing a power dilemma, with officials in Hanoi trying to figure out how to supply all of its surging energy needs without destroying its environment in the process. Southeast Asia in general will see energy use jump 80 percent in the next two decades, according to Trilliant, a software firm for electricity grids. …

Read more “Vietnam Turns to Technology to Solve Energy Dilemma”

German authorities say they have arrested a dual German-Russian citizen on suspicion of carrying out last week’s bomb attack against a bus carrying players from a top soccer team. …

Norah Chepkulul, a single mother of two young sons, stands outside her home, a grass thatched hut surrounded by cactuslike euphoria trees on the dusty Maasai Mara road in Kenya’s Rift Valley. She has just finished milking her four cows and has asked the boys to keep an eye on the goats corralled in the …

Read more “In Kenya’s Herder Societies, Property Rights for Women”

Germany on April 20 deported to his native Serbia a man whose killing of a young Turkish-German woman drew international attention and outrage in Germany. …

A close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump is lobbying U.S. prosecutors to go easy on a man charged with helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions because he could be a potential bargaining chip in a political deal with Turkey. …

Tennis Champion Serena Williams has announced she will miss the remainder of the tennis season because she is expecting her first child later this year. A spokeswoman for Williams issued a statement to the media saying Serena is pregnant. The 35-year-old Williams won her 23rd Grand Slam singles title at the Australian Open in January …

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Could China’s quest for oil in disputed waters run into trouble? North Korea has words for Washington. Plus, Australia and New Zealand tighten up immigration rules. VOA’s Steve Miller has your Asia news, in a minute. …

As stability slowly returns to the Central African Republic, some of the hundreds of thousands of people who fled the conflict and communal violence in 2013 and 2014 are coming home. Five young returnees have brought with them a new skill: capoeira. The martial art was developed centuries ago by African slaves in Brazil. It …

Read more “Capoeira for Peace in the Central African Republic”

As police investigate why a mob of fellow students would lynch Mashal Khan, the Pakistani student’s outspokenness and social media footprint stand out. …

A Russian warship has docked in the Philippines, a traditional U.S. ally. The guided-missile cruiser Varyag, the flagship of the Russian Pacific fleet, arrived in Manila on April 20 for a four-day visit. (Reuters) …

Far more Russians have a positive view of Bolshevik Revolution leader Vladimir Lenin than they did a decade ago, according to an opinion poll by the independent Levada agency. …

Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush will spend at least another day at a Houston hospital where he is under observation while recovering from his second bout of pneumonia in three months, his spokesman said on Wednesday. Bush, 92, was admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital on Friday for a cough that was later diagnosed as …

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The Ugandan military says it is ending its manhunt for fugitive warlord Joseph Kony after years of chasing him and bands of loyal fighters across Central Africa. A military spokesman, Brigadier General Richard Karemire, told a reporter for VOA’s Swahili service Wednesday that the search for Kony has been suspended.   Ugandan newspapers report the …

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At least 11 people were killed and 20 are missing after a landslide hit several neighborhoods in Manizales, Colombia, the government said on Wednesday, the second deadly landslide in the country this month. Recent heavy rains have endangered residents in dozens of provincial towns, where makeshift construction on the slopes of the Andes makes neighborhoods …

Read more “Nearly a Dozen People Killed in Colombia Landslide, 20 Missing”

In reaching an agreement to purchase gas from Azerbaijan, Georgia has both obviated the need to purchase any additional Russian gas in 2017 and temporarily deflected criticism of a recent deal with Gazprom. …