Category: World

A look at the best news photos from around the world. …

Iranians have demonstrated at the location of a decades-old chemical attack to condemn a suspected gas attack on a Syrian town last week that killed dozens of civilians, and to call for an end to the use of such weapons. …

In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s surprise strikes on Syria, his allies and adversaries have searched for some broader meaning in his decision. Is Trump now a humanitarian interventionist, willing to wield American military power when foreign governments threaten their own citizens? Is he a commander in chief who once warned against intervention in …

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Opposition calls for mass protests against Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila fell flat on Monday when only a handful of people showed up, undermining efforts to oust him after his refusal to quit on expiry of his mandate last year. The sparse turnout in the capital Kinshasa and other major cities pointed to …

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U.S. Senator John McCain arrived in Belgrade for a meeting with Serbian Prime Minister and President-Elect Aleksandar Vucic. Later at a news conference, McCain accused Russia of knowing about the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons in a deadly attack in Syria last week. (RFE/RL’s Balkan Service) …

Spanish authorities say they have detained an alleged Russian hacker at the request of the United states. …

Iran’s official IRNA news agency says U.S. plane-maker Boeing will deliver two 777 passenger jets to Iran within the next month, one of the first major U.S. business deals with Iran after years of Western sanctions. …

South Ossetia’s election officials say Anatoly Bibilov, the speaker of the breakaway Georgian region’s parliament, has taken the lead in a presidential election that was rejected by Tbilisi and condemned as “illegitimate” by the United States. …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has again raised the rhetoric against Europe, indicating he will reassess his country’s bid to join the European Union and saying Europe “will pay for what they have done” against the Turkish people …

From October 2015 to September 2016, the United States admitted more than 31,000 refugees from around the world.  To put these newcomers on the road to self-sufficiency, federally-funded programs provide cash assistance as well as job readiness and employment services. Sarah Zaman of VOA’s Urdu Service visited an adult learning program in the state of …

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You can find Fatuma Warsama on the side of the road somewhere between Qardho and Bandar Bayla in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region. The 50-year-old pastoralist and her family traveled for miles across this dry, cracked earth in search of pasture for their goats. “We heard of some signs of rain in this area, so we …

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More and more Americans are interested in consuming healthy food and products. Retailers are feeding this growing demand by offering new products or introducing old ones in brand new ways. Coconut is currently one of the hottest trends in the U.S. food market. VOA’s Faiza Elmasry has more. Faith Lapidus narrates. …

Chuck Berry fans are getting their chance to pay their respects to the rock ’n’ roll visionary, roughly three weeks after his death at age 90 near his hometown of St. Louis.   Fans of the legend behind such classics as Johnny B. Goode, Sweet Little Sixteen and Roll Over Beethoven can file past his …

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Six suspected Islamic militants killed in a standoff with police were planning to attack police officers in Indonesia’s East Java province to seek revenge for the arrest of a radical leader, authorities said Sunday.   The men were cornered in a village in Tuban district Saturday after attempting to shoot a traffic police officer who …

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Norwegian police set off a controlled explosion of a “bomblike device” found in central Oslo Saturday, a suspect is being held in custody, and the security police are investigating, authorities said. A Reuters reporter described a loud bang shortly after the arrival of Oslo’s bomb squad. “The noise from the blast was louder than our …

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The top Russian and Iranian generals have condemned the U.S. missile strike against a Syrian military base and vowed to continue their fight against “terrorists,” which they generally call opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. …

The U.S. military says a soldier was killed in Afghanistan while conducting a mission against an affiliate of the Islamic State (IS) militant group. …

The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least 35 people were killed in two separate air strikes in Syria – with forces on the opposing side of the country’s civil war suspected in each attack. …

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson says he has canceled a visit to Moscow scheduled to take place on April 10, citing developments in Syria, where an alleged chemical-weapons attack prompted the United States to launch missile strikes. …

Before the U.S. attack on a Syrian air base, President Donald Trump accused his predecessor of doing nothing when Syria’s government used chemical weapons against its population in 2013. Trump is right that President Barack Obama issued what amounted to an empty threat of military action. The circumstances, though, were more complicated than Trump described. …

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A proposed addition to Kazakhstan’s Criminal Code is being debated that some believe would be open to broad interpretation and potential abuse. (The views expressed in this blog post do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL.) …

India and Bangladesh signed a slew of agreements on Saturday, including a $4.5 billion concessionary line of credit from India for development projects in Bangladesh, as the South Asian neighbors try to deepen their ties. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart, Sheikh Hasina, held wide-ranging talks in New Delhi, exchanging views on …

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Thousands of people have gathered outside the Serbian government headquarters to protest the election of powerful Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic as the country’s new president. …

Eleven weeks into his presidency, President Donald Trump’s response to the chemical weapons attack in Syria is being seen as evidence that mature voices have taken the helm of the administration’s security decision-making. Veteran observers who spoke to VOA said the apparently successful missile strike on the Syrian air base from which the attack was …

Read more “McMaster’s Influence on Trump Security Policy Seen in Syria Airstrikes”