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Volunteers in New Zealand managed to refloat about 100 surviving pilot whales Saturday and are hoping they will swim back out to sea after more than 400 of the creatures swam aground at a remote beach. Department of Conservation Golden Bay Operations Manager Andrew Lamason said about 300 whales died, but others are swimming …
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Every year, dozens of talented American students are selected to join the Grammy Camp in Los Angeles, where the annual Grammy Awards are presented each year. For a week, the Grammy campers hone their musical skills and perform alongside famous professional musicians, including Indonesian jazz piano prodigy Joey Alexander. The 13-year-old is one of this …
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Parents and teachers deal with unruly children every day. While some send kids to a quiet room, others resort to corporal punishment, which is banned in schools in most U.S. states. Now, a school in Baltimore, Maryland, is trying a novel technique to discipline disruptive children: meditation. Sarah Zaman reports on how, simply taking a …
Read more “Meditation Helps Baltimore Schoolchildren, One Breath at a Time”
Germany’s Defense Minister said U.S. demands that NATO partners increase defense spending are “fair,” while her U.S. counterpart praised Germany’s role in fighting the war in Afghanistan. …
Ljubisa Beara, a former Bosnian Serb officer convicted of genocide by a United Nations war crimes court for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, has died in a German prison, authorities said. …
U.S. Democrats called for an investigation into whether White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with Moscow’s ambassador to the United States while President Barack Obama was still in office. …
White House national security adviser Michael Flynn privately discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with Moscow’s ambassador to the United States during the month before President Donald Trump took office, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. Citing unnamed current and former U.S. officials, the Post said some senior U.S. officials interpreted the contacts as a “potentially …
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The Kremlin says Russian air strikes that killed three Turkish soldiers in Syria were launched based on coordinates provided by the Turkish military. …
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians rallied on February 10 to mark the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. …
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan approved a constitutional reform bill, paving the way for an executive presidential system, his office said Friday, and a deputy prime minister said a referendum on the issue was expected April 16. Erdogan says the reform will provide stability at a time of turmoil and prevent a return to the fragile …
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Four people have been arrested in and around Montpellier, southern France, on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, police and justice sources said on Friday. Those in custody included a 22 year-old man and his 16 year-old girlfriend, both known to authorities for connections with radical Islam, after authorities found TATP explosives and other bomb-making …
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Authorities in Zimbabwe Thursday released a pastor facing a charge of trying to subvert President Robert Mugabe’s government, a day after the country’s High Court had granted him release on $300 bail. Upon pastor Evan Mawarire’s release, journalists outside Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison were begging him to get out of the vehicle he was in …
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Senator Jeff Sessions was sworn in as the next U.S. attorney general Thursday at the White House, where he stressed that the U.S. needs a “lawful system of immigration” that serves the interest of the American people. President Donald Trump lauded Sessions with praise as he congratulated him on being sworn in, calling the new …
Construction of the Dakota Access pipeline under a North Dakota reservoir has begun and the full pipeline should be operational within three months, the developer of the long-delayed project said Thursday, even as an American Indian tribe filed a legal challenge to block the work and protect its water supply. The Army granted Energy Transfer …
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U.S. President Donald Trump has assailed veteran Senator John McCain after the Arizona Republican disputed the administration’s claim that the recent military raid in Yemen was a “success.” …
A North Korean defector who has lived in Russia for nearly two decades is facing a possibly deadly deportation. …
In a region where manmade catastrophes can seem as likely as any natural disaster, the idea of mandatory military service was not necessarily well-received by everyone. (The views expressed in this blog post do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL.) …
A Guatemalan Supreme Court judge was arrested on Wednesday accused of influence trafficking, prosecutors said, in the latest anti-corruption drive in the Central American country. Blanca Stalling was walking in the capital, Guatemala City, when she was arrested while wearing a red wig and sunglasses, according to Julia Barrera, a spokeswoman for the Attorney General’s …
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Yemen said on Wednesday it had not suspended counterterrorism operations with the U.S. government, despite controversy over a U.S. commando raid on al-Qaida militants in which several civilians were also killed. The raid in al-Bayda province, approved by new U.S. President Donald Trump, resulted in a gun battle that left one Navy SEAL dead and …
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Sri Lanka says it needs more time to fulfill promises given to the U.N. human rights body to investigate war crime allegations from the nation’s long civil war, which ended nearly eight years ago. Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera told foreign correspondents late Tuesday that the government will seek more time at the next U.N. human …
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Elena is a human rights defender in a country where the government has not shown much regard for the rights of citizens for a quarter of a century. …
Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL’s broadcast region and beyond for the sixth week of 2017. …
Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza, Jr., who has been hospitalized in critical condition for the second time in two years in what his family and friends suspect was a deliberate poisoning, has awoken from a coma and improved noticeably, his lawyer and wife told RFE/RL. …