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Hours after returning from his second presidential foray abroad, Donald Trump and his representatives were out in force Sunday, calling the trip an “outstanding success.” White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, told a television interviewer on “Fox News Sunday” the president was “a star” at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. Trump led the …
The most senior Vatican cleric to be implicated in the Roman Catholic Church child abuse scandal returned to Australia on Monday to stand trial in his home state on multiple charges of sexual assault from years ago. Cardinal George Pell, Pope Francis’ top financial adviser, avoided waiting media when he arrived at Sydney Airport …
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson travels to Kuwait Monday to try to help broker a deal between Qatar and its Gulf neighbors. Kuwait has tried to mediate a resolution between the small monarchy on the Arabian Peninsula and its neighbors, but has been unsuccessful so far. Tillerson met with top Qatari and Kuwaiti officials …
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A pair of Santa Barbara County wildfires quickly spread Saturday, threatening hundreds of homes and forcing evacuations at a popular lakeside campground and a summer camp, where flames temporarily trapped children and counselors, a fire official said. The fire started in the early afternoon, spread to both sides of Highway 154 and was “completely …
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Invasive species are wreaking havoc in waters around the world — from Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades, to Asian carp in the Mississippi River, to turtles native to the US on every continent except Antarctica. Faith Lapidus reports on efforts to control the reptile in Poland. …
Turkish opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu plans to address a rally on July 9 at the end of a month-long “justice” march in which several thousand protesters walked from Ankara to Istanbul. …
The Canadian prime minister defended the government’s apology and multimillion-dollar payment to a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. …
German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended her decision to hold the Group of 20 (G20) summit in a densely populated urban area, even has she condemned the violent demonstrations against the event in the northern city of Hamburg. …
Italian authorities have arrested a Chechen man suspected of fighting in Syria with the Islamic State (IS) extremist group and of being involved in a deadly 2014 attack in Russia’s war-scarred southern Chechnya region. …
The leaders of Germany, France, and Russia have agreed that the Minsk agreements on ending the conflict in eastern Ukraine “should be comprehensively implemented,” a German official tells RFE/RL. …
An Iraqi military spokesman says U.S.-backed Iraqi government forces have retaken control of the medieval Old City of Mosul, the last area under the control of Islamic State (IS) militants in the city that previously served as the extremist group’s stronghold in Iraq. …
Firefighters and police in Italy Saturday pulled the eighth and final body from the rubble of a five-story apartment building that partially collapsed in a seaside town south of Naples. The digging through the debris for victims ended more than 24 hours after the residential building collapsed in the early morning. About 80 firefighters …
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has named former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker to serve as Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations. The announcement came ahead of Tillerson’s first official visit to Kyiv Sunday, where he will meet with President Petro Poroshenko to discuss ways to help end the conflict in eastern Ukraine and support …
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Ukraine was among the issues raised when U.S. President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday. And Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will be taking the issue next to Ukraine’s capital and a meeting with the country’s president. VOA State Department correspondent Nike Ching previews Tillerson’s trip (narrated by VOA’s Steve Redisch.) …
A pre-emptive military strike may be among the “pretty severe things” President Donald Trump says he is considering for North Korea, but it’s a step so fraught with risk that it ranks as among the unlikeliest options. Even a so-called surgical strike aimed at the North’s partially hidden nuclear and missile force is unlikely to …
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A federal judge has extended a stay of deportation for Iraqi nationals, blocking their removal for another two weeks. U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith in Detroit on Thursday halted deportations nationwide until July 24, saying he needs more time to decide whether he has jurisdiction in the case. The judge had issued an injunction against …
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A South Carolina prison inmate has been captured — for a second time — after an elaborate jail break. Authorities say Jimmy Causey may have utilized wire cutters dropped from a drone as well as smuggled cellphones, guns and nearly $50,000 in his latest escape, which went unnoticed for 18 hours and lasted two days …
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held their first face-to-face meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. Their discussion came amid a deepening rift between the countries over the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine, as well as alleged Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election. (AP, Reuters) …
The United States, Japan, and South Korea have condemned the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test by North Korea this week as a “major escalation.” …
Officials in the separatist-held Ukrainian city of Luhansk say two explosions have killed one person and wounded five others. …
Disused military tunnels snake beneath the crater of Diamond Head, out of sight of the tourists lounging near the volcano on Waikiki Beach but very much on the mind of Gene Ward, a state representative from Honolulu. Alarmed by North Korea’s latest missile tests and claims that its newly developed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) can …
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A federal judge on Thursday halted the deportation of all Iraqi nationals detained during recent immigration sweeps across the United States until at least July 24, extending a stay that was originally set to expire Monday. U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith in Detroit said there was “good cause” to extend the stay, which was sought …
Hobby Lobby, the arts-and-crafts chain whose devout Christian owners won a landmark Supreme Court ruling on religious freedom, is caught up in an antiquities-smuggling scandal that has opened the company to accusations of hypocrisy. The Oklahoma City-based business agreed to pay a $3 million fine Wednesday over its role in what federal prosecutors said was …
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Mikhail Gorbachev has urged U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin to restore trust between their two countries and said their upcoming meeting should emulate the 1986 Reykjavik summit of the Soviet leader and Ronald Reagan. …