Category: World

U.S. President Donald Trump has held talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the city of Hamburg, a day before the start of the Group of 20 summit. …

U.S. President Donald Trump is set to hold what may be the most consequential meeting of his 6-month-old presidency — a face-to-face sit-down with Russian leader Vladimir Putin — in an effort aimed at stemming the deepening crisis in U.S.-Russia relations. …

U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to Warsaw strengthens Poland’s position in the European Union, Polish President Andrzej Duda said Thursday. Trump and Duda are to speak to reporters Thursday morning after their meeting at the Royal Castle. It also strengthened Poland’s defense. Wednesday night, the U.S. agreed to sell Patriot missile defense systems to Poland …

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Indonesian police are investigating an allegation of blasphemy against the youngest son of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. Jakarta police spokesman Argo Yuwono said Thursday that police plan to summon Kaesang Pangarep for questioning after receiving a complaint about a video he uploaded to YouTube in May. The video entitled “Ask Daddy for a Project” – …

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Canada is attacking its expanding opioid crisis with an unusual measure: It’s giving addicts a safe place to shoot up.   The government has allowed seven “safe injection sites” to open and a score of others are being considered across the country.   The storefront sites give addicts clean syringes, medical supervision and freedom from …

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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the United States is prepared to cooperate with Russia in Syria, including on military matters, in a renewed gesture at reconciliation ahead of a meeting this week between the two nations’ leaders. …

Washington is considering heeding calls on all sides to appoint an envoy to the Minsk peace negotiations between Russia, Ukraine, and separatists in the east, a senior U.S. State Department official said on July 5. …

Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych announced that he will not participate in a high treason trial against him that is scheduled to resume in Kyiv on July 6. …

Singapore has a near-perfect approach to cybersecurity, but many other rich countries have holes in their defenses and some poorer countries are showing them how it should be done, a U.N. survey showed on Wednesday. Wealth breeds cybercrime, but it does not automatically generate cybersecurity, so governments need to make sure they are prepared, the …

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Japan’s population, excluding resident foreigners, fell at the beginning of this year at its fastest pace since comparable figures were kept in 1968, highlighting the demographic challenge to economic growth. As of Jan. 1, the number of Japanese people fell by a record 308,084 from a year earlier to 125,583,658, marking the eighth consecutive year …

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A French public prosecutor on Wednesday asked a court to sentence the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president to three years in jail on charges of using money plundered from his country to buy Parisian luxury properties and exotic cars. The public prosecutor also said Obiang should pay a 30 million euro fine and have all …

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Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrived in Dushanbe on July 5 for a two-day official visit to Tajikistan. …

The U.S. and Russian presidents are set to meet for the first time on July 7 at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. But U.S. allegations that Moscow interfered in last year’s election have strained efforts to get relations back on track. …

Four close relatives of a former police commander in Tajikistan who joined the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in 2015 have been killed in a clash with Tajik security forces. …

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is scheduled to visit Ukraine on July 9 for talks with President Petro Poroshenko, the Ukrainian president’s office says. …

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Ukrainian police on Tuesday seized the servers of an accounting software firm suspected of spreading a malware virus which crippled computer systems at major companies around the world last week, a senior police official said. The head of Ukraine’s Cyber Police, Serhiy Demedyuk, told Reuters the servers of M.E.Doc – Ukraine’s most popular accounting software …

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A former Mexican governor captured in Guatemala has agreed to his extradition for a second time in two weeks, but it was not immediately clear how soon that could happen.   Javier Duarte was captured in April, six months after resigning as governor of Veracruz.   The two hearings covered distinct charges he faces in …

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Volkswagen (VW) says it is returning to the Iranian market for the first time in 17 years. …

Students of Franciscan theology lined up against scholars of Islamic studies, in a curious soccer match in the Bosnian town of Fojnica — aimed at advocating coexistence in a country still divided by the legacy of the 1990s civil war. (RFE/RL’s Balkan Service) …

Trade ties between Russia and China reversed a declining trend last year and have grown robustly in 2017, China’s leader said as he visited the Kremlin on July 3. …

The conference of South Africa’s ruling party is going so smoothly, it seems, that President Jacob Zuma had time on Monday to wander among statues of past party icons, joke with the public and even try out a virtual reality headset. The carefully choreographed media event was supposed to send a clear message that rifts …

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A U.S. federal appeals court ruled Monday that Environmental  Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt lacks the authority to suspend rules that oil and gas companies monitor and fix methane gas leaks. Two of the three judges on the panel wrote that an order delaying such a rule is the same thing as revoking it. Pruitt …

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Iranian artillery bombed Kurdish militants in northern Iraq on Monday, injuring at least three people and forcing hundreds to flee their homes, Kurdish officials told VOA. The cross-border shelling in Iraqi Kurdistan’s Haji Omaran region targeted positions of Iranian Kurdish rebel groups Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI) and Komala, Kurdish officials said. “The shelling …

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