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French voters are expected to hand President Emmanuel Macron a landslide majority in parliament Sunday, a second election triumph for him after his presidential victory and one which should allow him to embark on deep social and economic reforms. Polls have opened for the second round of parliamentary elections. Just a month after the 39-year-old ex-banker …
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No modern navigation instrumentation guided a Polynesian voyaging canoe as it followed the horizon during a three-year journey around the globe. About a dozen crewmembers for each leg of the voyage relied only on their understanding of nature’s cues — ocean swells, stars, wind, birds — and their own naau, or gut, to sail across …
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Andre Ward scored an eighth-round technical knockout over Russia’s Sergei Kovalev to defend his three light-heavyweight titles. …
Bodies of at least some of the seven sailors missing since a U.S. Navy destroyer collided with a container ship off the coast of Japan have been found in flooded compartments of the ailing ship, Navy officials say. …
The nomination of candidates in Kyrgyzstan’s presidential election officially started on June 15, and the vote already promises to be one of the most interesting and exciting elections yet seen in Central Asia. (The views expressed in this blog post do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL.) …
The UN Children’s Fund warns three-quarters of a million children in Eastern Ukraine are at risk of water-borne diseases as fighting threatens to cut off their safe water supply. The United Nations estimates around 10,000 people have been killed and more than 23,500 injured since fighting in Eastern Ukraine erupted between the government and Russian-backed …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said it is too early to speak about retaliation against a possible new round of sanctions that the United States is considering on imposing on Moscow. …
Djibouti has accused Eritrea of occupying disputed territory along their border after Qatar withdrew a peacekeeping force earlier this week. Djiboutian officials say Eritrean troops took control of Dumeira Mountain and Dumeira Island on Wednesday, a day after Qatar removed 450 soldiers who had controlled the territories for the past seven years. Qatar did not …
President Donald Trump is picking simple over swanky this weekend. Nearly five months into his presidency, Trump is heading to Camp David, the government-owned retreat in Maryland’s Catoctin Mountains, for the first time. A frequent weekend traveler, Trump has favored his palatial residences in Florida and New Jersey over the wooded hideaway used by many …
A U.S. air strike in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangahar Province killed the Islamic State (IS) extremist group’s director of media, U.S. forces have said. …
President Donald Trump continued a campaign on Twitter on Friday against the investigations into possible links between his campaign and Russia. Trump said he was “being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt.” It was unclear whether the president was referring to Special …
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Like most teenagers in Mosul, Iraq, Dhyab Idris Abdulghani dropped out of school once Islamic State (IS) militants took over and changed textbooks into pro-violence treatises. During their nearly three-year rule of his area, he sold ice cream and juice from a cart on the street. Then the war for Mosul came to their neighborhood. …
The United Nations refugee agency reports more than 100,000 Iraqis may still be held hostage by Islamic State militants in western Mosul. The UNHCR warns conditions in the old city are worsening for the civilians trapped there. The Iraqi military offensive to retake Mosul from Islamic State was launched on October 17. The battle got …
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The Vetevendosje party moves from the fringe to front and center as Kosovo’s so-called war faction pays the price for corruption. …
Current and past world leaders praised former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl as a “friend of freedom” and the “very essence of Europe.” …
Uzbek human rights defender and opposition activist Nuriddin Jumaniyazov died in prison last year, a human rights activist says. …
American tourists strolling the ample squares and narrow streets of colonial Havana may not know it, but from novelist Ernest Hemingway’s famed Floridita bar to Sloppy Joe’s eatery, they are probably patronizing businesses owned by Cuba’s military. It is that lucrative line of business that President Donald Trump will target when he rolls out his …
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A wide-ranging survey shows that public approval of the European Union has rebounded strongly compared with a year ago but that many people nonetheless think their own national governments — and not the EU — should have the say over trade and immigration. The poll results from the U.S.-based Pew Research Center show that majorities …
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Pakistan aims to tighten security for the thousands of Chinese nationals working in the country after a Chinese couple was abducted and later allegedly killed by Islamic State raising safety concerns about major economic projects that Beijing has undertaken to benefit both countries. Pakistani officials said they will form thousands-strong police protection forces and keep …
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Iranian forces have killed two suspected members of an armed Sunni Muslim group in southeastern Iran and arrested five others, a minister said, accusing Saudi Arabia of “sponsoring terrorists” in the country. …
Two Russian opposition figures from Aleksei Navalny’s party asked for political asylum at the Ukrainian border on June 15, Ukraine’s Border Guard Service said. …
Vladimir Putin’s annual call-in show is billed by the Kremlin as a way for the Russian president to connect with average Russians. So why did he take a question from a “some dude in Mesa, Arizona who’s angry?” …
Kosovo charged nine men on June 15 with plotting terror attacks in Kosovo and at a World Cup soccer match between Israel and Albania last year. …
Two men have been arrested in connection to a brawl between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security guards and protesters in Washington and charges are planned against a dozen guards, officials said on June 14. …