Category: World

Powerful storms have hit parts of the United States in the past two days, killing about 20 people and causing much property damage. Zlatica Hoke has more. …

The Trump administration is moving quickly to implement new foreign and domestic policies and reverse some old ones. During the first official briefing on Monday, the new White House press secretary revealed some areas in which this new administration may be taking a different approach. White House correspondent Mary Alice Salinas has more. …

President Donald Trump’s White House spokesman vowed Monday that the new administration intends “never to lie” to the news media. Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s comments came in the wake of a brewing clash between the new president and the journalists assigned to cover him during the first few days of his administration. VOA national correspondent …

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The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that the Belarusian men’s canoe and kayak team was wrongly banned from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on doping charges. …

Britain has indicated that is will seek a so-called “hard” exit from the European Union, likely to include leaving the Single Market, the world’s largest free trade bloc. The country is looking for new trading partners around the world, but  the government will find it difficult to balance voters’ demands for lower immigration with the …

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The prime minister of Mauritius has officially handed over the office to his son in a controversial transition of power. Outgoing Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth, 86, said Monday, “The job of prime minister involves great responsibility. It is a great burden. I have carried it, but now it is time to make way for the …

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Moldovan President Igor Dodon has said he does not believe his country will ever be part of the European Union and that in order to be fully unified, it is necessary “to find common ground with Russia.” …

Britain’s envoy in Kabul said he expects the United States and NATO allies to “stay strong and stay long” in Afghanistan. In an interview with RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan, Ambassador Dominic Jermey also said that Britain sees better relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan as a top priority this year. …

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman says the Kremlin expects the date for a phone call between Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump to be agreed soon. …

Donald Trump’s U.S. presidency is just a few days old, but an ethics watchdog is ready to file a lawsuit against him for allegedly violating an obscure clause in the Constitution.  The progressive Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, says it intends to file the lawsuit Monday in federal court in Manhattan. …

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U.S. President Donald Trump has said he “recognizes the rights” of the hundreds of thousands of people around the world who protested in support of a “Women’s March” in Washington against him. …

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

Somalia’s Upper House of parliament has elected its speaker on Sunday, the last major step toward holding the presidential election that has been delayed several times already. The 54-member Upper House elected senator Abdi Hashi Abdullahi with 43 out of 51 votes. His opponent, Mustaf Mohamed Qodah, got only nine votes. Former CEO of Goobjoog …

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Germany must brace itself for turbulent times under U.S. President Donald Trump, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Sunday, adding that free trade and trans-Atlantic cooperation to fight extremism and terrorism were key for Berlin. Steinmeier, who in August said Trump was a “Hassprediger” or “hate preacher”, wrote in the mass-circulation Bild newspaper that some …

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Valery Rodos’s father was one of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s most brutal and notorious executioners. He has spent decades searching his soul for the ways that the past shaped his life. …

Local officials in Yemen have said at least two suspected Al-Qaeda militants were killed in what they said was a U.S. drone strike. …

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence began their first full day in charge of the U.S. government by attending an interfaith prayer service at Washington National Cathedral on Saturday, where the clergy spoke of compassion and diversity. The service began with calls to prayer by the cathedral’s canon, the Reverend Rosemarie Duncan; a …

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he plans to meet with newly installed U.S. President Donald Trump soon to discuss what he sees as the dangers from Iran and its “cruel” government. …

Iranian rescuers on January 21 removed three more bodies from the rubble of a 17-story commercial building that collapsed in Tehran two days earlier. …

U.S. President Donald Trump has visited the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia — pledging his support for the agency and telling about 400 employees there that “I am with you 1,000 percent.” …

A look at more than 50 years of marches in Washington, by the numbers: 1995 — Organized and hosted by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, an estimated 850,000 to 1 million* African-American men came together for the Million Man March to rally for unity and revitalization of African-American communities. 2000 — More than 750,000 …

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Thousands of people protested Saturday in the Kosovo capital of Pristina to urge France to release their former prime minister who was detained there on a Serbian arrest warrant. The protesters — mostly opposition party members and former guerrilla fighters of the 1998-1999 war for independence from Serbia — consider Ramush Haradinaj’s detention illegal. Haradinaj, …

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A bus carrying school children crashed in northern Italy overnight and burst into flames, killing 14 of the young passengers, Italian media reported Saturday. The bus was carrying students, mostly boys from Hungary between the ages of 14 and 18, when it struck a pylon and caught fire on a motorway near Verona shortly before …

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Hundreds of thousands of people at the National Mall in Washington looked on Friday as Donald Trump became the 45th U.S. president, and a far larger audience around the country and throughout the world witnessed the event through live broadcasts. VOA reporters talked to people around the globe who said they are looking at the …

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