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Police in Myanmar’s main city fired warning shots overnight to break up a confrontation between dozens of Buddhists and Muslims that left at least one person injured. It was the latest manifestation of years of rising anti-Muslim sentiment in the predominantly Buddhist nation, where ultra-nationalist Buddhist monks and their supporters forced the closure of two …
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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned the killing of four peacekeepers in the Central African Republic, following an attack on their convoy by suspected anti-Balaka militants. MINUSCA, the U.N. mission in the C.A.R., issued a statement Tuesday confirming the death of one Cambodian peacekeeper and later added it was “deeply saddened to confirm that three …
Executive directors from the World Bank recently approved a 50 million dollar grant to provide “direct food assistance to counter starvation and prevent hunger-related deaths during the on-going famine in South Sudan.” The money will help only some of the 4.9 million people in that country who are classified as food-insecure. To the west, in …
An inquiry from a prominent Republican rival of U.S. President Donald Trump about whether Trump had business dealings with Russia prompted an unusual response from the White House on May 9. …
The European Union’s top diplomat has criticized the United States for slashing its United Nations funding by $640 million, saying peaceful solutions to global problems are as important as military ones. …
U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the White House on May 10 to discuss Syria and other international issues, White House officials have said. …
The first federal appeals court to hear a challenge to President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban appeared unconvinced that it should ignore the Republican’s repeated promises on the campaign trail to bar Muslims from entering the country. An attorney for the president urged the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday to focus on …
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Plenty can go wrong when foreign money mixes with immigration green cards, real estate deals and political connections. Revelations that the sister of Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, promoted a program offering a path to U.S. citizenship to Chinese backers in a Kushner family project bring new scrutiny to a foreign …
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South Korea’s ousted leader is expected to spend Tuesday’s presidential election alone in a solitary detention cell without any visitors. Park Geun-hye, a former president’s daughter and president of South Korea until she was removed by the Constitutional Court on March 10, is being held at a detention center on corruption charges. All …
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Russia’s Yeltsin Center has been honored by Europe for raising questions and provoking debate about democracy and freedom of speech, but a popular director and fervent Kremlin supporter believes the presidential museum is destroying the minds of the young. …
Senior officials in President Donald Trump’s administration and the U.S. military are recommending sending at least 3,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan to fight Taliban militants, U.S. media report. …
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It’s not a movie set, but visitors to Disney World’s new Pandora-World of Avatar land are in for a cinematic experience. The 12-acre land, inspired by the “Avatar” movie, opens in Florida in late May at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom. It cost a half-billion dollars to build. The marquee attraction is Flight of …
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Centrist Emmanuel Macron’s victory over Marine Le Pen in France’s presidential elections means one of the EU”s key nations has for now avoided a brush with nationalist politics. But as VOA Europe Correspondent Luis Ramirez reports from Paris, there are questions on whether Macron – who ran as an independent – will have a mandate …
Life expectancy in the United States depends on what county one lives in, a new study suggests. According to the study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in Seattle, “The gap between counties with the highest and lowest life expectancies is larger now than it was back …
A U.S. Senate panel has begun hearing testimony from a former Justice Department official deeply involved in the question of contacts between Russian officials and former associates of President Donald Trump. …
The United States is calling on Kosovo to ratify a border-demarcation deal with Montenegro, saying the domestic political gridlock over the deal is damaging the Balkan nation’s international credibility. …
War and famine have forced more than 2 million children in South Sudan to flee their homes, creating the most worrying refugee crisis in the world, the United Nations said on Monday. The civil war in the oil-producing country began two years after it won independence from neighboring Sudan, when President Salva Kiir fired his …
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Jailed opposition Venezuelan politician Leopoldo Lopez is well and is urging street demonstrators to keep up massive anti-government protests, his wife said on Sunday after her first visit with the former presidential hopeful in over a month, putting to rest rumors of his ill health. With tensions already high after over a month of street …
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Iran says it would hit back at nearly all of regional rival Saudi Arabia’s territory with the exception of Islam’s holiest places if the Saudis do anything “ignorant.” …
Germany’s president said Sunday that despite recent disagreement the foundation of his country’s relations with Israel remains solid – a reference to a recent diplomatic spat over an Israeli anti-occupation group. Frank-Walter Steinmeier is in Israel on his first foreign trip outside Europe since he was elected president earlier this year. It comes two weeks …
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The leader of Islamic State in Afghanistan was killed in a joint Afghan-U.S. operation last month in the eastern province of Nangarhar, officials from the two countries said on May 7. …
Ukraine has blocked entry to the country of two Russian journalists who were going to Kyiv to cover the Eurovision Song Contest. …
Polls have opened in France, culminating a presidential election campaign that many French say is the country’s most acrimonious and contentious in its modern history, one that could decide whether it stays the course of globalization or adopts a new, separate path outside of the European Union. In a race dominated by the issues of …