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The White House’s 2018 budget plan for the U.S. Department of Energy includes $120 million for nuclear waste programs, including the restart of licensing for Nevada’s Yucca Mountain, a project stalled for years by lawsuits and local opposition. The move signals that President Donald Trump may consider that nuclear waste solutions could extend the lives …
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Latin American countries are becoming more reliant on costly fuel imports amid floundering efforts to bolster domestic oil output and expand refinery capacity. Incomplete reform projects and budget cuts that have stalled investments are aggravating the situation for many Latin American countries. For refiners in the United States, it is a bonus: They have in …
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A U.K.-based watchdog and local paramedics are reporting that many worshippers have been killed and dozens injured in air strikes on a mosque in a rebel-held village in northern Syria. …
More than 1.2 million first-time asylum seekers were registered in EU member states in 2016, the European Union says. …
The Republican and Democratic leaders of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said they have seen no indications that President Donald Trump’s New York offices were wiretapped before or during the 2016 election campaign. …
A North Korean hacking group known as Lazarus was likely behind a recent cyber campaign targeting organizations in 31 countries, following high-profile attacks on Bangladesh Bank, Sony and South Korea, cybersecurity firm Symantec Corp said Wednesday. Symantec said in a blog that researchers have uncovered four pieces of digital evidence suggesting the Lazarus group was …
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U.S. President Donald Trump has vowed to get tough on trade partners like China, Mexico and Germany. Now his Treasury chief, Steven Mnuchin, will get his first opportunity to confront them all in one room. The meeting of the 20 most powerful economies’ finance ministers in Germany this week is likely to be dominated by …
China and Saudi Arabia Thursday signed memorandums of understanding and letters of intent potentially worth about $65 billion during Saudi King Salman’s visit to Beijing, a senior Chinese diplomat said. Deputy Chinese Foreign Minister Zhang Ming said the agreements involved investment, energy, space and other areas, but did not give details. The octogenarian monarch, who …
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A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on March 15 proposed providing another 2,500 visas to Afghans who worked for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, often at the risk of their own lives. …
The White House is expected to present a budget plan for 2018 on March 16 that slashes spending on foreign aid, the U.S. State Department, and environmental programs to make way for a big boost in military spending. …
Turkey’s foreign minister threatened on March 15 to cancel a landmark agreement curbing the flow of migrants and refugees into the European Union, the latest in an escalating war of words between Ankara and Brussels. …
Dutch voters have been casting ballots in an election that is considered an indicator of anti-immigrant and nationalist feeling and comes amid a dispute with Turkey. …
Newly appointed U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will visit South Korea later this week at a time of significant political change that could complicate the alliance between Washington and Seoul. VOA’s Brian Padden has more from Seoul. …
The release of two pages of President Donald Trump’s 2005 tax returns has sparked a legal dispute, with the White House and a major television network squaring off over whether a law was broken. The White House said MSNBC’s publication of the pages Tuesday night violated a federal law that prohibits the unauthorized release of …
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Syrian state media say a suicide bombing at a courthouse in the capital, Damascus, has killed at least 25 people. …
At least 25 people were killed Wednesday in a suicide bomb attack inside the main Damascus justice building, according to Syria’s official news agency. The attack occurred inside the Palace of Justice, a courthouse in central Damascus, state media said. No other details were immediately available. The suicide bombing Wednesday comes just less than a …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his government to conclude an agreement to effectively incorporate the military of Georgia’s breakaway South Ossetia region into the Russian armed forces’ command structure. …
U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabian Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met Tuesday at the White House to discuss what the Saudi Press Agency said was “the strengthening of bilaterial relations between the two countries and regional issues of mutual interest.” It was the highest level visit to Washington by a Saudi royal …
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Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has ordered that “blasphemous” content on social media websites be removed or blocked. …
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to be in New York on Wednesday for a Broadway play about Newfoundlanders who opened their doors to thousands of passengers who descended on the town of Gander the day U.S. airspace was shut on 9/11. More than 200 flights were diverted to Canada. Little-used Gander became the second …
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Turkey has criticized a ruling by the European Union’s top court that companies in the EU can ban employees from wearing religious or political symbols including the Islamic headscarf. …
Poland plans to seek the extradition of an American on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity in the World War II deaths of 44 Polish villagers, Poland’s government-affiliated history institute said Monday. The man, identified as Michael K., is suspected of ordering the killings in 1944 in eastern Poland when he was a commander in …
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