More than 100 people gathered in front of Macedonia’s parliament to protest against a draft law to extend the official use of Albanian language to the entire country, as lawmakers started debating the bill. …

European lawmakers have called for a parliamentary investigation into an alleged secret fund operated by Azerbaijan’s ruling elite to pay off European politicians and make luxury purchases. …

Mikheil Saakashvili has told a rally in western Ukraine that he had returned to the country to help solve the country’s “political crisis” and that he intends to travel to Kyiv next week. …

The Cambodian Space Project, long on the forefront of a local rock’n’roll revival, is a band making good with their pre-Khmer Rouge Cambodia sound. The Cambodian-Australian group, kicked off a mini-U.S. tour on Tuesday with a performance at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage. Channthy Kak, 38, also known as Srey Thy, said she was honored …

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More than 45 people have died and millions are without power since Hurricane Irma swept through the Caribbean and southeastern United States. Relief efforts are now in high gear, with the U.S. military answering the call for help. VOA Pentagon correspondent Carla Babb has the latest. …

Tens of thousands of women who survived enslavement and rape during the 1992-95 Bosnian war are still being denied justice, according to a report from Amnesty International. A quarter of a century after the conflict began, rights activists say many of the survivors are living in poverty and have lost all hope the perpetrators will …

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A Russian fighter for the Islamic State extremist group who was captured in Mosul has been sentenced to death by hanging, Iraqi authorities say. …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated his opposition to the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement during a press conference as he visited Argentina on September 12. …

Ads that Russian operatives purchased on Facebook during last year’s presidential election actively promoted then-Republican candidate Donald Trump’s anti-immigration campaign and other conservative causes, U.S. media are reporting. …

The U.N. Security Council will hold an urgent meeting this week on continuing violence in western Myanmar that has forced nearly 400,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee across the border into Bangladesh. The meeting, which has been scheduled for Wednesday, was requested by Britain and Sweden Monday after Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the U.N.’s human rights chief, …

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The Saudi-led coalition waging an air campaign against Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the north is killing children in what amounts to war crimes, an international rights group said Tuesday. Human Rights Watch released a detailed report documenting the deaths of 26 children killed in five airstrikes since June. The group said that despite coalition promises …

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Representatives of Zimbabwe’s first lady say a young woman who accused her of assault was the actual aggressor, allegedly attacking Grace Mugabe with a knife while drunk, according to a court document filed in South Africa.      The court papers denying any wrongdoing by Mugabe were submitted August 17 by Zimbabwean diplomats on behalf …

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A series of anonymous bomb threats phoned to authorities in cities across Russia has prompted evacuations at schools, shopping malls, theaters, and universities since September 11. …

Turkey has signed a deal with Russia to buy S-400 antiaircraft missile systems in its first major weapons purchase from Moscow. …

Saudi Arabia said on September 12 that it foiled an Islamic State plot to bomb its defense ministry headquarters, while separately dismantling an alleged spy ring in the kingdom …

Russia says Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has met with U.S. Undersecretary of State Thomas Shannon in Finland’s capital, Helsinki, to address sore spots in Moscow and Washington’s relations. …

President John F. Kennedy’s granddaughter and Caroline Kennedy’s daughter Tatiana Schlossberg has gotten married at the family’s Martha’s Vineyard home. The New York Times reports the 27-year-old Schlossberg married 28-year-old George Moran on Saturday with former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick officiating. The couple met in college at Yale. Schlossberg was an environmental reporter for the …

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