Eighty-six percent of the registered Muslim voters in the U.S. say they plan to vote in the Nov. 8 presidential election in the midst of a perceived rise in Islamophobia,…
continue readingThe Maldives said Thursday that it would leave the Commonwealth, weeks after the organization warned it could be suspended because of its lack of progress in promoting the rule of…
continue readingA former Brazilian senator was sentenced Thursday to 19 years in prison for corruption, money laundering and obstruction of justice in the investigation of kickbacks at state-run oil company Petrobras.…
continue readingAbout 70 sub-Saharan African migrants forced their way over a barbed wire barrier into Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla Thursday. They ran to a local immigration center where they…
continue readingHungarian officials recently declared several British cities “no-go zones” where immigrants, many of them Muslim, dominate, using them as examples of why Hungary should not accept migrants or refugees. One…
continue readingChildren outgrow their shoes quickly. That often leaves kids who live in abject poverty no option but to walk around barefoot. An estimated 300 million children around the world don’t…
continue readingFemale genital mutilation has been widely denounced by global and non-governmental organizations. It is a practice that is deeply rooted in some cultures. But a new study indicates attitudes can…
continue readingAlready more than a decade behind schedule, and billions of dollars overbudget, the project once seen as Kazakhstan’s ticket to El Dorado is now just hoping to alleviate some of…
continue readingThe Pakistani government has defended its decision to bar a prominent Pakistani journalist from leaving the country because of an article he wrote about a rift between the government and…
continue readingAn American scholar in Moldova has spent the past year getting to know and helping the country’s Roma community. During her time there, Tiffany Richards encountered instances of racism, but…
continue readingThe United Nations General Assembly has elected Antonio Guterres as the next UN secretary-general. …
continue readingRussian lawmaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky, long known for his fiery threats and outlandish bluster, has some advice for American voters: choose Donald Trump or there will be nuclear war. …
continue readingU.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reportedly apologized to a Serbian magazine for the United States’ role in the 1999 bombing of former Yugoslavia, but his campaign is denying the…
continue readingSerbian and Russian airmen are staging joint exercises at Serbia’s Batajnica airbase, as part of ongoing military cooperation between the two countries. (RFE/RL’s Balkan Service) …
continue readingRussian and Syrian air strikes have hit the Syrian city of Aleppo, just days before world powers are to meet for talks aimed at reestablishing a cease-fire in the war-torn…
continue readingIran has sent two warships to the Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Yemen, where the United States conducted missile attacks. …
continue readingActivists in Britain are challenging Prime Minister Theresa May’s authority to trigger an exit from the European Union without a parliamentary vote. The High Court took up the legal challenge…
continue readingRussia says it will sign an agreement with India later this week for Moscow to deliver the advanced S-400 missile-defense system to New Delhi. …
continue readingKing Bhumibol Adulyadej was the world’s longest-reigning and the country’s revered monarch. Bhumibol, a constitutional monarch with no formal political role, was widely regarded as Thailand’s unifying figure. …
continue readingRussia says it has completed the delivery of S-300 air-defense missile systems to Iran. …
continue readingDuring a visit to Tbilisi, Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev has said his country supports Georgia’s territorial integrity. …
continue readingThailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, has died after 70 years on the throne. …
continue readingThe world’s longest reigning monarch is dead. The king of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej, died at age 88 on Thursday, according to the bureau of the royal household. The king had…
continue readingU.S. songwriter Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” …
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