U.S. President Barack Obama has lifted sanctions on Myanmar, saying the Southeast Asian country has made substantial advances to promote democracy. Obama signed an executive order Friday that overturns a…
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continue readingWhen the young Australian cervical cancer patient learned she had to lose her womb in order to survive, she proposed something audacious to the doctor who was treating her: She…
continue readingUnited Nations and international aid agencies are rushing to help tens of thousands of Haitians devastated by Hurricane Matthew, one of the strongest hurricanes to hit the Caribbean in recent…
continue readingRussia’s parliament has ratified a treaty with Damascus that allows Russian troops to stay indefinitely in Syria. …
continue readingAn appellate court in Azerbaijan has rejected an appeal by investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova, who had asked for the removal from her record of charges for illegal entrepreneurship. …
continue readingU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has called for a war crimes investigation into the devastating offensive being waged by Syrian and Russian forces on the city of Aleppo. …
continue readingGeorgians go to the polls on October 8 to decide whether to stick with the ruling Georgian Dream party or give controversial ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili’s allies a second chance to…
continue readingCrowds gathered at the offices of the newspaper where Anna Politkovskaya worked to mark 10 years since her brutal murder. (RFE/RL’s Russian Service) …
continue readingResidents of the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, where government forces have been battling Taliban militants for days, are facing a humanitarian crisis. …
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continue readingThe Russian military is considering the possibility of regaining its Soviet-era bases in Cuba and Vietnam, the Defense Ministry said. …
continue readingFinland and the United States have signed a defense cooperation pact on increased military collaboration amid alleged violations of Finnish airspace by Russian fighter jets. …
continue readingA U.S. government watchdog is asking the Pentagon to explain reports about tens of thousands of nonexistent troops on the payrolls of Afghanistan’s security forces. …
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continue readingWhat happened when our photographer, Amos Chapple, went hunting for mammoth tusks in Siberia… …
continue readingIt has been a week of rising tensions in Srebrenica. The eastern Bosnian town, which gained global notoriety and became a symbol of Bosnian Muslim suffering following the slaughter of…
continue readingThe E! Network has shut down production on “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” since Kim Kardashian West was held up in Paris. A spokesperson for the network tells Variety…
continue readingThe Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos is likely to give a boost to the country’s efforts to end a half-century of hostilities with leftist rebels.…
continue readingRussian President Vladimir Putin is due to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on October 10. …
continue readingThe U.S. unemployment rate rose slightly to hit five percent in September. Friday’s report from the Labor Department says the economy had a net gain of 156,000 jobs. The unemployment…
continue readingUkrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko, who was detained in Russia on September 30, has been charged with espionage. …
continue readingNobel laureate Desmond Tutu shed tears of gratitude on his 85th birthday on Friday in South Africa, where he presided over a cathedral Mass despite his poor health. Separately, in…
continue readingBelarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka says his country is negotiating with Iran about purchasing oil. …
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