The Syrian government’s indiscriminate shelling of civilians in Aleppo in the past two weeks has sparked international outrage. President Bashar al-Assad’s army backed by Russia and Iran continued bombing parts…
continue readingJamaica and Haiti continue to encourage residents in vulnerable areas to evacuate as the Caribbean begins to get hit by powerful Hurricane Matthew. Haiti’s interior minister Francois Anick Joseph said…
continue readingBrazil’s Workers’ Party – PT – lost big Sunday when Brazilians voted in the first local elections since Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment. Brazilians in 5,568 municipalities voted for mayors and city…
continue readingPatrick Reed shook his fists with fury for every big putt he made. Phil Mickelson leaped higher than when he won his first Masters. Ryan Moore delivered the final point…
continue readingPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte apologized “profoundly and deeply” to the world’s Jewish community Sunday for comparing his war on drug traffickers to the Nazi Holocaust of World War II. “I…
continue readingAn overwhelming majority of Hungarians who voted in a referendum appear to have rejected the European Union migrant resettlement quotas. …
continue reading“We must plant the sea and herd its animals,” the late ocean researcher Jacques Cousteau said more than 40 years ago, “using the sea as farmers instead of hunters.” Scientists…
continue readingAmerican voters may now have greater insight into a question that has dogged Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump all year: what do his tax returns reveal about the real estate…
continue readingThe campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump traded fierce accusations after The New York Times newspaper published what appears to be a portion of the Republican nominee’s 1995 federal…
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continue readingThe United States narrowly missed its refugee cap for the fiscal year, closing out 12 months of political turbulence over admissions policies just five people short of the administration’s target…
continue readingHarvard Business School has moved to the Big Apple. Well, sort of. VOA’s Tina Rinh has the story. …
continue readingIndia, one of the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, has formally joined the Paris agreement on tackling climate change. …
continue readingA report from marine experts says the United States, which lags behind many other countries in fish farming, would benefit from increasing its aquaculture, including off the California coast. Mike…
continue readingTurkish police arrested a brother of the U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen who is accused of masterminding the failed July coup attempt to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Kutbettin Gulen was…
continue readingHungarians vote to reject or accept a European Union-mandated quota of roughly 1,300 migrants. …
continue readingTurkish authorities have detained the brother of Fethullah Gulen, the self-exiled cleric whom Ankara blames for the July failed coup attempt. …
continue readingU.S. officials are pursuing at least some of money siphoned out of Uzbekistan in an ongoing case that highlights the fragility of relations between Washington and Tashkent at a crucial…
continue readingSyrian forces advanced in the northern city of Aleppo Sunday, in an ongoing offensive to wrest one of the country’s major cities from opposition fighters. Syrian state media reports the…
continue readingMore than 50 people were killed in Ethiopia’s Oromiya region when police fired teargas and warning shots to disperse anti-government protesters at a religious festival. The tear gas caused panic…
continue readingA women’s rights group has filed a legal complaint against an Egyptian lawmaker who called for mandatory virginity tests for women seeking university admission, the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper reported Sunday.…
continue readingPope Francis traveled to Azerbaijan on Sunday for a 10-hour visit aimed at encouraging the country’s inter-religious harmony while likely overlooking criticism of a referendum that extends the president’s term…
continue readingFrench police fired tear gas and water cannons on protesters defending migrants in the northern city of Calais as the government prepares to shut down the city’s notorious migrant camp.…
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