“Smut.” “Anti-white.” “Just Plain Filthy.” Over the past three weeks, residents and visitors to businesses and public libraries in Washington have been running across hidden-in-plain-sight books wrapped in black covers…
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continue readingSyrian warplanes are attacking rebel positions in the besieged city of Aleppo as the United Nations Security Council convened an emergency meeting on the spiraling violence in the war-torn country.…
continue readingBritain has to do more work before it triggers the formal procedure to start its exit from the European Union, Foreign Minister Boris Johnson said Sunday, but once it is…
continue readingThreatened by Islamic extremism, Christian and Jewish groups in Turkey are growing more fearful amid increasing terror attacks and the government’s state of emergency following a failed coup attempt, representatives…
continue readingSuspected U.S. airstrikes in southeastern Afghanistan are believed to have killed a top commander of the extremist Pakistan Taliban and several of his partners. The overnight attack took place in Bermal district…
continue readingSyrian and Russian jet fighters pounded the city’s residential communities where an estimated 250,000 people live, flattening buildings and leaving streets filled with debris and chunks of concrete. …
continue readingThe leader of jihadist group Boko Haram reappeared in a video posted on social media Sunday, saying he is in good health and rejecting statements by the Nigerian army he…
continue readingUntil Saturday afternoon, uptown Charlotte, often called Queen city, and its parks, which served as meeting points for protesters every night this past week, were largely deserted before sundown. That…
continue readingThe U.N. Security Council held urgent talks Sunday about the deadly surge of violence in Aleppo as Syrian and Russian jet fighters bombarded the rebel-controlled eastern sector of the Syrian…
continue readingSince being declared “acting president” by parliament on September 8, Shavkat Mirziyaev has been very active, and in the process, provided some insight into his policies should he be elected…
continue readingOne of professional baseball’s rising young stars, Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez, has died along with two companions in a boating accident near the U.S. city of Miami. He was…
continue readingAzerbaijan is holding a referendum on amending the constitution that is expected to strengthen the grip on power of President Ilham Aliyev and his family. …
continue readingSoutheast Asian nations have tried for years to establish a code of conduct for shipping, fishing and exploring for oil in the South China Sea. The idea is to avoid…
continue readingDemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump face off in the first of three nationally-televised debates Monday in Hempstead, New York. The Clinton-Trump showdown is likely to…
continue readingWhen the next manned rocket blasts off for the International Space Station, a box containing relics of St. Serafim of Sarov will be strapped to the chest of the Russian…
continue readingRussians often call San Francisco the most Russian city in America, even though the city’s population of Russian-speaking people is smaller than that of New York City. A crew from…
continue readingRussians often call San Francisco the most Russian city in America, even though the city’s population of Russian-speaking peopleis smaller than that of New York City. A crew from VOA’s…
continue readingDays after a police officer fatally shot a man in Charlotte, North Carolina the community continues demonstrations calling for justice. The family of the deceased released cellphone video of the…
continue readingA controversial Moscow photography exhibition that critics say amounts to “child pornography” has been closed down following a protest by conservative activists. …
continue readingIt could be the defining moment of the 2016 campaign. Monday’s first presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump may draw, by some estimates, 100 million viewers,…
continue readingA gunman has killed a prominent Jordanian writer in front of the courthouse where the writer was facing charges that a cartoon posted on his Facebook page was offensive to…
continue readingIraqi officials say a suicide bomber has blown himself up in Baghdad, killing seven people and wounding 19. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast Sunday in…
continue readingSeven people have been reported killed in a suicide bombing in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. …
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