Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump offered new immigration reform proposals Saturday and said he would cut taxes for middle-class Americans by 35 percent during his first 100 days in office,…
continue readingCalling North Korea leader Kim Jong Un’s regime “illegal and illegitimate,” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday thanked the government of Kuwait for “efforts to help counter the…
continue readingSomali pirates Saturday released 26 sailors who were captured during a ship hijacking nearly five years ago, bringing to an end one of the longest-running hostage taking cases in the…
continue readingFor the 29 years that Pheng Ang has called Lowell home, he hasn’t seen the local Cambodian-American community, the second largest in the U.S., as politically fragmented as it is…
continue readingUkrainian women are coming to the rescue of the ancient Samaritan community in the West Bank, whose numbers have dwindled to fewer than 1,000. …
continue readingThe Philippines foreign affairs secretary is clarifying his country’s relationship with the United States, two days after President Rodrigo Duterte announced his “separation” from Washington during a visit to Beijing.…
continue readingA senior Egyptian army officer was shot dead near his home in an eastern Cairo suburb Saturday. Officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk…
continue readingA Syrian opposition member described to RFE/RL on October 21 the situation around what the Syrian government had said would be a “safe corridor” in Aleppo’s rebel-held eastern sections. (RFE/RL’s…
continue readingThe death toll has risen to 73 after a train derailed and crashed Friday outside Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé. Hundreds more were injured. The Ndjock Luk family mourns the death of…
continue readingThe northern Iraqi town of Bartella was retaken from Islamic State militants by Iraqi troops as they advanced toward Mosul on October 20. (RFE/RL’s Radio Farda) …
continue readingViews of Russia are playing a surprising role in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. The U.S. government has formally accused Moscow of conducting cyberattacks on the Democratic National Committee to…
continue readingGhana’s former first lady and opposition National Democratic Party (NDP) presidential candidate Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings says she has what it takes to defeat incumbent President John Dramani Mahama of…
continue readingThis year’s U.N. report on tuberculosis was a shocker. The World Health Organization’s Global TB Report 2016 said the spread of the disease is larger than previously estimated, and that…
continue readingThis year’s UN report on TB is a shocker. The reported number of new infections drastically increased over the past year, and doctors know at least four million people with…
continue readingNineteen people were killed Saturday when a helicopter carrying oil workers crashed in northwestern Siberia. Weather may be to blame, the Russia aviation agency reported. Russian officials said the…
continue readingThe massive military push to oust the so-called Islamic State from Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, involves Iraqis, Kurds, Americans and even members of the Iraq’s Shi’ite community. U.S. military officials…
continue readingIraqi troops have stormed a mostly Christian town that has been under the control of the extremist group Islamic State (IS) since 2014 in in their ongoing offensive to capture…
continue readingTwenty years late and billions of dollars over budget, the newest U.S. nuclear reactor officially began sending electricity to customers this week. One of the largest government-owned electric power providers,…
continue readingU.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has arrived in Iraq to meet with his commanders and review the progress in the six-day-old offensive to retake the northern city of Mosul from…
continue readingIran says it has recalled all its technicians and workers back from the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk following an October 21 deadly attack by the extremist group Islamic State…
continue readingMalawi President Peter Mutharika has refuted speculation that his extended stay in the United States following the United Nations General Assembly last month was because he was ill. Mutharika, who…
continue readingSouth Africa’s opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA) plans to petition the Constitutional Court Monday to challenge the government’s decision to withdraw the country’s membership to the Hague-based International Criminal…
continue readingU.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter arrived in Iraq Saturday to meet with coalition commanders to review and assist the operation to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants. The secretary is…
continue readingAn Afghan Taliban delegation has traveled to Pakistan from Qatar for talks with officials to raise various issues, including “arrests” of some insurgent leaders, shutting down of some religious seminaries…
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