A U.S. Navy warship has passed through waters claimed by China near disputed islands in the South China Sea to counter what Washington says is Beijing’s attempt to limit freedom…
continue readingRussia has asked several U.S. states for permission to send observers to polling places on November 8 to monitor voting in the presidential and legislative elections, but at least three…
continue readingA hacker group from China and Russia claimed responsibility for a massive cyberattack that caused outages on popular websites from the U.S. east coast to Europe and Asia on October…
continue readingA United Nations inquiry has found Syrian government forces responsible for a third toxic gas attack. …
continue readingThe 2019 European Games will be held in Minsk after the European Olympic Committee’s general assembly approved the capital of Belarus as the sole candidate on October 21. …
continue readingA joint European-Russian space probe appears to have exploded upon landing on the surface of Mars, satellite pictures showed on October 21. …
continue readingAt least 19 people were killed and three injured in a helicopter crash on Russia’s Yamal peninsula in the Arctic on October 21, authorities said. …
continue readingThe United States has charged a Russian with hacking and stealing information from computers at LinkedIn and other San Francisco Bay Area companies. …
continue readingAn air strike killed at least 15 women attending a funeral at a shrine near the city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq on October 21, local officials and medics said.…
continue readingPakistan is refuting claims by Indian security forces that they shot dead seven Pakistani soldiers along the disputed Kashmir border. …
continue readingA contingent of local militiamen, backed by Afghan Taliban militants, are battling Islamic State fighters in a remote district in eastern Afghanistan, according to interviews with regional authorities and local…
continue readingThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned of weak prospects for economic growth in Central Asia and the Caucasus region and has called for reforms to help post-Soviet economies. …
continue readingThe United Nations and officials from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons say the Syrian government is responsible for a third chemical attack that affected a region already…
continue readingEmbedded within the manic action of “Inferno,” the latest big-screen adaptation of a Dan Brown thriller, is a warning about the dangers of seeking simple solutions to complex problems. Star…
continue readingPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Friday he did not mean he would cut off ties with the United States when he said in China that he was separating from the…
continue readingThere’s a right way and a wrong way to raise a baby on vegan food. Those who get it wrong, parents say, give the responsible ones a bad name. A…
continue readingLess than a week into the offensive to retake the Islamic State’s Iraqi stronghold of Mosul, the list of towns and villages freed from the terror group’s grip continues to…
continue readingThe animated superhero Wonder Woman turned 75 Friday and celebrated at the United Nations, where she was appointed Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls. “Wonder Woman is…
continue readingThe U.S. State Department has released a new batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s private email server, revealing that one document contains classified information. The documents were not marked classified…
continue readingU.S. markets rebounded Friday to just about break even from a triple-digit loss on the Dow Jones Industrial Average as traders digested a week of earnings. “We have seen mostly…
continue readingThe Russian national who was accused by American officials of hacking U.S. targets and arrested earlier this month in the Czech capital was indicted by a federal grand jury in…
continue readingThe president of the International Olympic Committee this week urged Tokyo’s mayor not to change the rules of the competition after city authorities announced several changes to the venues for…
continue readingAs Iraqi and Kurdish forces close in on the Islamic State (IS) stronghold of Mosul, IS suicide bombers attacked the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. For VOA, Dlshad Anwar reports. …
continue readingU.N. human rights monitors Friday released preliminary findings into violent protests last month in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The U.N. says at least 53 people were killed, nearly all…
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