Russia President Vladimir Putin played down the significance of a series of large street protests in Moscow, calling them a part of “preelection tensions.” Speaking on August 21 during a visit to Finland to meet with his counterpart, Sauli Niinisto, the Russian president justified the police detention of large numbers of protesters, saying demonstrations in […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said he was in favor of letting Russia back in to the exclusive Group of Seven advanced economies when the United States hosts the event next year. His remarks came before a meeting with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis on August 20 in Washington and four days before he arrives […]
Pakistan’s government says Indian troops have fired across the Line of Control in the disputed Kashmir region, killing two civilians and wounding one. Pakistan and India often exchange fire in the Himalayan region, but tensions have increased since August 5 when New Delhi canceled the special status of Indian-administered Kashmir, cut off Internet and phone […]
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemned the August 17 bombing of a wedding reception in Kabul in his congratulatory message on Afghanistan’s 100th anniversary of independence. “Sadly Afghanistan’s 100-year history has also been marked by conflict. The terrorist attack against a Kabul wedding hall this weekend is an attack against humanity,” the message said […]
Date created : 17/08/2019 – 21:29 Measles has killed 2,758 people in the DR Congo since January, more than the Ebola epidemic in a year, medical NGO Doctors Without Borders said, and called Saturday for a “massive mobilisation of funds.” ADVERTISING Read more The disease, preventable with a vaccine, has infected over 145,000 people in […]
The White House says President Donald Trump’s talks with his national security advisers to discuss Afghan peace talks went “very well” and that negotiations with the Taliban “are proceeding.” Officials on August 16 said Trump was meeting with his top advisers to review negotiations with the extremist group about a possible U.S. troop pullout from […]
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Security Council members believe India and Pakistan should refrain from taking unilateral action over the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir, China’s U.N. envoy said on Friday after the council met on the issue for the first time in decades. Indian security force personnel stand guard in a deserted street […]
Date created : 16/08/2019 – 19:44 Amnesty International voiced growing concern Friday for the safety of a Libyan lawmaker after her “horrific” night-time abduction in the city of Benghazi. ADVERTISING Read more Siham Sergewa disappeared on July 17 in an attack that also allegedly saw her husband shot in the leg, shortly after she spoke […]
Damir Yusupov, the pilot who landed a Ural Airlines passenger plane in a Russian cornfield, says he wasn’t afraid after both of the jetliner’s engines were knocked out by birds. He didn’t have time to be. A day after being hailed as a hero for his quick thinking in the cockpit as the plane lost […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. special peace envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker, says Russian propaganda is making it a challenge to solve the conflict in Crimea. Speaking to RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service in Washington, Volker said Moscow’s denial of responsibility for its role in the battle between separatists and Ukrainian forces in the eastern part of the […]