Venezuela’s political standoff deepened Wednesday as tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in several cities and opposition leaders called for a general strike later this week. At one of the demonstrations in Venezuelan capital Caracas, Jesus Torrealba, secretary general of the opposition party, announced the 12-hour strike for Friday as another attempt […]readmore
A medida que aumenten las bajas en Irak y Siria, el grupo Estado islámico se verá obligado a concentrarse en mantener la capital del autodenominado califato. El temor de que el grupo Estado islámico esté comenzando a concentrarse en su autodenominada capital de Raqqa, en territorio sirio, y que pueda lanzar ataques desde allí, ha […]readmore
Álvaro Algarra – Caracas, Venezuela Voz de América Piden a los ciudadanos que se queden en sus casas “como medida de protesta» por la suspensión del revocatorio contra Maduro. La oposición venezolana convocó a una huelga general de 12 horas en protesta por la suspensión del referendo revocatorio en contra del presidente Nicolás Maduro, pese […]readmore
Final demolition work began at the “jungle” refugee shelter in Calais, France, Thursday morning after authorities declared the camp empty a day earlier. Workers used large construction equipment and machines to rip down the make-shift shelters, some of which had been badly burned by refugees setting fires Wednesday before they were forced to leave. Firefighters […]readmore
Brian Padden VOA News SEOUL — U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday refuted the assessment made this week by the U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, in which he said that trying to persuade North Korea to denuclearize «is probably a lost cause.” “We will not accept North Korea as a nuclear […]readmore
Jeff Seldin VOA News Fears that the Islamic State is beginning to mass in its self-proclaimed Syrian capital of Raqqa and the possibility that the terror group may launch attacks from there are prompting the United States and its Western allies to put Raqqa in their crosshairs in the coming weeks. U.S. and Western officials […]readmore
An independent United Nations expert is bitterly condemning the world body for refusing to accept legal responsibility for a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed more than 9,300 and sickened 800,000. A U.N. expert on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, calls the U.N. stance a disgrace and a debacle. «If the United […]readmore
Heather Murdock QAYYARAH, IRAQ — Fleeing fighting, abandoning their villages, and returning to formerly IS controlled areas, Iraqis are on the move. Aid workers are setting up camps for the one million people who may be displaced by the battle for Mosul, while many recaptured villages and towns remain virtually empty, littered with bombs and blackened […]readmore
VOA News A 46-year-old Iranian-American says a court in northeastern Iran has sentenced him to 18 years in prison after convicting him of «collaborating with a hostile government.» Details of the trial and sentencing of Gholamrez Reza Shahini emerged Tuesday, after Shahini made contact with family members in the United States and after he managed […]readmore
VOA News Salem Solomon The demolition of the camp that came to symbolize Europe’s refugee crisis is underway in Calais, France. Commonly known as “the jungle,” the camp has been home to an estimated 6,500 people, according to the French government, including 1,200 unaccompanied and separated children. Some of those children are now being offered […]readmore