Category : Noticias del mundo

VOA News The Turkish military says two of its soldiers have been killed and five wounded in clashes with Islamic State in northern Syria. The fight took place near the town of al-Rai, on the 14th day of an operation in northern Syria, according to Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News. The soldiers were reported killed when […]Load more...

VOA News British radical cleric Anjem Choudary was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison for supporting Islamic State. The 49-year-old has been an outspoken leader of radical Islam for two decades, regularly posting videos on YouTube and protesting outside the U.S. embassy on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, but staying within the […]Load more...

VOA News Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte expressed regret Tuesday that a comment he made involving vulgar language came across as a personal attack against U.S. President Barack Obama. «Our primary intention is to chart an independent foreign policy while promoting closer ties with all nations, especially the U.S., with which we have a long standing […]Load more...

Voz de América Carlos Melo, el político detenido, es dirigente del partido Avanzada Progresista. Otro dirigente de oposición venezolano fue detenido este martes, a dos días de una marcha pacífica conocida como «La Toma de Caracas», que busca exigir al gobierno la realización del proceso revocatorio contra el presidente Nicolás Maduro. El consejal Luis Somaza, […]Load more...

Washington todavía no ha confirmado la muerte que sería uno de los golpes más fuerte y reciente contra el grupo terrorista. El grupo Estado islámico confirmó la muerte de su portavoz y uno de sus comandantes de alto rango mientras supervisaba operaciones militares en Siria. La agencia de noticias de ISIS, informó que Abu Muhammen […]Load more...

MOSCOW — United Russia, the ruling political party best known for its loyalty to President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin, has essentially become a tool of political legitimization for organized crime, according to an opposition party report published Tuesday titled «The Criminal Russia Party.» «I think that the title of the report quite accurately reflects its […]Load more...

VOA News Reports from Syria say the Islamic State group’s second-ranking leader, who served as the extremist group’s chief propagandist and also was linked to recruiting activities and attacks in Europe, has been killed in Aleppo province. Islamic State announced Abu Muhammad al-Adnani’s death Tuesday, saying only that he was killed «while surveying the operations […]Load more...

GENEVA — U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein is calling on all French seaside towns to rescind «discriminatory bans» on the burkini and other forms of dress worn by Muslim women. In weighing in on this controversial issue, the U.N.’s top human rights official, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, did not disguise his disdain for […]Load more...

Luis Ramirez VOA News ST. ETIENNE DU ROUVRAY, FRANCE —France’s controversy over the full-body swimsuit known as the burkini has exposed the country’s battle between its secularist society and its Muslim minority — at 7.5 percent of the population, the largest in Europe. Those tensions, some subtle and some not, have grown in the wake […]Load more...