Category : Noticias del mundo

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...

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...

Margaret Besheer UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations aid chief warned Monday that Syria is the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time and there “is a race against time” to save hundreds of thousands of besieged civilians with food, water and medical supplies. “In Aleppo, we risk seeing a humanitarian catastrophe unparalleled in the over five […]Load more...

ISTANBUL — Accusations of U.S. involvement in last month’s failed coup in Turkey continue to dog relations between the countries. In rare political consensus, the allegations are crossing Turkey’s deep political divide. “There is a very strong belief in Turkey amongst many that America is somehow involved in this coup,” says Turkish political columnist Semih Idiz […]Load more...