Associated Press/VOA NEWS TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s brief but showstopping gig at the Olympics closing ceremony as the Nintendo game character Super Mario offered a tantalizing glimpse at Tokyo’s plans for the 2020 games. The organizers for the Tokyo games crammed the works into a brief two-minute film montage before Abe’s appearance: athletes […]readmore
A Malian jihadist has pleaded guilty to ordering the destruction of nine mausoleums and a mosque in the city of Timbuktu. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi said during a hearing Monday at the International Criminal Court in The Hague that the prosecution’s description of what led to attacks that destroyed or severely damaged the cultural […]readmore
VOA News South Korea and the United States have begun their annual joint military exercise under the threat of military retaliation by North Korea. About 25,000 U.S. forces and 50,000 South Korean troops are involved in the two-week Operation Ulchi Freedom exercise, which is largely simulated. The annual drills routinely anger Pyongyang, which says it […]readmore
Jill Craig VOA NEWS NAIROBI, KENYA — South Sudan was at the top of the agenda as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Monday with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and foreign ministers from Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Somalia, and South Sudan in Nairobi, at the start of a three-country tour. The secretary of state announced the […]readmore
VOA NEWS Dorian Jones ISTANBUL — Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Monday the country’s border region with Syria must be «completely cleansed» of the Islamic State militant group. His comments followed a suicide bombing late Saturday at a wedding in southeastern Turkey that killed at least 51 people. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed Islamic […]readmore
ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says a child suicide bomber carried out Saturday’s attack on a wedding party in southeast Turkey, killing at least 51 people and wounding scores of others, many of them critically. Erdogan, speaking Sunday, said initial evidence shows the bomber was between 12 and 14 years old. He said Islamic […]readmore
Álvaro Algarra – Caracas, Venezuela Voz de América El presidente venezolano, Nicolás Maduro, ha hecho varios llamados a la oposición en días recientes para que no salga a las calles. El presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, durante una alocución en cadena nacional de radio y televisión amenazó a todos los ciudadanos opositores que salgan a […]readmore
VOA News The Russian prosecutor general’s office has added two U.S.-based non-governmental organizations to its list of foreign NGOs whose activities are deemed «undesirable on the territory of the Russian Federation.» The office said Thursday that the work of the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) «poses a threat to […]readmore
Esha Sarai U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Nigeria and Saudi Arabia next week to discuss regional issues, the State Department announced Thursday. Kerry will first go to Nigeria and meet with President Muhammadu Buhari to discuss the threat of terror group Boko Haram, spokesman John Kirby said. Boko Haram, the group […]readmore
VOA News Brazilian police say they might charge U.S. Olympic swimmers with vandalism and giving false testimony after the swimmers admitted they fabricated a story about being robbed at gunpoint. Swimmers Ryan Lochte, Jack Conger, Gunnar Bentz and James Feigen initially told police they were robbed at gunpoint early Sunday morning on their way back […]readmore