VOA News A court in the German city of Cologne has given a suspended jail term to a Moroccan man convicted of trying to steal a mobile phone from a woman on New Year’s Eve, a night when numerous sexual assaults were reported and blamed on immigrants. In Wednesday’s proceedings, the court gave a six-month […]readmore
Reuters CAIRO—Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said on Wednesday that the Russian plane that crashed in Sinai last year was downed by terrorists seeking to damage Egypt’s tourism industry and relations with Moscow.»Has terrorism ended, no it has not but it will if we unite. Whoever downed the Russian plane, what did he mean? He meant […]readmore
Reuters PRISTINA—Hundred of Kosovars put up tents in Pristina’s main square on Tuesday demanding snap elections and the suspension of a parliamentary vote that will bring in a president who helped broker a deal giving more powers to the ethnic Serb minority.Opposition parties accuse presidential candidate, Hashim Thaci, deputy prime minister and the head parliament’s […]readmore
BEIJING—China’s recent announcement of a stringent new publishing law for online content and a visit by the country’s increasingly powerful leader to several state run media headquarters is but the latest chilling sign of President Xi Jinping’s efforts to exert increasing control over society, analysts say. But, it also highlights the limits of that […]readmore
Un portavoz del papa Francisco insitió el viernes que el sumo pontífice de ninguna forma lanzó un ataque contra el candidato a la nominación presidencial estadounidense Donald Trump, ni estaba tratando de convencer a los votantes al declarar que alguien que defiende constrtuir muros no es cristiano. El reverendo Federico Lombardi, en una entrevista con […]readmore
Aviones estadounidenses atacaron un campo de entrenamiento del grupo Estado islámico en el oeste de Libia cerca de la frontera de ese país con Túnez y el puesto de mando de un líder extremista importante. Los bombardeos temprano del viernes destruyeron edificios en la localidad de Sabratha, al oeste de Trípoli, en una región donde […]readmore
Jamie Dettmer GAZIANTEP, TURKEY—Turkish officials want coalition backing to secure a strip of territory 10 kilometers deep on the Syrian side of the border around the town of Azaz to protect tens of thousands of displaced civilians, and avoid having to admit them into Turkey. Officials, however, say they are getting little support for […]readmore
A suicide bomber killed at least 10 soldiers Wednesday and wounded several others at a Yemeni army camp in the southern port city of Aden, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State. The attacker, who was dressed as a soldier, detonated his explosives at the gates of the Ras Abbas camp, according to military […]readmore
Chris Hannas Convoys carrying food and medical aid are due to leave Wednesday for besieged areas in Syria where thousands of people have had their access to supplies cut by both government forces and opposition fighters. The aid deliveries are part of an agreement between Syria and the United Nations.They are being sent to seven […]readmore
William Ide BEIJING—China has deployed an advanced surface-to-air missile system to one of the disputed islands it has claimed in the South China Sea, a move that is likely to increase tensions among China and its neighbors. Officials in Taiwan and the United States say China has deployed surface to air missiles on a disputed island […]readmore