VOA News Senior European Union leaders are expressing their commitment to help Britain remain in the bloc. Before a two-day summit that opens Thursday, British Prime Minister David Cameron won a commitment from European Parliament President Martin Schulz that the legislative body will “do its utmost” to back any fair deal on the EU reform […]readmore
VOA News Ukraine’s president has asked the country’s prime minister to resign in the face of what is perceived as the government’s failure to fight corruption and overcome an economic crisis. President Petro Poroshenko’s surprise request Tuesday followed opinion polls that showed growing public disenchantment with the government of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Yatsenyuk’s resignation […]readmore
VOA News Pope Francis is holding a Mass for Mexican priests, nuns and seminarians Tuesday in the state of Michoacan, the heart of Mexico’s drug-trafficking country. Francis arrived in the capital, Morelia, for the service in which he is expected to offer words of encouragement to Mexican clergy as they try to minister to a […]readmore
VOA News Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is being questioned in connection with a financial scandal involving his unsuccessful re-election bid in 2012. Sarkozy appeared in a Paris courtroom Tuesday to face judges investigating allegations that a public relations firm, Bygmalion, engaged in a process of false accounting that allowed Sarkozy’s campaign to conceal unauthorized […]readmore
VOA News Prosecutors in Germany say human error caused last week’s fatal, head-on train crash in Bavaria, and they have opened a criminal investigation of the train dispatcher on duty at the time. Eleven people died and 80 others were injured when two commuter trains slammed into each other 60 kilometers southeast of Munich, near […]readmore
VOA News Four American journalists charged in Bahrain have been released and are due to fly out of the country, their lawyer said Tuesday. The journalists, arrested on Sunday, had been charged earlier in the day with illegally assembling with the intent to commit a crime. Police said the woman and three men entered the […]readmore
GAZIANTEP, TURKEY—Syrian rebels warn their five-year-long struggle to oust President Bashar al-Assad will go underground, if they are deserted by Western backers or an attempt is made to foist an unacceptable political deal on them. They will wage a relentless guerrilla campaign against the Assad regime and “foreign invaders” from Iran and Russia, turning the […]readmore
VOA News A new report finds that some 470,000 people have been killed since Syria’s civil war began nearly five years ago and that the new casualty figure is nearly twice that of past United Nations estimates. According to the independent, non-profit Syrian Center for Policy Research, 400,000 Syrians were killed in violence linked to […]readmore
VOA News The director of the Central Intelligence Agency said Islamic State fighters in Syria have used chemical weapons. John Brennan said there are a number of instances where the terrorist group has used «chemical munitions on the battlefield.» His comments were featured in excerpts from the television news show 60 Minutes. The full interview with […]readmore
Daniel Schearf February 12, 2016 4:55 AM MOSCOW—Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is to meet with the head of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, Friday at a security conference in Munich after the Western military alliance and the United States announced plans for the biggest military build-up in Europe since the Cold War.The United States is planning […]readmore