Category : Noticias del mundo

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 […]Load more...

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 […]Load more...

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 […]Load more...

LESBOS, GREECE—There’s little room left in the graveyards on this windswept island.  Aid workers on Lesbos struggle to bury the growing number of refugees’ bodies pulled from the sea. Of the more than a million people who have found safe haven in Europe this past year, many have come through Lesbos first. But in crossing […]Load more...

VOA News Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, has embarked on a trip that will take him to Mexico, with a stop in Cuba for a historic meeting with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill. Kirill is in Cuba for a state visit. The Holy See announced last week that […]Load more...

Danila Galperovich MOSCOW—Alexei Navalny, the well-known Russian opposition activist and founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, filed a lawsuit against Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court on Thursday. Navalny detailed his case against the Russian president in an exclusive interview with VOA’s Russian service.Q: What is the substance of your suit against Vladimir Putin? A: […]Load more...

MUNICH, GERMANY / GAZIANTEP, TURKEY—Russia is proposing talks about a cease-fire in Syria, but European diplomats are skeptical about the offer, which they see as a delaying tactic that would allow intense Russian airstrikes in Aleppo to continue. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow had submitted a “quite specific” proposal. “We will wait for […]Load more...

Luis Ramirez LONDON—NATO warships are heading to the Aegean Sea to help Turkey and Greece stop human traffickers, marking the entry of the alliance into efforts to deal with the growing flow of migrants to Europe.NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday said three ships under German command were being deployed immediately to help the Turkish […]Load more...

VOA News Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeated a threat to banish the 2.5 million Syrian migrants it is hosting within its borders, saying he could bus them to the borders of the European Union. In a speech to a business forum in Ankara Thursday, Erdogan confirmed comments that were leaked earlier in the […]Load more...

VOA News A 94-year-old former guard at Europe’s most notorious concentration camp has gone on trial in Germany, where he faces 170,000 counts of accessory to murder. Reinhold Hanning has said he served at Auschwitz as a 20-year-old member of the German SS guard, but insists he served in a part of the camp where […]Load more...