Svetlana Cunningham President Vladimir Putin has urged Russia’s parliament to develop and implement federal legislation on «the Russian nation» to clarify and further regulate ethnic relations in the country. While the proposal has not been fleshed out, it is receiving mixed reviews. «What we really absolutely can and must work on — what we should […]readmore
Cranston – Colonel Michael Winquist, Chief of the Cranston Police Department, announces the arrest of two suspects caught in the act of trying to break into a home on Tweed Street after an alert witness saw one of the men prying open a window in an attempt to gain access. The Cranston Police received a […]readmore
Lisa Bryant PARIS — France on Wednesday began busing an estimated 1,500 unaccompanied migrant youngsters from Calais to other parts of France, after days of bickering with Britain over who should take charge of them. The first busload of children left Calais, where a tent camp for migrants had been dismantled, for the southern town of […]readmore
VOA News On Wednesday, as poor weather bogged down forces advancing on the Islamic State-held city of Mosul, an aid agency warned that civilians there are in great danger as the battle for the city intensifies. «We are now bracing ourselves for the worst,» said the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Wolfgang Gressmann. «The lives of 1.2 […]readmore
VOA News The Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday that it would observe a ‘humanitarian pause’ on Friday to allow both rebels and civilians to leave the embattled city. «A decision was made to introduce a ‘humanitarian pause’ in Aleppo on November 4 from 9:00 to 19:00,» the chief of Russia’s General Staff Valery Gerasimov said […]readmore
Heather Murdock VOA News BARTELLA, IRAQ — Soldiers say the Iraqi army is closing in on Mosul, fighting less than a kilometer from the city limits as it battles Islamic State militants in Iraq.But in cities and villages outside the front lines, some locals say they fear as long as militants control the provincial capital nowhere […]readmore
VOA News U.S. President Barack Obama weighed in Wednesday on the controversy over a planned oil pipeline in North Dakota, saying authorities will review alternative routes. Native Americans and other protesters have tried to block construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, arguing that the route goes through sacred Native American grounds and poses a risk […]readmore
VOA News The Pentagon says a senior al-Qaida external operations planner was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Syria. A «long-serving facilitator and courier» for al-Qaida who had ties to Osama bin Laden and other senior leaders, Haydar Kirkan, was killed on October 17 in Idlib province, Captain Jeff Davis said at a news […]readmore
It has been nearly four years since 20 children and six educators were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Over the past three years, filmmakers have followed the town and its families as they tried to understand and recover from the massacre. Their new documentary, «Newtown,» opened Wednesday in theaters across […]readmore
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding businesses, nonprofit organizations, homeowners and renters, that the deadline to submit an SBA disaster loan application for losses caused by Hurricane Sandy is Dec. 1, 2016. On Dec. 2, 2015 following the Recovery Improvements for Small Entities (RISE) After Disaster Act, SBA’s Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet reopened […]readmore