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At home and in the streets, Greeks are weighing the monumental choice they have to make on Sunday: more financial pain to stay with the euro, or the uncertainty of being cut loose.
The U.S. and Cuba have reached an agreement to restore diplomatic relations and reopen embassies in each other’s capitals, the biggest step yet toward ending a half century of animosity between the two countries.
The death toll from the crash of an air force transport plane in Medan jumped to more than 140, indicating a growing list of victims from the neighborhood where the plane went down.
Greece sent a new proposal for budget cuts and policy overhauls as part of a request for a new bailout, but it falls short of the demands of the country’s creditors, three European officials said.
The number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean to reach Europe increased sharply in the first half of the year, according to the U.N., with Greece overtaking Italy as the main entry point.
China has invited Kim Jong Un to attend events in September to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
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At least 10 Egyptian soldiers were killed in simultaneous attacks on military checkpoints in the Sinai Peninsula, an army spokesman said, a day after President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi vowed to strengthen the country’s antiterror laws.
A new legal requirement in Britain for teachers to report extremist behavior in nurseries and schools to police is drawing sharp criticism from British Muslims.
Saudi Arabia’s Prince al-Waleed bin Talal pledged $32 billion to philanthropy, with the empowerment of women one of his priorities.
People born in the Dominican Republic to Haitian immigrants are being denied basic rights. We hear from Dominicans unable to enrol at school or college, work in the formal economy or register the births of their children – and who live in fear of being deported Continue reading...
US Urged to Keep Up Pressure on Cuba Rightsby webdesk@voanews.com (William Gallo)
As the U.S. and Cuba move ahead with their historic normalization of bilateral ties, human rights groups have been urging Washington to keep up the pressure on Havana to improve its dismal rights record. When the thaw in relations was announced late last year, Cuba announced several rights-related trust-building measures, including agreeing to release 53 political dissidents, expand Internet access, and allow more visits by rights monitors. But the communist government continues to...
Puerto Rico Power Company Forced to Sell Bonds Amid Crisisby webdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press)
Puerto Rico's troubled power company has been forced to sell bonds once again to obtain capital and avoid defaulting on a $415 million debt payment due Wednesday with a worsening economic crisis in the U.S. territory. The Electric Power Authority said in a statement that it paid $153 million in cash and the remainder from its debt service reserve accounts. In turn, creditors agreed to buy $128 million worth of new bonds to provide liquidity, and those bonds have to be paid in full by...
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Before Obama, a Long History of Attempted US-Cuba Detenteby webdesk@voanews.com (Jerome Socolovsky)
After the U.S. military’s failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the Cuban missile crisis the following year, President John F. Kennedy chose a different tack on U.S.-Cuban relations by engaging in back channel negotiations with Prime Minister Fidel Castro. The talks made enough progres that, declassified documents show, a few months after Kennedy was assassinated, Castro sent a secret message to his successor, President Lyndon Johnson, who was up for reelection in 1964. “If the...
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VIENNA (Reuters) - To Iran's leaders, solving a nuclear standoff with the West might be a question of maintaining geopolitical influence and prestige. To its ordinary citizens, it's about money, food and jobs.
MOSCOW/VILNIUS (Reuters) - A move in Russia to review the legality of a 1991 decision formally granting Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia independence from the Soviet Union has alarmed the Baltic States and stoked tensions in ties with Moscow.
KUWAIT/DUBAI (Reuters) - When a Saudi Arabian man flew to Kuwait in the early hours of Friday to carry out the country's worst militant attack, a bomb vest, Kuwaiti-style Arab robes, a place to prepare, and a car and driver to take him to his target were all lined up for him.
OSLO (Reuters) - Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik launched legal action on Wednesday accusing the Norwegian state of violating his human rights by keeping him in strict isolation in prison four years after he massacred 77 people.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Alarmed by Syrian Kurds' advances against Islamic State, and irked by Western reluctance to tackle Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, President Tayyip Erdogan has once again raised the prospect of a Turkish military intervention in Syria.
Russia says a request to look into the legality of the three Baltic countries' independence from the Soviet Union has “no legal prospects.”
Have Tajik IS Militants Faked Their Own 'Martyrdoms'?by support@pangea-cms.com (Joanna Paraszczuk)
The concept of "martyrdom," death in battle against "infidels," is a key element of the ideology of the Islamic State (IS) militant group. IS issues photos of dead militants online, hailing them as "martyrs" in propaganda efforts.
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