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EUROPE FILE: Just as the European Union appears to have resolved one crisis, it risks being overwhelmed by another, says Simon Nixon
In photos picked Sunday by Wall Street Journal editors, Indonesians celebrate National Day, Sri Lanka plays India in cricket, and a crew member jumps from a burning ship in the Philippines.
Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s embattled leader, was the main target of demonstrators in cities across the country Sunday, from Belém in the impoverished northern Amazon region to Rio de Janeiro’s fashionable Copacabana beach and middle-class enclaves in the southeastern city of São Paulo.
A struggle between Iraq’s rival Shiite power-brokers poses a threat to Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s ambitious plan to overhaul government, Iraqi and Western officials said.
Discrimination against many asylum seekers starts with smugglers looking to maximize profits, and ends with European authorities scrambling to deal with the influx of people and prioritizing them by nationality.
The Pentagon plans to sharply expand the number of U.S. drone flights in the next four years, giving military commanders access to more intelligence and greater firepower to keep up with a sprouting number of global hot spots, a senior defense official said.
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The Kremlin’s move in recent months to tighten regulations on activist groups that receive funding from abroad has sent a shudder through Russia’s fragile civil society.
The prime minister is facing fresh internal divisions within his conservative party over his stance against same-sex marriage, just six months after surviving an internal leadership challenge.
The glaciers of the Tien Shan mountain range have lost a quarter of their ice mass over the past five decades, largely because of increased melting linked to a rise in summer temperatures, according to new research.
BEIRUT — Government airstrikes killed as many as 100 people in a Damascus suburb Sunday, activists said, in one of the deadliest attacks of Syria’s four-year-old conflict.The air raids by President Bashar al-Assad’s military targeted a market in the Douma area of the capital, according to activists and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group that monitors the fighting.Read full article >>
Ex-premier Maliki on hot seat in Iraq over fall of Mosul to Islamic State by Loveday Morris, Mustafa Salim
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s former prime minister may face criminal charges for his role in the fall of Mosul to Islamic State militants last summer after an investigation named him among officials responsible.Nouri al-Maliki, currently one of the country’s three vice presidents, is among dozens of officials named in a parliamentary report on why the city fell with so little resistance, members of the investigation committee said Sunday. He has been widely blamed for allowing corruption to thrive during his tenure as prime minister, including in Iraq’s security forces.Read full article >>
If Washington does not cancel its planned military exercises with South Korea, North Korea has issued new nuclear threats and says it is ready to us its latest weapons, which "are unknown to theworld." The drills, called Ulchi ...
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Demonstrators attend a protest against Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, part of nationwide protests calling for her impeachment, at Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo's financial centre
London's oldest gay pub under threat: 'There's been a lot of illegitimate fun for 150 years' – videoby Mat Heywood and Charlie Phillips
The threat of closure hangs over London’s oldest gay venue, the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, after its purchase by Austrian property developers. What is about this spit-and-sawdust LGBTQ south London pub that regulars love so much? Performers including Amy Lamé, Timberlina and Bette Bourne show us behind the scenes at the capital’s home of drag
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Political post for Vladimir Yakunin would mark biggest change in Putin’s team for three years
The billionaire says he is not a fan of Saudi Arabia and that abortion should be available only in certain circumstances. Find out more about what "the Donald" would do if he ruled the US
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ISIL Terrorists Kill 15 Iraqi Women in Mosul
Al-Manar TV Members of the Takfiri ISIL group have executed more than a dozen women in Iraq's embattled northern city of Mosul as they continue perpetrating crimes on a large scale in the areas under their control. The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) spokesman in ... and more » |
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Over 60 Same-sex Couples Married At Puerto Rico Wedding
TIME (SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico)—Over 60 couples from around the region gathered in Puerto Rico's capital Sunday to exchange vows at a same-sex marriage ceremony while a crowd of supporters snapped photos and cheered. The mass ceremony at a ... and more » |
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Over 60 same-sex couples exchange vows at mass wedding ceremony in Puerto Rico ...
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Iraqi Internet Experiencing 'Strange' Outagesby webdesk@voanews.com (Doug Bernard)
What reportedly began as an effort by the Iraqi government to prevent cheating on national school exams has grown into an unexplained series of periodic, regular cuts to Internet access across that nation. Beginning on June 27 at 5 a.m. local time, access to the Internet across Iraq was sudden and drastically reduced, effectively shutting down Iraq’s Internet. As detailed by Dyn Research, an Internet services company, the service cut lasted exactly three hours, and full access was...
Russia Dismisses Iran General Visit as 'Rumor'by webdesk@voanews.com (Daniel Schearf)
Russia is dismissing as "rumors" reports it hosted an Iranian general, despite a United Nations travel ban on such a visit. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said "all commentaries" on these rumors have been made and there is nothing he can add to what he called a “chain of suspicions” from his American colleagues. The U.S. State Department said last week a July visit to Russia by Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani had violated the U.N. ban. The...
Bernanke: China Currency More Market-Orientedby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
The former head of the U.S. central bank says China is moving in a more "market-oriented" direction with recent changes in the way it regulates currency exchange. Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said Monday that Washington has been asking Beijing to take market forces into account when setting the exchange rate "for a long time." Speaking at the Brookings Institution, Bernanke said China's currency had "appreciated considerably"...
Kyiv, Moscow Trade Blame for Escalation in E. Ukraineby webdesk@voanews.com (Jonas Bernstein)
Kyiv and Moscow are accusing each other of fueling tensions, as fighting in eastern Ukraine continues to escalate. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko denounced President Vladimir Putin's arrival Monday in Crimea. In a Facebook posting, Poroshenko called the Russian leader's visit to the Black Sea peninsula "a challenge to the civilized world and the continuation of the scenario to fuel tensions, which is being implemented by the Russian military and their...
US to Pair Health Workers, Police to Combat Heroin Useby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
The U.S. embarked Monday on a new way to combat soaring heroin overdoses and deaths. The White House said it would pair health care workers with law enforcement agents in 15 states along the country's populous northeast corridor to emphasize treatment of drug users over punishment. The million program is aimed at tracing where heroin is coming from, how it is being laced with a deadly additive, and who is selling it on the streets. The plan is a response to a steep recent...
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U.N. and camp officials in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region are already preparing for another wave of Iraqis displaced by war to flood into the area as the conflict against Islamic extremists rages on. A U.N. official says Kurdistan's ability to absorb more people is quickly reaching its limit. VOA's Sharon Benh reports from Irbil.
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Western Wildfires: Evacuations, Power Outages and Heavy Smoke
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Amazon chief Jeff Bezos hits back at damning report of office culture
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The Republican Party doesn't want to believe its voters agree with Trump. But ...
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Reports: Large explosion rocks central Bangkok
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Target of 18-day manhunt killed in California
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US 'warns China over use of covert agents'
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Gay marriage bill introduced to Australian parliament
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(JAYAPURA, Indonesia) — A search plane has spotted the wreckage of an Indonesian passenger plane that went missing with 54 people on board, smoke still billowing from it in a rugged area in eastern Papua province, rescue officials said Monday.
There was no immediate word if there were any survivors from Sunday’s crash, which happened in bad weather over Indonesia’s mountainous easternmost province.
The Trigana Air Service plane was flying from Papua’s provincial capital, Jayapura, to the Papua city of Oksibil when it lost contact with Oksibil’s airport. Transportation Ministry spokesman Julius Barata said there was no indication that the pilot had made a distress call.
Officials said the wreckage was spotted about 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Oksibil. Henry Bambang Soelistyo, the chief of the National Search and Rescue Agency, said search and rescue teams were preparing to try to reach the crash site by air and foot.
The ATR42-300 twin turboprop plane was carrying 49 passengers and five crew members on a scheduled 42-minute journey. Five children, including two infants, were among the passengers.
“Smoke was still billowing from the wreckage when it was spotted by a plane search,” said Soelistyo who is leading the rescue operation from Sentani Airport in Jayapura, adding that bad weather and rugged terrain were hampering efforts to reach the wreckage located in a mountainous area at an altitude of 2,600 meters (about 8,500 feet).
He said elite forces from the air force and army will build a helipad for evacuation purposes near the crash site.
Search planes went into the air early Monday after residents of a village not far from Oksibil told local police that they saw a plane flying low before crashing into a mountain, said Ludiyanto, who heads the search and rescue operation from Jayapura. Ludiyanto, like many Indonesians, goes by one
name.The airline’s crisis center official in Jayapura’s Sentani airport, Budiono,
said all the passengers are Indonesians and there were nine names on the initial passenger manifest were eventually replaced by other persons — a common practice among small domestic airlines in the country.
Budiono also said that among the passengers were five local government officials and members of the local parliament who were to attend a ceremony Monday in Oksibil marking the 70th anniversary of Indonesia’s independence from Dutch colonial rule. The event is a major holiday across the country, with many ceremonies and carnivals.
Oksibil, which is 280 kilometers (175 miles) south of Jayapura, was experiencing heavy rain, strong winds and fog when the plane lost contact with the airport minutes before it was scheduled to land.
Much of Papua is covered with impenetrable jungles and mountains. Some planes that have crashed in the past have never been found.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said in a statement ahead of Indonesia’s 70th independence anniversary ceremony that he was calling “for a moment of silence and pray for the crew and passengers ahead of our independence anniversary.”
European plane maker ATR said in a statement late Sunday that it “acknowledges the reported loss of contact” with the Trigana flight “and is standing by to support the relevant aviation authorities.” ATR, based in Toulouse, France, makes regional planes with 90 seats or less.
Indonesia has had a string of airline tragedies in recent years.
The sprawling archipelago nation of 250 million people and some 17,000 islands is one of Asia’s most rapidly expanding airline markets, but it is struggling to provide enough qualified pilots, mechanics, air traffic controllers and updated airport technology to ensure safety.
From 2007 to 2009, the European Union barred Indonesian airlines from flying to Europe because of safety concerns.
Trigana Air Service, which commenced operations in 1991, had 22 aircraft as of December 2013 and flies to 21 destinations in Indonesia.
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Associated Press writers Ali Kotarumalos and Angela Charlton in Paris contributed to this report.
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The Obama administration has warned Beijing about the presence of Chinese agents in the United States who are secretly attempting to pressure prominent expatriates to return home to China immediately.
Citing anonymous U.S. government officials, the New York Times reports that the Chinese efforts are part of a global program, called Operation Fox Hunt, to coerce Chinese expats and fugitives into returning home.
The Chinese fugitives in the United States are often prominent officials or figures, wanted for what the Chinese view as economic corruption or political crimes, officials said. American officials said they believe Chinese agents use strong-arm tactics to get them to return home, and that they have increased pressure recently.
The Chinese view such tactics as part of a broader campaign against corruption under Chinese president Xi Jingping. More than 930 suspects have been repatriated, including more than 70 who have returned this year voluntarily, China’s Ministry of Public Security reported in June.
The United States’ Central Intelligence Agency has spies in China, and there are Chinese operatives in the United States whose goal is to steal political, economic, military and industrial secrets. But the recent program differs in that Chinese agents are in the U.S. with the aim of returning home alleged dissidents.
It’s a crime for Chinese agents to operate in the United States “without prior notification to the attorney general,” a Justice Department spokesman told the Times.
The Obama administration’s warning to Beijing is likely to increase tensions between the two countries ahead of an official visit by President Xi Jingping to Washington next month.
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