Go or no go? U.S. updates travel advisories amid coronavirus outbreak

By VOA,

The U.S. State Department says when it comes to issuing a travel alert for Americans traveling abroad, it takes into account health risks. This inc...

coronavirus

Earth Hour 2020: The time for global action

By Citizen,

By Guenter Mitlacher On 28 March, as I take my place amongst millions of people around the globe to celebrate Earth Hour, I am reminded again of wh...

12 dead, several injured after 100-passenger plane crashes

By Imani Mitchelle,

At least twelve people have been confirmed dead and several others injured after a plane carrying 100 passengers crashed on a two-storey building shor...

Almaty International Airport , Kazakhstan , plane crash , President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

Inside the private jet that flew President Kenyatta to Japan, Russia

By Joseph Bonyo,

President Uhuru Kenyatta and his entourage to Tokyo, Japan and Sochi, Russia flew in style using a luxury private jet for the back-to-back official tr...

Emperor Naruhito , Mashujaa day , President Uhuru Kenyatta , Private jet

Visitors to United States under visa program at risk of trafficking, research says

By Reuters,

Dozens of young adults visiting the United States in recent years under a cultural exchange visa program have become victims of human trafficking, acc...

International Labor Recruitment Working Group (ILRWG)

Russia commemorates end of World War II

By VOA,

Russia on May 9 commemorated the 74th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in World War II with a military parade on Moscow's Red Squar...

Russian world war veteran calls for peace on Victory Day

By Reuters,

Centenarian World War Two veteran Nikolay Bagayev will be among Russians across the country commemorating the anniversary of the war’s end on Thursd...

Hundreds demand election boycott in Kazakhstan

By Reuters,

Hundreds of Kazakhs rallied in their two main cities on Wednesday, calling for a boycott of June presidential elections that they dismissed as a cover...

Kazakhstan

Jihadists kill at least 17 Syrian troops in Aleppo province

By VOA,

Attacks by two jihadist groups killed at least 17 Syrian government troops and militiamen in the northern province of Aleppo early Saturday, a war mon...

Syrian

New Kazakh leader hands Nazarbayev’s daughter key post

By Reuters,

Kazakhstan’s new president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev handed the key post of senate speaker on Wednesday to a daughter of his predecessor Nursultan Nazar...

Kazakh , Nursultan Nazarbayev , President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

Kazakh President Nazarbayev abruptly announces resignation

By VOA,

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has abruptly resigned after nearly 30 years in office, but will continue to head the ruling party and keep his li...

Kazakh , President Nursultan Nazarbaev , Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev

Global oil supply to swamp demand in 2019 despite output cuts: IEA

By Reuters,

The global oil market will struggle this year to absorb fast-growing crude supply from outside OPEC, even with the group’s production cuts and U.S. ...

IEA , International Energy Agency , Oil , U.S. SANCTIONS

Zimbabweans take to the streets over rising cost of living

By VOA,

Growing tired of chronic economic hardships, hundreds of Zimbabweans took to the streets of Harare Monday, protesting an increase in the price of fuel...

Emmerson Mnangagwa , Zimbabweans

How a hacked phone may have led killers to Khashoggi

By CNN,

Jamal Khashoggi probably thought the messages he was sending to fellow Saudi dissident Omar Abdulaziz were hidden, cloaked in WhatsApp security. In re...

Jamal Khashoggi , NSO Group , Pegasus

Kyrgyzstan Women Fight to End Bride Kidnapping

By VOA,

Walking proudly down a catwalk, the lights and glamour seemed like a lifetime away from Elzat Kazakbaeva’s nightmare ordeal five years ago when she ...

U.S. oil edges up after tumbling to lowest since June 2017 on economy fears

By Reuters,

Oil prices were mixed on Wednesday as the U.S. benchmark rebounded from steep losses in the previous session, even though concern over the health of t...

Alexander Novak , Kanat Bozumbayev , Margaret Yang , President Donald Trump

Migrant workers’ struggles push Uzbekistan to open up

By Reuters,

Maksud Mahmudov was among millions of Uzbeks who left their impoverished homeland as soon as they finished school to find work in Russia. In 2014, he ...

Maksud Mahmudov , Shavkat Mirziyoyev , World Bank

China’s paranoia and oppression has a long history

By CNN,

China finally admitted this week what had been widely reported: that it is interning thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people in "re-educati...

china , Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang , Xinjiang

Assassination attempt and protest send warning to Azerbaijan’s rulers

By Reuters,

An assassination attempt and protest in Azerbaijan’s second city have sent a warning to the ruling elite that discontent is simmering in the tightly...

Assassination attempt , Azerbaijan , Islamist rule in Azerbaijan , Oil-producing state

World cities go dark as Earth Hour climate campaign circles globe

By AFP,

The Sydney Opera House, the Eiffel Tower and Moscow's Red Square were among the world landmarks to go dark Saturday, as part of a global campaign to r...

Australia , Moscow's Red Square , President Emmanuel Macron , Ria Novisti news agency , Sydney Opera House , Sydneysider Dianna Ali , the Eiffel Tower , UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres