August 11, 2017 0 Venezuelan Leader Wants a Face-to-Face Meeting with Trump Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro said Thursday he wants to meet the man who hit him with sanctions, U.S. President Donald Trump, ...
August 11, 2017 0 War Threats Have Become Background Noise in South Korea Heated rhetoric between the United States and North Korea are raising concern in much of the world that a major conflict is ...
August 10, 2017 0 Experts Debate Pros and Cons of Lethal Arms for Ukraine U.S. military experts are lining up on either side of a debate on whether to supply lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine, a move ...
August 10, 2017 0 EEOC Finds Reasonable Cause Cargill Violated the Rights of Somali-American Muslim Workers The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has determined there is reasonable cause that the civil rights of ...
August 10, 2017 0 Guam’s Governor Talks to VOA About North Korean Threat Guam’s governor says his Pacific island is concerned but not in a panic in the face of new threats by North Korea to launch ...
August 10, 2017 0 War College Holds Conference About Women, Peace and Security An annual conference is being held at the U.S. Naval War College to discuss empowering women in conflict prevention and peace. ...
August 10, 2017 0 With ‘Watch,’ Facebook Takes Big Step Toward TV Facebook on Wednesday made its biggest move to date to compete in the television market by expanding its video offerings with ...
August 10, 2017 0 Hard-pedaling Soft Power, China Helps Launch $13B Belt and Road Rail Project in Malaysia China and Malaysia broke ground on Wednesday on a $13 billion rail project linking peninsular Malaysia’s east and west, the ...
August 10, 2017 0 Venezuela Exchange Rate Fluctuation Sparks Price Surge The extreme volatility of Venezuela’s exchange rate has the crisis-hit country’s shop owners hurriedly marking up ...
August 10, 2017 0 Hurricane Franklin Heads for Mexican Gulf Coast Hurricane warnings are out for parts of the central Gulf coast of Mexico after Tropical Storm Franklin strengthened Wednesday ...
August 10, 2017 0 Russian Surveillance Plane Buzzes US Capitol — Legally A low-flying Russian airplane created a buzz in the nation’s capital Wednesday, but it turns out the surveillance flight over ...
August 9, 2017 0 Scientists Find Potential Building Block of Life on Titan When astronomers look for life, they generally look for water. The saying goes that where there is water, there is life. But some ...
August 9, 2017 0 Transgender Kids Blossom in Summer Camp Just for Them Many summer camps in the U.S. focus on a single activity – baseball, computers. Many target specific groups – Jewish ...
August 9, 2017 0 Will New Sanctions Restrain Kim Jong Un? Maybe Not As the U.S. and its allies welcome the latest U.N. sanctions against North Korea as a good, incremental step to increase pressure ...
August 9, 2017 0 Kenya Voters Face Glitches, Long Lines in High-Tech Polling Stations Vote counting continues in Kenya after nationwide elections Tuesday, with President Uhuru Kenyatta taking a strong lead against ...
August 9, 2017 0 Venezuela’s New Constituent Assembly Says Its Decisions Override All Others Venezuela’s newly established constituent assembly declared itself Tuesday to be above all other branches of government, ...
August 8, 2017 0 Tillerson Visits Thailand for Trade, Security Talks U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has made a short visit to Thailand for talks on trade and regional security matters, ...
August 8, 2017 0 Zuma’s Fate to Be Decided in Parliamentary No-Confidence Vote South African lawmakers have started debating a no-confidence motion that could drive long-serving President Jacob Zuma from ...
August 8, 2017 0 Australians Prepare to Vote on Gay Marriage Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the government will hold a vote later this year that could put the country one ...
August 8, 2017 0 Google Engineer Fired Over Memo Casting Doubt on Need for Gender Diversity U.S. technology giant Google has fired a male engineer who wrote a memo questioning the need for gender diversity programs in the ...
August 8, 2017 0 Animals Use Computer Touch Screens in Research and for Fun The penguins at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California have something in common with Sara Mandel’s cats. ...
August 7, 2017 0 Israeli Court: Netanyahu Must Show Call Logs with US Backer Israel’s Supreme Court ruled Benjamin Netanyahu must reveal phone call logs with U.S. casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and a ...
August 7, 2017 0 2 Members of Russian Punk Band Pussy Riot Detained Two members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot were briefly detained Monday after rallying for the release of a ...