Rong Shi in VOA’s Mandarin service contributed to this report. Amazon says it is investigating claims of worker abuse at a factory in China after a labor rights group found…
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your ad hereItalians take their August beach holidays very seriously and politicians traditionally avoid disturbing them for fear of losing votes. But Matteo Salvini has little time for tradition and nowhere is…
your ad hereWalmart is removing from its stores nationwide signs, displays or videos that depict violence following a mass shooting at one of its stores in Texas, though it has not changed…
your ad hereThe death of the Khmer Rouge’s top ideologue may end criminal proceedings against him even though his appeal against convictions for genocide and other crimes is still pending, a spokesman…
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your ad hereAt least 37 people have been killed in fresh fighting this week between rival ethnic groups in Chad, President Idriss Deby said on Friday. The violence broke out over three…
your ad hereIsraelis and Palestinians are bracing for an expected new peace plan announcement from Washington, which President Donald Trump has called the Deal of the Century. Yet there is deep mistrust…
your ad hereSecurity forces in Burkina Faso have sealed off an Avesoro gold mine after a security guard killed an intruder and local people attacked the site in retaliation, security sources said…
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your ad hereMore than 2 million Muslims are in Saudi Arabia at Mecca, Islam’s holiest site, for the yearly Hajj pilgrimage. The Hajj is one of the world’s largest religious gatherings. The…
your ad hereUpdated Aug. 9, 6:09 a.m. HONG KONG — Thousands of protesters returned to Hong Kong International Airport for the second time in as many weeks Friday to raise global attention…
your ad hereAuthorities plan to relax curbs in India’s Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir to allow people to offer Friday prayers, media said, as a five-day lockdown damped protests over the…
your ad hereIn the wake of the recent mass shooting tragedies in Texas and Ohio, the Democrats running for president have intensified their criticism of President Donald Trump and what they say…
your ad hereHundreds of immigrant workers detained in Mississippi were released Thursday, a day after federal agents arrested 680 undocumented migrants in raids on food-processing plants, the largest such operation in the United…
your ad hereA U.S. judge ruled that the Trump administration cannot withhold millions of dollars in law enforcement grants from Oregon to force the nation’s first sanctuary state to cooperate with U.S….
your ad hereThe S&P 500 registered its largest one-day percentage gain in about two months Thursday, with technology shares providing the biggest boost as equities continued to rebound along with bond yields….
your ad hereAfghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS), the country’s intelligence agency, released a video showing its special forces attacking Islamic State sleeper cells in rural areas of Kabul on Wednesday. The…
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