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Germans mourn attack on Christmas market with no answers about why

Germans mourn attack on Christmas market with no answers about why

MAGDEBURG, GERMANY — Germans on Saturday mourned a violent attack and their shaken sense of security after a Saudi doctor intentionally...

Trump adds EU to list of trade partners he threatens with tariffs

Trump adds EU to list of trade partners he threatens with tariffs

WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday added the 27 countries that make up the European Union to...

Amid pope’s big Holy Year, overtourism aggravates housing crisis

Amid pope’s big Holy Year, overtourism aggravates housing crisis

When Pope Francis left the Vatican earlier this month for his traditional Christmastime outing downtown, he acknowledged what many Romans...

Ukraine strike kills 6 in Russia’s Kursk region

Ukraine strike kills 6 in Russia’s Kursk region

Ukraine attacked a town in Russia’s Kursk region Friday, killing six people, including a child, a senior local official said....

Musk backs German far-right party in social media post

Musk backs German far-right party in social media post

Elon Musk, the billionaire ally of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, has praised the far-right Alterative for Germany party ahead of...

VOA Russian: Moscow ramped up repressions against journalists and LGBTQ+ in 2024

VOA Russian: Moscow ramped up repressions against journalists and LGBTQ+ in 2024

VOA Russian spoke to OVD-Info, Russia’s most trusted watchdog dealing with political arrests and trials. It said 620 people were...

US charges Russian Israeli dual national tied to Lockbit ransomware group

US charges Russian Israeli dual national tied to Lockbit ransomware group

washington — The United States has charged a Russian Israeli dual citizen over alleged involvement with the Lockbit ransomware group, the...

Moscow leverages killing of Russian general to spread conspiracy theories

Moscow leverages killing of Russian general to spread conspiracy theories

Igor Kirillov had overseen the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine and regularly spread disinformation about the West developing bioweapons...

At least 2 dead, 60 hurt after car drives into German Christmas market

At least 2 dead, 60 hurt after car drives into German Christmas market

MAGDEBURG, GERMANY — A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday,...

New US missile defense base in Poland fortifies NATO’s eastern flank

New US missile defense base in Poland fortifies NATO’s eastern flank

The United States last month formally opened a permanent military base in Poland, part of NATO’s missile defense system amid...

Elon Musk considers funding Nigel Farage’s populist party in UK

Elon Musk considers funding Nigel Farage’s populist party in UK

LONDON — It’s a photo that sent a tremor through British politics: Elon Musk flanked by British politician Nigel Farage and...

Finding home: Ukrainian teens adjust to life in New York

Finding home: Ukrainian teens adjust to life in New York

For Ukrainian teens displaced by war, adjusting to life in a new country is a complex journey. In New York...

Elon Musk gives nod to German far-right party as election looms 

Elon Musk gives nod to German far-right party as election looms 

U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, set to join President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, waded into Germany’s election campaign on Friday, calling the...

Russia hands 16-year prison term to east Ukraine resident for ‘treason’ 

Russia hands 16-year prison term to east Ukraine resident for ‘treason’ 

Moscow — Russia on Friday sentenced a resident of east Ukraine’s Lugansk region to 16 years in prison for “high treason,”...

Russian missiles target Kyiv after Ukraine fires US-made missiles across the border

Russian missiles target Kyiv after Ukraine fires US-made missiles across the border

KYIV, UKRAINE — A Russian ballistic missile attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv early Friday killed at least one person and injured...

VOA Russian: Europe targets Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’

VOA Russian: Europe targets Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’

Leaders of 12 European countries agreed at a meeting in Tallinn to expand sanctions against Russia’s “shadow fleet” that is...

VOA Russian: Defense minister charts Kremlin’s path toward a war with NATO

VOA Russian: Defense minister charts Kremlin’s path toward a war with NATO

Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov said that a conflict between Russia and NATO is possible within the next decade. VOA...

Anger and soul-searching follow sentences in French rape trial

Anger and soul-searching follow sentences in French rape trial

PARIS — Feminists and other critics say the sentences handed down in France’s mass rape trial are too lenient with some...

US slow to react to pervasive Chinese hacking, experts say

US slow to react to pervasive Chinese hacking, experts say

As new potential threats from Chinese hackers were identified this week, the federal government issued one of its strongest warnings...

French court finds 51 defendants guilty in mass rape trial

French court finds 51 defendants guilty in mass rape trial

After a French court Thursday found all 51 defendants guilty in a drugging-and-rape case, the victim, Gisele Pelicot said that...

Trump pushes for conflict-ending Ukraine-Russia ‘deal’

Trump pushes for conflict-ending Ukraine-Russia ‘deal’

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump says the leaders of Ukraine and Russia should be “prepared to make a deal” to end...

France’s Macron visits cyclone-devastated Mayotte as residents plead for aid

France’s Macron visits cyclone-devastated Mayotte as residents plead for aid

MAMOUDZOU, MAYOTTE — French President Emmanuel Macron arrived Thursday in the Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte to survey Cyclone Chido’s destruction...