Posts by Newsmaker

Greek Police Arrest Suspect in 1985 TWA Hijacking, Killing of Navy Diver

Greek Police Arrest Suspect in 1985 TWA Hijacking, Killing of Navy Diver

Greek police said Saturday they have arrested a suspect in the 1985 hijacking of a flight from Athens that became...

Denmark Hopes to Set Example With Ambitious Carbon-Cutting Program

Denmark Hopes to Set Example With Ambitious Carbon-Cutting Program

A senior Danish official says his country hopes to set an example for the world with an ambitious scheme to...

Trump Denies Pressuring Ukraine to Probe Company Linked to Biden’s Son

Trump Denies Pressuring Ukraine to Probe Company Linked to Biden’s Son

U.S. President Donald Trump is denying he said anything “wrong” in a telephone conversation with the new president of Ukraine...

More than 100 Arrested in Paris ‘Yellow Vest’ Protests

More than 100 Arrested in Paris ‘Yellow Vest’ Protests

Over a hundred demonstrators were arrested at yellow vest protests in Paris on Saturday as about 7,500 police were deployed...

Could Smart Mirrors Get Consumers Offline and Into Shops?

Could Smart Mirrors Get Consumers Offline and Into Shops?

With online shopping becoming more and more popular, traditional retail stores are doing everything they can to get shoppers to...

Naftogaz Chief: Ukraine Can Still Supply Gas to Europe in Early 2020 Without Russia Deal

Naftogaz Chief: Ukraine Can Still Supply Gas to Europe in Early 2020 Without Russia Deal

The head of Ukraine’s state-owned oil company says Kyiv will remain able to supply Europe with natural gas from its...

Dozens Arrested in Paris ‘Yellow Vest’ Protests

Dozens Arrested in Paris ‘Yellow Vest’ Protests

Dozens of demonstrators were arrested at yellow vest protests in Paris on Saturday as more than 7,000 police were deployed...

Trump Renews Threat to Dump IS Fighters at Europe’s Border

Trump Renews Threat to Dump IS Fighters at Europe’s Border

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday renewed threats to dump captured Islamic State fighters on Europe’s doorstep if countries there...

Paris Police Gird For Weekend Protests Over Macron, Climate

Paris Police Gird For Weekend Protests Over Macron, Climate

Paris is deploying thousands of police to protect landmarks and government buildings as yellow vest groups, unions and environmental activists...

Google Plans to Invest 3 Billion Euros in Europe

Google Plans to Invest 3 Billion Euros in Europe

Google is planning to invest 3 billion euros to expand its data centers across Europe in the next two years.The...

Harry and Meghan Make 1st Official Tour as Family in Africa

Harry and Meghan Make 1st Official Tour as Family in Africa

Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, along with their infant son, Archie, are making their first official tour as a...

Ukraine Preparing More Troop Withdrawals

Ukraine Preparing More Troop Withdrawals

Hints of another exchange of prisoners, talk of a bilateral withdrawal of combat soldiers and heavy weaponry from the 450-kilometer...

Senate Tech Critic to Facebook CEO: Sell WhatsApp, Instagram

Senate Tech Critic to Facebook CEO: Sell WhatsApp, Instagram

As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met Thursday with President Donald Trump and other critics of the tech industry, the Senate’s...

Envoy Insists Brexit Must Produce No ‘Hard Border’ With Irish Republic 

Envoy Insists Brexit Must Produce No ‘Hard Border’ With Irish Republic 

As the Oct. 31 Brexit deadline approaches, Ireland’s ambassador to the United States is expressing a degree of optimism that...

Russia, Ukraine Move Ahead With EU Talks to Avert Supply Cut

Russia, Ukraine Move Ahead With EU Talks to Avert Supply Cut

This story originated in VOA’s Ukraine’s Minister of Energy and Environmental Protection Oleksiy Orzhel attends a news conference at the...

French Experts Restore Three Sudanese Relics 

French Experts Restore Three Sudanese Relics 

A team of French diggers has restored three Sudanese artifacts, including a 3,500-year-old wall relief, and it handed them to...

Huawei Faces Public Test as it Unveils Sanction-Hit Phone

Huawei Faces Public Test as it Unveils Sanction-Hit Phone

Chinese tech giant Huawei launched its latest high-end smartphone in Munich on Thursday, the first of its mobile devices not...

Macron Says Yellow Vest Crisis ‘Very Good For Me’

Macron Says Yellow Vest Crisis ‘Very Good For Me’

President Emmanuel Macron has said he believes the yellow vest protests that rocked France since last year have been good...

Support for Independence Seen Waning in Spain’s Catalonia

Support for Independence Seen Waning in Spain’s Catalonia

When Spain’s national anthem blared from a hotel balcony during Catalonia’s National Day ceremonies last week, regional police cut electricity...

At 98, D-Day Vet Jumps Again, With Eyes on the Big 100

At 98, D-Day Vet Jumps Again, With Eyes on the Big 100

Jump by jump, 98-year-old D-Day veteran Tom Rice is nudging closer to his goal of leaping out of planes at...

Belgian Fighter Jet Crashes in France, Pilot Hits Power Line

Belgian Fighter Jet Crashes in France, Pilot Hits Power Line

A Belgian F-16 fighter jet crashed Thursday on a road in western France and one of its pilots is hanging...

California Police Employs Robocop to Patrol Parks

California Police Employs Robocop to Patrol Parks

The city of Huntington Park in the state of California has hired a new police office to patrol local parks....