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Apple CEO Warns Trump About China Tariffs, Samsung Competition

Apple CEO Warns Trump About China Tariffs, Samsung Competition

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he has spoken with Apple Inc’s Chief Executive Tim Cook about the...

Leaked UK Memos Warn of Food, Drug Shortages in Brexit Chaos

Leaked UK Memos Warn of Food, Drug Shortages in Brexit Chaos

Secret British government documents have warned of serious disruptions across the country in the event that the U.K. leaves the...

Migrants Jump off Rescue Boat to Try to Reach Italian Island

Migrants Jump off Rescue Boat to Try to Reach Italian Island

Several migrants jumped into the sea from a Spanish rescue boat Sunday in a thwarted bid to reach shore in...

Charity Rejects Spanish Offer to Take in African Migrants that Italy Rejected

Charity Rejects Spanish Offer to Take in African Migrants that Italy Rejected

Last update: 11:30 a.m.A Spanish humanitarian group on Sunday rejected Spain’s offer to take in more than 100 mostly African...

Merkel: We’re prepared for Any Brexit Outcome

Merkel: We’re prepared for Any Brexit Outcome

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday that she would meet British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday evening to...

Seized Iranian Tanker Expected to Leave Gibraltar

Seized Iranian Tanker Expected to Leave Gibraltar

Last update: 1:45 p. m.Iran said its seized oil tanker was expected to leave Gibraltar on Sunday after authorities there...

Italy’s Salvini Tells Ship with 107 Migrants to Go to Spain

Italy’s Salvini Tells Ship with 107 Migrants to Go to Spain

Seeking to end a humanitarian crisis, Spain says a Spanish rescue boat with 107 migrants in the southern Mediterranean can...

Intelligent Threat-Sensing Building on Horizon

Intelligent Threat-Sensing Building on Horizon

As back to back mass shootings in the U.S. prompt more difficult debates on gun laws, researchers at University of...

Times, Citing Official Documents: UK Faces Food, Fuel and Drugs Shortages in No-Deal Brexit

Times, Citing Official Documents: UK Faces Food, Fuel and Drugs Shortages in No-Deal Brexit

Britain will face shortages of fuel, food and medicine if it leaves the European Union without a transition deal, jamming...

UK Parliament Can’t Stop Brexit, Johnson to Tell Macron, Merkel

UK Parliament Can’t Stop Brexit, Johnson to Tell Macron, Merkel

LONDON – Prime Minister Boris Johnson will tell French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel that his nation’s Parliament cannot...

Wildfire Prompts Evacuations in Canary Islands 

Wildfire Prompts Evacuations in Canary Islands 

TEJEDA, SPAIN – A wildfire in the Canary Islands led to the evacuation of a small town in Gran Canaria island on Saturday,...

Iranian Tanker to Leave Gibraltar Soon Despite US Pressure

Iranian Tanker to Leave Gibraltar Soon Despite US Pressure

The shipping agent for an Iranian supertanker caught in a diplomatic standoff says the vessel is ready to depart Gibraltar...

Italy’s Salvini Agrees to Disembark Minors on Migrant Ship

Italy’s Salvini Agrees to Disembark Minors on Migrant Ship

Italy’s hard-line interior minister appeared to buckle under pressure Saturday to ease the political standoff over a migrant rescue ship...

Rally, Pickets Call for Fair Moscow Elections

Rally, Pickets Call for Fair Moscow Elections

About 4,000 people have held a rally in Moscow to demand fairness in upcoming city council elections, and solo pickets...

US Says It Has Warrant to Seize Iranian Oil Tanker

US Says It Has Warrant to Seize Iranian Oil Tanker

Updated at 9:36 p.m. Aug. 16.VOA Persian’s Katherine Ahn contributed to this report.The U.S. government said Friday that it had...

In Uganda’s Capital, Huawei Adds Cameras Capable of Facial Recognition

In Uganda’s Capital, Huawei Adds Cameras Capable of Facial Recognition

Lawmakers in the United States have long been wary of Chinese telecom giant Huawei. They say the corporation is unlike...

Iranian Oil Tanker Remains Off Gibraltar Despite Court Ruling

Iranian Oil Tanker Remains Off Gibraltar Despite Court Ruling

VOA Persian’s Katherine Ahn contributed to this report.An Iranian supertanker caught in a diplomatic standoff off the coast of the...

30th Anniversary of Berlin Wall’s Tumble Prompts Democracy Debate

30th Anniversary of Berlin Wall’s Tumble Prompts Democracy Debate

Thirty years ago, the Iron Curtain dividing Europe lifted.  Next week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel travels to Hungary to commemorate...

Trump Not First US President Who Wants Greenland

Trump Not First US President Who Wants Greenland

The government of Greenland is dismissing the idea that the island is for sale, following media reports that U.S. President...

Google Employees Call for Pledge Not to Work With ICE

Google Employees Call for Pledge Not to Work With ICE

Hundreds of Google employees are calling on the company to pledge it won’t work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection...

17 Chinese, Ukrainian Seamen Kidnapped off Cameroon Coast

17 Chinese, Ukrainian Seamen Kidnapped off Cameroon Coast

Nine Chinese and eight Ukrainian seamen were abducted Thursday when two merchant vessels came under attack in Cameroonian waters in...

Iranian Oil Tanker Freed by Gibraltar Despite US Appeal

Iranian Oil Tanker Freed by Gibraltar Despite US Appeal

Updated Aug. 15, 8:20 p.m. VOA Persian’s Katherine Ahn contributed to this report.The British overseas territory of Gibraltar turned back U.S....