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A Bahrain court sentenced rights campaigner Nabeel Rajab to two years in jail on Monday, supporters said, for allegedly making "false or malicious" statements about Bahraini authorities. Authorities at Bahrain's information affairs office could not immediately be reached for comment. Bahrain has repeatedly denied systematic rights abuses. The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) said Rajab had been unable to attend the trial, having been at an interior ministry hospital since his health deteriorated in April. Читать дальше...

Villagers in Iraq's Kirkuk region are struggling with land mines planted by Islamic State fighters as they were being ousted by coalition forces. A lack of explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) tools has hindered efforts to clear various villages of land mines. VOA's Dilshad Anwar reports.

From blocking off the office heliport to plotting protests, workers at Venezuela's prosecutor's office are making plans to fight her expected removal by allies of President Nicolas Maduro, according to three sources. Luisa Ortega, Venezuela's lead prosecutor and main challenger to Maduro from within the ruling socialist movement, has said she is expecting to be fired after alleging human rights abuses and erosion of democracy under the country's leftist president during three months of major anti-government protests. Читать дальше...

Hundreds of people filled the streets of Dakar outside the airport Monday to welcome former Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade, who has returned to lead his party into legislative elections after spending years abroad following a failed bid for a third term in office. The 91-year-old flew into Dakar Monday from Paris, accompanied by his wife Viviane. He retains a strong support base in Senegal, which is holding legislative elections July 30.   Wade has returned to head up the list of candidates for his opposition Senegalese Democratic Party. Читать дальше...

The United States deployed a battery of Patriot long-range anti-aircraft missiles in Lithuania to be used in NATO war games Tuesday — the first time the advanced defense system has been brought to the Baltics where Russia has air superiority. The Patriot battery was brought to the Siauliai military airbase Monday, ahead of the Tobruk Legacy exercise, and will be withdrawn when the exercise ends July 22, a Lithuanian defense ministry spokeswoman told Reuters. The NATO war games take place ahead... Читать дальше...

Mexico's Roman Catholic Church said in an editorial that Mexicans can't feel safe anywhere, as homicides rise throughout the country. The statement Sunday by the Mexican Council of Bishops came on the same day that the bodies of two men and a woman were left at the entrance to a once-quiet, exclusive beach resort. “This is not a single corner of this country where Mexicans can feel safe and live in peace,”  The bishops' council wrote in an editorial. Prosecutors in the state of Baja California... Читать дальше...

Israel's Labor Party has elected political newcomer Avi Gabbay as its new leader, with hopes to revive its fortunes after 16 years in the opposition. Gabbay, 50, defeated Amir Peretz, a former party leader and defense minister, by a small margin in a runoff vote Monday. Gabbay served a brief stint as environment minister under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but later resigned. A former telecom executive, Gabbay stresses his humble beginnings. He was the seventh of eight children born to immigrants from Morocco. Читать дальше...

At least six Hindu pilgrims were fatally shot by suspected militants in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said Monday. The victims were among nearly 50 people traveling on an annual pilgrimage when their vehicle was attacked by what local police suspect were separatists fighting against Indian rule in Kashmir. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place in the Anantnag district. Security precautions, police numbers and internet restrictions were increased in Kashmir... Читать дальше...

The U.N.-backed Cambodian tribunal trying Khmer Rouge leaders for atrocities committed while they ruled the country acknowledged Monday that only a handful of former high-ranking officials will face justice for their crimes. The tribunal explained in a statement the dismissal in February of a case against Im Chaem, a middle-ranking Khmer Rouge district chief whom prosecutors had charged with crimes against humanity, including murder, extermination and enslavement. The statement said the court's... Читать дальше...

Severe food crises are growing in Kenya and Somalia, as the Horn of Africa continues to receive below-normal rainfall, according to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network. The hunger-tracking group says 2.9 million people in Kenya and 3.2 million in Somalia are experiencing Phase 3 or higher on the network's five-tier warning scale, with Phase 3 being the crisis stage and Phase 5 being a full-fledged famine. The numbers represent a jump of 800,000 in Kenya and 300,000 in Somalia since FEWSNET's last estimates, released in June. Читать дальше...

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is in Kuwait, in an effort to help resolve the impasse over the blockade of Qatar by its Persian Gulf neighbors Tillerson is also due to visit Saudi Arabia and Qatar this week. Tillerson met Monday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after a visit Sunday to Ukraine. Before leaving Turkey for Kuwait, senior communications adviser R.C. Hammond said the purpose of Tillerson's trip to several Gulf countries this week is to explore where a possible resolution can be found. Читать дальше...

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A federal appeals court on Monday revived a lawsuit seeking to force a Madrid museum to return an Impressionist masterpiece to the family of a Jewish woman who was compelled to sell it to a Nazi art appraiser for $360 in 1939 so she could flee Germany. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said two of Lilly Cassirer's great-grandchildren may sue the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum for the return of Camille Pissarro's 1897 depiction of a Paris street scene, "Rue Saint-Honoree, Apres-midi, Effet de Pluie."... Читать дальше...

The current, seventh round of U.N.-mediated peace talks aimed at ending the long-running conflict in Syria has opened with a sense of cautious optimism that things might be moving in the right direction. U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura says he does not expect a breakthrough in the negotiations, but he says there is a higher potential than has been seen in the past for progress to be made in ending a war he calls the most complex conflict of our time. He says some of the optimism... Читать дальше...

Claudia Lizardo and her boyfriend were riding a public bus in Venezuela's capital city one day in spring when the vehicle passed an anti-government demonstration, with people running from security forces amid clouds of tear gas. "There was a lot of anguish in the street," recalled Lizardo, a 29-year-old creative director for a digital content studio. But she was troubled that other riders seemed impassive. "The people ... were completely isolated." Or, maybe they weren't sufficiently aware, she... Читать дальше...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has formally declared victory over Islamic State in Mosul. Speaking from Mosul's Old City in a speech carried on state television, Abadi said the win is a victory over oppression, brutality and terrorism. “I declare in Mosul, from Mosul, to all people, the stop and failure and collapse of the terrorist Islamic State,” he said. Abadi said following the success in Mosul, the country still faces challenges, including destroying Islamic State terrorism cells that... Читать дальше...

A British court on Monday gave the parents of 11-month-old Charlie Gard a chance to present fresh evidence that their terminally ill son should receive experimental treatment. The decision came after an emotionally charged hearing in the wrenching case, during which Gard's mother wept in frustration and his father yelled at a lawyer. Judge Nicholas Francis gave the couple until Wednesday afternoon to present the evidence and set a new hearing for Thursday in a case that has drawn international attention. Читать дальше...

A panel appointed by Pakistan's Supreme Court to look into the financial wealth and overseas assets of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his children has recommended that a corruption case be brought against the family. The six-member Joint Investigation Team, or JIT, Monday presented the court with a detailed report which said, “There exists significant gap/disparity amongst the known and declared sources of income and wealth accumulated” by Sharif, his two sons, Hussain Nawaz and Hassan Nawaz, and daughter, Maryam Nawaz. Читать дальше...

Relatives of two of the three U.S. military trainers shot dead at the gate of a Jordanian air base last year have described the pain of their loss to a military court trying the alleged killer.   The family members attended a court hearing in Jordan's capital Monday and will remain until the verdict, expected next week.   A Jordanian soldier charged with murder in the shootings faces life in prison if convicted.   The soldier, who allegedly opened deadly fire on U.S. troops at the gate, has... Читать дальше...

Thousands of unaccompanied and separated refugee and migrant children risk exploitation, trafficking, abuse and violence because European asylum countries have failed to protect them, according to three leading humanitarian organizations. To remedy this situation, the United Nations' refugee agency (UNHCR), the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and International Rescue Committee (IRC) have devised a “Roadmap for Action” to protect vulnerable children arriving and staying in Europe. ”While the total number of arrivals to Europe has decreased... Читать дальше...

Egyptian police say they have killed six suspected members of the so-called Islamic State (IS) in a shootout. Security forces were carrying out a raid Monday on the militants' apartment hideout when the gunfight broke out.  All six suspected militants were killed. The abandoned apartment in the southern Egyptian town of Dairut, was being used as "an organizational base and to prepare to carry out a series of terrorist operations within the southern provinces," the interior ministry said in a statement on its Facebook page. Читать дальше...

A government-run laboratory in India announced Monday that is has developed a portable kit which can determine whether a sample contains beef in 30 minutes. The technology will be used in a number of police departments to minimize arrests and detentions of people suspected of selling or eating beef, which is banned in several states as cows are considered sacred by many members of India's Hindu majority. Currently, it can take days for laboratory results to determine the presence of beef in a sample... Читать дальше...

U.S. President Donald Trump pointedly pushed the Republican-controlled Congress Monday to overhaul the U.S. health care law championed by former President Barack Obama before it leaves on its annual August vacation, but lawmakers have not agreed on how to repeal and replace it. "I cannot imagine that Congress would dare to leave Washington without a beautiful new HealthCare bill fully approved and ready to go!" Trump said in a Twitter comment. He said that before he became president he listened to Republican calls to dump Obama's law... Читать дальше...

A cholera outbreak in Yemen "continues to spiral out of control," according to the International Committee of the Red Cross, which says there are now over 300,000 suspected cases of the water-borne disease. The country is also struggling to battle famine in the midst of a two-year war between a Saudi-led coalition and Shiite rebels who control the capital city of Sana'a. The World Food Program has reported that two-thirds of Yemen's population does not know where their next meal will come from. Читать дальше...

A call by the Israeli ambassador to Hungary for an end to the billboard campaign against George Soros wasn't meant to "delegitimize" criticism of the Hungarian-American billionaire, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said Sunday. The ministry's statement was in response to a Facebook post by Ambassador Yossi Amrani, who said the Hungarian government's billboards not only evoke "sad memories, but also sow hatred and fear." The ministry said the "sole purpose" of the ambassador's statement was to express... Читать дальше...