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The approval rating of Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski fell this month amid a bitter political battle with the opposition that saw the resignation of his economy minister, according to a poll released on Sunday. Kuczynski's approval rating fell to 34 percent in July from 39 percent in June, while his disapproval rating rose to 58 percent from 51 percent last month, the monthly poll conducted by Ipsos Peru and published in local newspaper El Comercio showed. In late June, Congress - dominated... Читать дальше...

A severed marine cable has left Somalia without internet for weeks, triggering losses for businesses, residents said, and adding a layer of chaos in a country where Islamist insurgents are carrying out a campaign of bombings and killings. Abdi Anshuur, Somalia's minister for posts and telecommunications, told state radio that internet to the Horn of Africa state went down a month ago after a ship cut an undersea cable connecting it to global data networks. Businesses have had to close or improvise... Читать дальше...

Facebook is fighting a court order that blocks the social media giant from letting users know when law enforcement investigators ask to search their online information, particularly their political affiliations and comments. Major technology companies and civil liberties groups have joined Facebook in the case, which resembles legal challenges throughout the country from technology companies that oppose how the government seeks access to internet data in emails or social media accounts during criminal investigations... Читать дальше...

Thousands of people rallied in Warsaw Sunday to oppose the Polish government's controversial new court reforms which opponents see as a threat to judicial independence. Chanting "we will defend democracy" and waving EU and Polish flags, around 4,500 protesters attended demonstrations in the Polish capital, according to police. Smaller rallies were held in other cities throughout the country. The law passed last week gives lawmakers a dominant role in appointing judges, a move that opposition... Читать дальше...

Egyptian police on Sunday fired tear gas to disperse a rock-pelting crowd of residents on a River Nile island in Cairo, clashes that left one person dead and 50 others injured, according to authorities. The Health Ministry said a resident was killed and said 19 others were wounded in the clashes on al-Waraq island on the northern fringes of the Egyptian capital. It did not say how the man was killed. An Interior Ministry statement said a total of 31 - policemen as well as contractors who arrived... Читать дальше...

“Sir, my father was an Islamic State militant, but he divorced my mother in 2013,” said Jassem Mohammad, 21, pulling out his identification card and presenting it to the camp manager.  “He now has two other wives.”   In a tiny patch of shade on the edge of a blistering desert camp outside of Mosul, the manager listened as Mohammad made his case.  He wanted to leave the camp and go back to college.  He had good scores, he said, and was never involved with IS.   Militant rule in Mosul has collapsed and IS fighters here are dead... Читать дальше...

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The fate of Republican efforts to overhaul the U.S. health care policies championed by former President Barack Obama remained in doubt Sunday, with one key vote delayed that had been set for this week. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell postponed a procedural vote after Republican Senator John McCain had an operation Saturday to remove a blood clot above his left eye and announced he would remain in his home state of Arizona for a week to recover. His absence could have deprived Republicans... Читать дальше...

Pakistan’s military launched a major ground offensive Sunday to clear an isolated militant-infested border valley that Islamic State loyalists are using to export terrorism into the country from its bases in neighboring Afghanistan, where the group is "gaining strength", said an army spokesman. Major-General Asif Ghafoor told reporters that the operation dubbed Khyber-4 has been tasked with eliminating militant hideouts from an area of about 250-square kilometers in the Rajgal valley. He said militants linked to pro-IS groups... Читать дальше...

Venezuelans are casting ballots in an unofficial opposition organized "referendum" Sunday on President Nicolas Maduro's bid to hold a July 30 election for a new assembly tasked with drafting a new constitution. Dozens of people lined up ahead of the 7 a.m. open of polls Sunday morning, and throughout the day thousands more lined up to cast their votes, the opposition said Sunday. Fourteen million ballots were printed ahead of the referendum. The polls will close at 4 p.m., but remain open as long as voters are still in line. Читать дальше...

Swiss tennis star Roger Federer has won a record 8th Wimbledon title, defeating Croatia's Marin Cilic in straight sets, 6-3, 6-1, 6-4.

Venezuelan expatriates began voting in hundreds of cities worldwide on Sunday in an unofficial plebiscite that aims to challenge President Nicolas Maduro and his plans to rewrite the constitution. With improvised polling stations in more than 80 countries, Venezuelan expatriates are predicted to turn out in force for the vote, which comes amid three months of anti-government protests that have led to nearly 100 deaths. Protesters say Maduro is seeking to consolidate a dictatorship in the oil-rich... Читать дальше...

President Donald Trump lashed out at the U.S. media Sunday, accusing it of "DISTORTING DEMOCRACY" in its reports on his eldest son's meeting last year with a Russian lawyer he thought would hand him incriminating information about Democrat Hillary Clinton ahead of the 2016 election. In a string of Twitter comments from his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump defended Donald Trump Jr., who met with Natalia Veselnitskaya in June 2016 after being told by an intermediary that she was a Russian... Читать дальше...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has inaugurated a monument to commemorate the 250 people who died opposing a military coup a year ago . The monument opposite Erdogan’s huge presidential palace depicts Turkey’s national symbol, the moon and crescent. With tens of thousands of people attending, the inauguration ceremony after dawn prayers Sunday was called from presidential palace’s mosque. “Be sure, that none of the traitors who point a gun at our country, nation, freedom and future... Читать дальше...

Gibraltar will not be a victim of Brexit and has had guarantees from the British government it will not do a trade deal with the European Union which doesn't include the territory, its chief minister said on Sunday. The future of Gibraltar, a rocky enclave on the southern tip of Spain captured by Britain in 1704, and its 30,000 inhabitants is set to be a major point of contention in Brexit negotiations. The EU annoyed Britain and Gibraltar in April by offering Spain a right of veto over the territory's post-Brexit relationship with the bloc. Читать дальше...

An Iranian court sentenced a U.S. citizen to 10 years in prison on "infiltration"charges, Iran's judicial spokesman said Sunday. "The person was identified and arrested by the intelligence forces. The court has sentenced the person to 10 years," deputy judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejeie said in a televised news conference. The individual, whose name was not released, is a dual citizen of the United States and another unspecified country, Ejeie added. Iran has detained and sentenced several dual nationals from the United States... Читать дальше...

Turkey's main opposition party says the government is blocking a full investigation into last summer's failed coup attempt and using the state of emergency imposed in its wake to hide the truth. Bulent Tezcan, the spokesman of the Republican People's Party or CHP, said the government was using the commemorations for the anniversary of the failed July 15, 2016, coup to ``write a fabricated history.''   Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed tens of thousands of people at memorial events in Istanbul and Ankara this weekend. Читать дальше...

A bus plunged into a 45-meter-deep (150-foot-deep) gorge in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Sunday, killing at least 16 Hindu pilgrims on their way to a cave shrine in the Himalayas. Police officer S.P. Vaid said the bus swerved off a mountain road and injured dozens. The cause of the accident was not immediately clear.   A police statement said 27 injured, 19 in critical condition, were taken to hospitals in Banihal, a town 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of Srinagar, the main city in Indian-held Kashmir. Читать дальше...

After months of delay, the Trump administration is finalizing plans to revamp the nation's military command for defensive and offensive cyber operations in hopes of intensifying America's ability to wage cyberwar against the Islamic State group and other foes, according to U.S. officials. Under the plans, U.S. Cyber Command would eventually be split off from the intelligence-focused National Security Agency. Details are still being worked out, but officials say they expect a decision and announcement in the coming weeks. Читать дальше...

Five Congo park rangers have been found dead and an American journalist has been found in good condition in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve after going missing during a militia attack, a local official said Sunday. "The American journalist is safe and healthy. She hid in the forest during an attack," Mambasa territory administrator Alfred Bongwalanga told The Associated Press. "On the other hand, five park guards have been killed." Bongwalanga said the army found the American overnight Saturday, and called in her rescue. Читать дальше...

French President Emmanuel Macron and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are honoring the victims of a mass deportation of French Jews to Nazi camps 75 years ago. French Jewish leaders are giving speeches at an emotional ceremony at the Vel d'Hiv stadium outside Paris, where French police rounded up some 13,000 people on July 16-17, 1942, before they were sent on to camps. Fewer than 100 survived.   Pro-Palestinian and other activists protested Netanyahu's appearance, criticizing Jewish settlement policy and the blockade of Gaza. Читать дальше...

French President Emmanuel Macron says his glamorous Paris charm offensive on Donald Trump might have changed the U.S. president's mind about climate change.   Macron defended his outreach to Trump, saying in an interview Sunday in the Journal du dimanche newspaper "our countries are friends, so we should be too."   After a tense, white-knuckle handshake at their first meeting in May, Macron said they gained "better, intimate knowledge of each other" during Trump's visit last week.   Macron... Читать дальше...

When he woke July 5 to news that more than 100 people had been shot in the city of Chicago over the long Independence Day holiday weekend — 15 of them fatally — 16-year-old Carlos Yanez shrugged it off. “After a while, you just get used to it,” Carlos said. “I mean, what can you do? We don’t have no one helping us. What can we do?” Gun violence plagues Chicago, a city of more than 2.7 million, where nearly 2,000 people have been shot so far this year. Though the number of shootings is slightly down from last year... Читать дальше...

The resignation last week of the U.S. government’s top ethics official after he clashed with the Trump administration has renewed debate over whether to strengthen the little-known agency. Walter Shaub called for tougher rules at the Office of Government Ethics as he announced his resignation after almost five years as its head. “In working with the current administration, it has become clear that we need to strengthen the ethics program,” Shaub said. ​Watchdog needs teeth Many ethics experts agree. Читать дальше...

Gun violence continues to plague Chicago, Illinois, where nearly 2,000 people have been shot this year. Though the overall number is slightly down from last year, the Trump administration has ordered more federal agents to assist state and local law enforcement. VOA's Kane Farabaugh reports from the largely Hispanic Back of the Yards neighborhood, that the beefed up police presence has not calmed the nerves of those most vulnerable to the continuing violence.