Новости за 05.04.2023

Israel has increased its air raids in Syria, targeting positions belonging to the Syrian government and Iranian forces. In recent days, suspected Israeli airstrikes hit such targets in four different occasions. The most recent strike on Monday hit an area near the Syrian capital, Damascus, according to Syrian state media and an opposition war monitor. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, or SOHR, said the alleged Israeli strikes on Damascus targeted Syrian government and Iranian positions... Читать дальше...

Native American communities in the Pacific Northwest have led a decades long fight to remove hydroelectric dams that environmentalists say harm the migration of salmon. The Inside Story will examine the balance between helping wildlife and the need for more clean, renewable energy.

Transcript:  The Inside Story: Undamming The Klamath  What’s at stake in America’s Biggest-Ever River Restoration?  Episode 86 – April 6, 2023      Show Open:    Sequence of unidentified speakers:     More and more just start washing up. These are full grown fish that now have gone belly-up.     Bring the salmon home! Un-dam the Klamath!    We were looking at the extinction of our way of life    We came here for the pursuit of happiness, and now we’re being robbed of that. Читать дальше...

Paetongtarn Shinawatra confirmed her bid for prime minister on Wednesday, pledging to increase daily wages and give a cash handout to all Thais if elected, as Thailand’s most famous political family fights a May 14 poll seen as critical if pro-democracy parties are to regain power from a military that has dug into politics. Thailand’s modern history is strewn with coups — two of them aimed at Shinawatra prime ministers — violent street protests and elected governments that quickly crumble, in... Читать дальше...

U.S. lawmakers Wednesday dismissed a warning from China’s embassy that they should not meet with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen, who is visiting California. A bipartisan group of 17 lawmakers accompanied House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for a private meeting with Tsai at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. Hours before, U.S. news outlet Punchbowl News reported that some of the lawmakers meeting with Tsai had received emails expressing “China's deep concern and firm... Читать дальше...

As Syria's northeast slowly recovers from February’s earthquakes, farmers are grappling with the devastation in an area vital to supplying food to a rebel-held enclave in Idlib. Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul. Camera: Mouneb Taim, Moawia Atrash, Ahmad Fallaha

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen's talks this week with members of Congress will continue following Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s historic meeting with the head of the self-governing island Wednesday in California. House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, along with a bipartisan delegation of lawmakers, is scheduled to meet with Tsai on Thursday in Taiwan. “We are confronting a generational threat from the Chinese Communist Party, and the Indo-Pacific theater is our first line of defense against their encroachment. Читать дальше...

A look at the best news photos from around the world.

The push to legally restrict children’s access to social media in the United States is gaining steam. So far, however, researchers say there are both negative and positive aspects of minors using the platforms, as VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias found out.

Cyclone Freddy killed hundreds of people in February and March as it pummeled Madagascar, Malawi, and Mozambique. While the long-running storm’s victims were mostly in Malawi, floodwaters in Mozambique have created a fresh threat there from cholera. Cases have nearly doubled in one week to 19,000 amid a shortage of facilities, many of which were badly damaged by the cyclone, especially in the worst-hit province of Zambezia. The neighborhood of Icidua, on the outskirts of Quelimane city in Mozambique’s central Zambezia province... Читать дальше...

The United Nations said Wednesday that it "condemns in the strongest terms" the Taliban's decision to prohibit Afghan women from working for the world body in Afghanistan, calling the ban unlawful and unacceptable. "It constitutes an unparalleled violation of women's rights, a flagrant breach of humanitarian principles, and a breach of international rules on the privileges and immunities of the United Nations," lamented the statement issued by the U.N. office in Kabul. "The U.N. has therefore instructed all national staff ... Читать дальше...

The South African government on Wednesday terminated the national state of disaster announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa in early February. The declaration was intended to deal with the worst electricity crisis in the country's history. The government said the state of disaster had been a "necessary response" to the power crisis, but that since then, a number of measures had been put into place to deal with the constant shortages and daily scheduled blackouts, known as "loadshedding." Among... Читать дальше...

International law enforcement agencies have seized a sprawling dark web marketplace popular with cybercriminals, Britain's National Crime Agency, or NCA, said Wednesday, in a multinational crackdown dubbed 'Operation Cookie Monster.' A banner plastered across Genesis Market's site late on Tuesday said domains belonging to the organization had been seized by the FBI. Logos of other European, Canadian, and Australian police organizations were also emblazoned across the site, along with that of cybersecurity firm Qintel. Читать дальше...

Each month, California mother and daughter Keke and Ari Dixon organize a free farmers market for people who have hit tough times. Angelina Bagdasaryan visited one such event and spoke with the two women. Anna Rice narrates the story. Camera: Vazgen Varzhabetian

Cambodian communities in California organized a parade and cultural festival ahead of this month’s solar new year. For VOA, Genia Dulot has our story from Long Beach.

For many people in the U.S. holidays mean enormous lawn decorations. But generally, these decorations coincide with Western holidays. Now, some Muslim families are finding unique ways to celebrate Ramadan. VOA's Dhania Iman reports. Videographer: Andri Tambunan

A tornado struck Missouri on Wednesday morning, causing an unknown number of injuries, as severe thunderstorms packing the threat of more hail and tornadoes were forecast across parts of the Midwest and South. The storms threatened a region that includes portions of the country still reeling from deadly weekend weather. The Storm Prediction Center said up to 40 million people from Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit to Memphis, Tennessee, were at risk for storms later Wednesday, with the greatest threat from lower Michigan... Читать дальше...

Gender equality activists in Namibia have welcomed the first ever appointment of female justices to the country's supreme court.  The chairperson of the Namibia Women Lawyers Association, Ruth Herunga, said the appointment of three female judges, a first since the country gained independence, can be seen as the breaking of a glass ceiling. Herunga said although women have gained access to positions of political power, a significant number of African countries still lag in the representation of women at the highest levels of the judiciary. Читать дальше...

Cindy McCain took over Wednesday as the new head of the World Food Program. She said in a statement her priorities for the U.N. agency were increasing its resources, improving its effectiveness and scaling up partnerships and innovation. McCain begins her tenure at a time when the World Food Program estimates more than 345 million people are facing a food insecurity crisis. “We need even closer collaboration with our partners to reverse this unparalleled crisis,” McCain said. “Today we are asking new friends ... Читать дальше...

For Egypt, and four other nations in the Middle East-North Africa region, the holy month of Ramadan comes at a time when food inflation has topped 60 percent. In Cairo, photojournalist Hamada Elrasam captures a series of charity iftars, or fast-breaking dinners for lower-income worshippers, as higher food prices mean fewer servings and more hunger. Captions by Elle Kurancid.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty in New York to 34 felony charges of falsifying business records. Tuesday evening, Trump again denied the charges and attacked the New York prosecutor’s motives. The VOA New York Bureau and Veronica Balderas Iglesias contributed to this report.

U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is set to host a meeting Wednesday with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen in California. The planned talks have prompted opposition from China and threats of countermeasures. Last year, Tsai hosted then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Taiwan, and China reacted by holding its largest live-fire military drills in decades around Taiwan. China claims Taiwan as its own territory, and its consulate in Los Angeles said ahead of Wednesday’s meeting that Tsai was engaging... Читать дальше...

Former U.S. President Donald Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, felony charges that could land him in prison for up to four years on each count.     That’s according to a newly unsealed indictment issued by a New York grand jury last week.      The indictment marks the first time in U.S. history a current or former U.S. president has been criminally charged and comes as Trump seeks the Republican nomination in the 2024 U.S. Presidential election.   The... Читать дальше...

As Vietnamese durian farmers celebrate the opening of trade with China, experts are cautioning against becoming reliant on a market that can disappear if consumer tastes change or long-running friction between Beijing and Hanoi erupts again over competing claims to the South China Sea. “The Chinese market is so huge. When they are into a certain fruit, we’re actually struggling to grow enough to supply to them,” said Vo Tan Loi, director of Phuong Ngoc-Cai Be Company, a veteran fruit exporter in the Mekong Delta’s Tien Giang Province. Читать дальше...

Former U.S. President Donald Trump is now a criminal defendant. He surrendered Tuesday at a courthouse in Manhattan and pleaded not guilty to 34 felony charges of falsifying business records. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias followed the developments on this historic day.