Новости за 02.06.2023

Two passenger trains derailed in India on Friday, killing at least 50 people and trapping hundreds of others inside more than a dozen damaged coaches, officials said. About 400 people were taken to hospitals after the accident, which happened in eastern India, about 220 kilometers southwest of Kolkata, officials said. The cause was under investigation. Dattatraya Bhausaheb Shinde, the top administrator in the Balasore district, said at least 50 people were dead. Nearly 500 police officers and... Читать дальше...

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One year ago on a Friday afternoon, Bruno Pereira, an expert on Indigenous peoples, and Dom Phillips, a British journalist, motored along the Itaquai river in far western Brazil, to the settlement of Ladario. The line of wooden houses here marks a boundary — between the sprawling Javari Valley Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon and the non-Indigenous world. They were greeted by the man everyone knows as Caboclo, Laurimar Lopes Alves. Pereira’s relationship with people like him in these river communities had often been tense. Читать дальше...

The Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, the retail giant Target, the brewer of the beer Bud Light — in the past month, all these businesses have been the focus of consumer boycotts for marketing to LGBTQ+ customers. From Los Angeles, Genia Dulot has the story.

One more person was killed in Senegal on Friday, as police and protesters clashed for a second day since the sentencing of opposition politician Ousmane Sonko sparked some of the deadliest violence in recent memory.  Nine people died in clashes between police and Sonko supporters on Thursday after he was sentenced to two years in prison on charges of corrupting youth. The opposition says the verdict, which could prevent Sonko from running in elections next year, was politically motivated.  Rowdy crowds of protesters in face covers... Читать дальше...

President Joe Biden is set to sign the Fiscal Responsibility Act, legislation that suspends the U.S. government’s debt limit through January 2025 and avoids a potentially disastrous default on U.S. financial obligations. He is scheduled to deliver remarks on the legislation’s passage Friday evening. The U.S. Senate voted Thursday night 63-36 in support of the measure. Democratic senators John Fetterman, Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey, Jeff Merkley and Bernie Sanders, who is an independent but caucuses with Democrats... Читать дальше...

Armed men in Pakistan have allegedly abducted a prominent lawyer and human rights activist from near his home in the southern port city of Karachi. Family members and activists said Friday that Jibran Nasir and his wife, Mansha Pasha, were returning home late Thursday when two vehicles intercepted their car in an upscale neighborhood and took him away. Pasha filed a police complaint Friday demanding "immediate action" for Nasir's release and against those behind his abduction. She did not blame anyone... Читать дальше...

A prominent traditional leader in Cameroon's troubled Northwest region has been freed after 18 months of being held captive by separatists. Government officials say Cameroon’s military rescued Fon Kevin Shumitang in battles with separatist fighters, but the fighters insist that they set the traditional ruler free. Cameroon government officials say the central African state’s military freed Shumitang from a separatist camp in Bui, in the Northwest region on Thursday morning. Government officials... Читать дальше...

Opposition and rights groups in Zimbabwe are bemoaning this week's passing of a so-called "Patriotic Bill" by the lower house of parliament, which they say curtails several fundamental freedoms enshrined in the country's constitution. Lawyers say if President Emmerson Mnangagwa signs the Criminal Law Code Amendment Bill into law, it will not stand in court because it is flagrantly unconstitutional. Among other things, the bill would authorize penalties against people found "willfully damaging... Читать дальше...

In March, U.S. President Joe Biden announced the creation of a marine sanctuary across a wide swath of the Pacific Ocean. If finalized, it would help the U.S. meet its goal of protecting 30% of its oceans by 2030. The public comment period is underway, revealing the competing interests of conservation and economic development across the region. VOA’s Jessica Stone reports.

The number of people executed in Iran on drugs-related charges has tripled this year compared with 2022, Amnesty International said Friday, warning such hangings were happening at a "shameless" rate. Iran has hanged seven men in cases related to the protest movement that erupted last September, but campaigners have said hangings on all charges, particularly drugs-related, have surged in recent months. The rights group said at least 173 people convicted of drugs-related offenses have been hanged this year "after systematically unfair trials... Читать дальше...

Nine people were killed in clashes in Senegal on Thursday, after protests erupted following the sentencing of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko. Interior Minister Antoine Diome said on national television, "We have noted with regret violence that has led to the destruction of public and private property and, unfortunately, nine deaths in Dakar and Ziguinchor.” On Thursday, a court in Senegal acquitted Sonko on charges of rape but sentenced him to two years in prison for corrupting youth, disqualifying him... Читать дальше...

Actions by the Kosovo government that reignited tensions with Serbia this week have opened a crack in relations between Kosovo and one of its most important partners — the United States. Former U.S. diplomats said Washington hasn’t been this displeased with the Kosovo government in a long time and pointed to a statement by the top U.S. diplomat. “The United States strongly condemns the actions by the government of Kosovo to access municipal buildings in the north of Kosovo by force, actions it... Читать дальше...

“I grew up in Texas in the 1990s, and I don’t remember seeing any LGBTQUIA+ people,” Michael Terry told VOA, using an acronym for sexual minorities, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual and other people. “Not in person, not on TV or movies, and not in the books I read,” said Terry, who is gay and lives in Atlanta, Georgia. “It made me feel like something was wrong with me and caused me to have thoughts of self-harm and suicide.” June in the United States marks LGBTQ Pride Month... Читать дальше...

Canada has deployed the military to its eastern province of Nova Scotia to help fight the wildfires burning through the region, officials said Thursday. Thousands of people in Nova Scotia have been forced to flee their homes because of the blazes. Nova Scotia said Thursday that it has 16 active wildfires, with four of the fires burning out of control.

The U.S. Senate voted Thursday night 63-36 in support of a measure that will allow the United States to continue to pay its bills. The U.S. had been on track to run out of cash in four days. The bipartisan legislation now goes to President Joe Biden for his signature. "Tonight, senators from both parties voted to protect the hard-earned economic progress we have made and prevent a first –ever default by the United States,” Biden said in a statement. The House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted Wednesday night... Читать дальше...

President Joe Biden spoke to graduates of the Air Force Academy at an uncertain time for global peace. VOA spoke to an alumnus of the institution who graduated at another uncertain time — the Vietnam era — about what it was like to be in that seat more than 50 years ago. Anita Powell reports.

Summer is in the air — cigarette smoke is not — in Sweden's outdoor bars and restaurants. As the World Health Organization marks "World No Tobacco Day" on Wednesday, Sweden, which has the lowest rate of smoking in the Europe Union, is close to declaring itself "smoke-free" — defined as having fewer than 5% daily smokers in the population. Many experts give credit to decades of anti-smoking campaigns and legislation, while others point to the prevalence of "snus," a smokeless tobacco product banned... Читать дальше...

The future of a federal policy that protects from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children is in federal court. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen heard arguments Thursday in Texas v. United States, a case brought by nine Republican-led states aimed at halting the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. He is to decide on the legality of the DACA rule issued by the Department of Homeland Security in 2022 that tried to fortify the program and correct Hanen’s earlier objection to DACA. Читать дальше...

China is unlikely to take any action against North Korea even if Pyongyang tries to relaunch a spy satellite after its first attempt failed, experts said. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's powerful sister, Kim Yo Jong, said the regime would try for the second time to launch a military reconnaissance satellite "in the near future and start its mission." She said through North Korea's state-run KCNA on Thursday that if North Korea's satellite launch is "censured," satellites that the U.S. and other... Читать дальше...

An all-private astronaut team of two Americans and two Saudis, including the first Arab woman sent into orbit, splashed down safely off Florida on Tuesday night, capping an eight-day research mission aboard the International Space Station. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying them parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, after a 12-hour return flight and blazing re-entry plunge through Earth's atmosphere. The splashdown was carried live by a joint webcast presented... Читать дальше...

Following the Wednesday beating of a journalist in Iran by the bodyguards of Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of the country's first supreme leader, Iranian reporters are saying that such violent harassment is par for the course with the poor state of media freedom in Iran. The incident occurred on Wednesday at a ceremony at the headquarters of Iran's Ettela'at daily newspaper to commemorate its late director, Mahmoud Do'aei. Amin Mehravar, a reporter with the Iranian Labour News Agency, or ILNA... Читать дальше...

Justin is a service dog and accompanied his owner (who graduated with honors) to every single class for four years. The student’s university honored the dog’s hard work with his very own diploma, which he accepted, tail wagging, in front a cheering stadium of other graduates. See Justin’s walk across the stage in this story from Bill Chappell of NPR. (May 2023)

Justice Department prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of former President Donald Trump from a meeting held after he left office in which he talks about holding on to a classified Pentagon document related to a potential attack on Iran, according to media reports. CNN, which first reported on the tape, said Trump suggested on the recording that he wanted to share information from the document with others but that he knew there were limitations about his ability to declassify records after he left office. Читать дальше...

Meta on Wednesday threatened to block all news articles on Facebook and Instagram in California if state lawmakers move forward with a bill that would tax the tech company for news content. The California Journalism Preservation Act would tax the advertising profits that platforms like Meta and Google make from distributing news articles. About 70% of the money collected would then go to support newsrooms around the state. Meta has warned it will pull news links from Facebook and Instagram entirely if the bill is passed. Читать дальше...