Новости за 12.06.2023

Thousands of Sudanese refugees who fled to Chad to escape fighting in their country could be cut off from humanitarian and medical aid during the approaching rainy season, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Monday.  More than 100,000 people have fled across the border to Chad since conflict broke out in Sudan in April, and numbers could double over the next three months, the United Nations' refugee agency (UNHCR) warned earlier this month.  MSF's Head of Mission in Chad, Audrey van der Schoot... Читать дальше...

A Swedish appeals court on Monday said police had no legal grounds to block two gatherings where protesters had planned to burn the Quran earlier this year. A burning of Islam's holy book outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm in January sparked anger in the Muslim world, leading to weeks of protests and calls for a boycott of Swedish goods, and further stalled Sweden's NATO membership bid. Following that incident, police refused to authorize two other requests, one by a private individual and one by an organization... Читать дальше...

Across central Florida, the 49 victims killed and dozens more survivors of the massacre at a gay-friendly nightclub were remembered with the unveiling of mural, the ringing of church bells and an overnight vigil Monday, the seventh anniversary of the tragedy. Several people gathered at the site of the Pulse nightclub near downtown Orlando at 2 a.m. Monday, around the time that gunman Omar Mateen opened fire in 2016, leaving 49 people dead and 53 wounded. At the time, it was the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history... Читать дальше...

In observance of the World Day Against Child Labor, the International Labor Organization is calling for stepped up action to eliminate the use of children as workers, which is rising globally for the first time in 20 years.  The latest figures show 160 million children, nearly 1 in 10 worldwide, are engaged in child labor. Half this number are working in the most hazardous forms of child labor, such as agriculture, construction, mining, and domestic labor. The ILO says the children are forced to... Читать дальше...

Iraq urged countries on Monday to repatriate their citizens from a sprawling camp in Syria housing tens of thousands linked to the extremist Islamic State group, saying it has become a “source for terrorism.” The statements were made during a conference in Baghdad discussing al-Hol camp in northeast Syria. Iraqi officials, the U.N. representative in Iraq, some members of the international coalition fighting IS and ambassadors of several countries were present. Al-Hol Camp — named after a town near the Iraqi border ... Читать дальше...

A three-year-old startup company is leading Kenya into the world of high-tech manufacturing, building a workforce capable of making semiconductors and nanotechnology products that operate modern devices from mobile phones to refrigerators.  Anthony Githinji is the founder of Semiconductors Technologies Limited, or STL, located in Nyeri, about a three hours' drive from Nairobi.  He brought his know-how to Kenya from the United States, where he started work in 1997 on semiconductors — materials... Читать дальше...

The new Modern Art gallery at the Denver Art Museum includes two painters from Ghana. VOA’s Scott Stearns gives us a look.

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The Biden administration on Monday added 43 entities to an export control list, including Frontier Services Group Ltd, a security and aviation company previously run by Erik Prince, for training Chinese military pilots and other activities that threaten U.S. national security.   The Test Flying Academy of South Africa, a flight school under scrutiny by authorities in Britain for recruiting British ex-military pilots to train Chinese military fliers, was also added to the U.S. Commerce Department's Entity List. Читать дальше...

Recent clashes in Northern Kosovo between Kosovars and ethnic Serbs are raising concerns about a possible new conflict in the region. From Brussels, Valentina Vasileva has the story, narrated by Anna Rice. VOA footage by David Gogokhia.

Singapore was the first country in the world to greenlight the sale of lab-grown meat, but even after nearly 2½ years, the fledgling industry is still struggling with supply issues and hurdles such as public acceptance, experts say. Lab-grown or cultivated meat is meat grown in a lab by extracting cells from animals and growing the muscles to eventually have the texture, nutrition and taste of meat from real-life animals. The product has long been touted as a potential solution to multiple issues... Читать дальше...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday that he will appoint a scientific advisory body in the coming days that will include outside experts on artificial intelligence, and said he is open to the idea of creating a new U.N. agency that would focus on AI. “I would be favorable to the idea that we could have an artificial intelligence agency, I would say, inspired by what the International Atomic Energy Agency is today,” Guterres said of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency. He said he... Читать дальше...

Grammy Award winning Roc Nation artist Victory drops her highly anticipated sophomore album, “Glory Hour” last month. The new album showcases the singer/songwriter’s distinct vocals, and offers a deeply felt and earnest collection of songs that seek to uplift the soul in dark times.  From the start of her career, she has always been about finding fresh ways to express her truth, and though musically grounded in her unique R&B fusion style, “Glory Hour” is a bold and inspirational 18-track collection... Читать дальше...

In Nigeria, poverty is the main reason children do not go to school, but there are increasing efforts to close the gap. Gibson Emeka reports on one unique economic approach designed to get kids into school.

JPMorgan Chase announced a tentative $290 million settlement Monday with the victims of Jeffrey Epstein who had accused the bank of being the financial conduit that allowed the financier to continue operating a sex trafficking operation. Epstein was arrested in 2019 on federal charges accusing him of paying underage girls for massages and then molesting them at his homes in Florida and New York. He was found dead in jail in August of that year, at age 66. A medical examiner ruled his death a suicide. Читать дальше...

Canada's worst-ever spring wildfire season has forced its forestry industry to shutter sawmills, driving up lumber prices and setting production back for months just as housing construction has slowed due to higher costs and a tight labor market.  Canada has the world's third-largest forest area and is the second-largest softwood lumber producer, according to Canadian government estimates, making it a key supplier of a critical housing material.  This year's unprecedented fires have already consumed at least 4 million hectares... Читать дальше...

Drivers began longer commutes Monday after an elevated section of Interstate 95 collapsed in Philadelphia a day earlier following damage caused by a tanker truck carrying flammable cargo catching fire. Sunday's fire closed a heavily traveled segment of the East Coast's main north-south highway indefinitely. Newscasts warned of traffic nightmares and gave advice on detours, urging drivers to take more time to travel. "This is really going to have a ripple effect throughout the region," AAA spokesperson Jana Tidwell said Monday. Читать дальше...

Imagine if your first-year biology class took place at an “Alien Zoo,” where you dissect animals and identify medical conditions. This is already happening at Arizona State University, where thousands of students pair their real-life lecture courses with virtual labs. Students in the virtual reality course were 1.7 times more likely to earn an A than those in the regular one, reports Olivia Sanchez of The Hechinger Report. (June 2023)

Mourners gathered to bury the dead and bodies lay in a Khartoum hospital Sunday as deadly shelling and gunfire resumed after the end of a 24-hour ceasefire in Sudan. Fighting has raged in the northeast African country since mid-April, when army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, turned on each other. The latest in a series of ceasefire agreements enabled civilians trapped in the capital Khartoum to venture... Читать дальше...

Zimbabwe's central bank’s efforts to arrest the sharp depreciation of the country's dollar seem to be failing as the currency took a nosedive and was trading Monday at more than 6000 against the U.S. dollar from about 2600 on the black-market - forcing prices up. Columbus Mavhunga reports from Harare where economists disagree on what the government should do.

China called on Monday on India to meet it halfway in a dispute over journalists working in each other's countries after China said its reporters in India had been treated unfairly and an Indian journalist was asked to leave China.  The dispute over media staff is the latest episode to highlight tension between the Asian neighbors since a deterioration in ties in mid-2020 when their troops clashed on their disputed Himalayan frontier and 24 people were killed.  "In recent years, Chinese journalists... Читать дальше...

Nigeria's new president has officially ended the country’s fuel subsidy to its citizens.   Bola Tinubu said Monday the cut was needed for Nigeria’s economic stability.   "Painfully, I have asked you, my compatriots, to sacrifice a little more for the survival of our country,” the president said in a national broadcast.  The president first said the subsidy would be eliminated during his inaugural speech late last month.  The subsidy has cost Nigeria billions of dollars. Some financial analysts said the cut was long overdue. Читать дальше...

The U.N. cultural and scientific agency UNESCO said Monday the United States plans to rejoin the organization in July, nearly five years after leaving. UNESCO said in a statement the move included a “concrete financing plan” that must be approved by member states. Before its withdrawal, the United States was a leading financial supporter of UNESCO, providing about 22% of its budget. But it stopped financial contributions in 2011 after Palestinian membership was approved and withdrew altogether... Читать дальше...

The controversial and colorful former prime minister of Italy - Silvio Berlusconi – has died.  The perpetually tanned billionaire media magnate was 86 and was being treated for leukemia. Berlusconi began building his fortune as a real estate developer and then moved on to create a highly successful television network.  At one point, he was known as Italy’s richest man.  And then he moved into politics, an arena which scholars say he Americanized.  The right-wing politician served as prime minister in four governments beginning in 1994. Читать дальше...

A third of the young men in Germany find violence against women acceptable, according to a new survey. One thousand men and 1,000 women answered questions for the survey commissioned by the children’s charity Plan International Germany. The survey revealed that 33% of men, between the ages of 18 – 35, thought it was “acceptable” if “their hand slipped” during an argument with their female partner, while 34% of the men admitted to being violent against women at some point in their lives. The... Читать дальше...