Новости за 06.10.2023

The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled in favor of protecting slain Las Vegas reporter Jeff German's personal devices from an unchecked police inquiry, instead calling for an independent team to look through his devices as part of the murder investigation. It's a press freedom win for newsroom members who are still grappling one year later with the killing of their colleague. "There's just relief and happiness among our staff. This case was so important for us because it had ramifications far beyond our own organization," Glenn Cook... Читать дальше...

Kenya's president, William Ruto, has made his first cabinet reshuffle, a change affecting eight ministries, including foreign affairs. The change in cabinet ministers takes place just over a year since Ruto took power, with the country having a lot of hope in his government. But the nation has struggled to deal with the high cost of living and unemployment after promising to improve people's lives and provide better opportunities. Political commentator Martin Andati said the government is making... Читать дальше...

At a rally Friday in the southern city of Blantyre, unemployed nurses called for more jobs and gave Malawi's president 14 days to help them find new opportunities for work. Frank Kamwendo, the chairperson of concerned nurses, said the demonstrations were a last resort after several meetings with Malawi government officials. "We have been trying our level best to discuss with the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of local government to recruit more than 2,260 nursing officers," said Kamwendo. Читать дальше...

A former U.S. Army sergeant was arrested on Friday for allegedly seeking to provide classified information to China, the Justice Department said. Joseph Daniel Schmidt, 29, who served in an Army intelligence unit from 2015 until 2020, is charged with retaining national defense information and attempting to deliver it to China. The Justice Department said Schmidt, after leaving the military, offered national defense information to the Chinese consulate in Turkey and the Chinese security services. Читать дальше...

Amazon launched the first test satellites for its planned internet service Friday as a rival to SpaceX’s broadband network. United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket blasted off with the pair of test satellites, kicking off a program that aims to improve global internet coverage with an eventual 3,236 satellites around Earth. Amazon plans to begin offering internet service by the end of next year. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has a huge head start over Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos, who has his own rocket company, Blue Origin. Читать дальше...

Editor's note: Here is a look at immigration-related news around the U.S. this week. Questions? Tips? Comments? Email the VOA immigration team: ImmigrationUnit@voanews.com.  US Government to Resume Deportations to Venezuela The Biden administration announced Thursday it will resume the deportation of migrants back to Venezuela in hopes of decreasing the numbers of Venezuelans arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. On a background call with reporters — a method often used by U.S. authorities to... Читать дальше...

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The Central African Republic (CAR) and Chad have the military presence along their shared border due to allegations both nations are attempting to disrupt the other by using rebel factions. Tensions between CAR and Chad have been strained since April, when each accused the other of being involved in violence on the border. This week, the Central African Republic (CAR) army and Wagner Group mercenaries carried out a military exercise in Ouham-Fafa Prefecture near the border with Chad. In response... Читать дальше...

Pakistan's recent crackdown against Afghan refugees living illegally in the country has sparked fear among those residing legally in the southern city of Karachi. VOA’s Sidra Dar introduces us to one Afghan and his troubles with the Pakistani police in this story narrated by Bezhan Hamdard. Camera: Khalil Ahmed. Contributor: Nazrana Ghaffar Yousufzai

Gabon’s coup leader, seeking an end to international sanctions, says he visited the Central African Republic on Thursday to explain to its president why he seized power from Gabon’s president on August 30. Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, the coup leader, said he told CAR President Faustin-Archange Touadera that the military takeover was vital to free Gabon from a long, iron-fisted rule that failed to improve the living conditions of its civilians. Nguema also said that the coup was intended to avoid bloodshed because... Читать дальше...

The Supreme Court in the East African island nation of Mauritius has struck down a colonial-era law outlawing same-sex relations, a rare move at time when nations on the continent have passed strict anti-gay or LGBTQ laws. The court ruled in two cases that were brought by individuals with the support of LGBTQ rights groups, who challenged the law that was established in 1898 under British colonial rule that made “sodomy” or consensual sex between two men a jailable offense.  In both cases, the... Читать дальше...

That’s according to Inside Higher Ed’s annual survey, which finds that most officials think that the end of affirmative action will reduce racial diversity on campus. Read the rest of the findings in this report from Liam Knox. (September 2023)

West Virginia University, the flagship public institution in one of America’s poorest states, has announced a plan to get rid of all foreign languages and creative writing, and fire about 7% of its academic staff. The move is unprecedented among large American schools, and faculty and students are not happy. Nick Anderson of The Washington Post takes a deeper look at the controversy. (August 2023)

A study published Friday indicates 1 in 10 babies around the world are born prematurely — before 37 weeks — leading to deaths, disability and chronic illnesses. The study was conducted by the World Health Organization, the U.N. Children’s Fund, UNICEF and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The study monitored global births between 2010 and 2020 and documented global, regional and country estimates and trends. It found 13.4 million babies — 1 in 10 of all live births — were born prematurely in 2020... Читать дальше...

It’s been more than 20 years since “Spy Kids” made its way to movie theaters around the world. Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez has rebooted the franchise to attract a new generation. VOA’s Veronica Villafañe spoke with the director and has more in this report.

According to a 2022 Rice University study, between 1972 and 2017, at least 521 U.S. small towns and cities with populations between 1,000 and 200-thousand residents have disbanded their police departments, and the impact has been surprising. Liliya Anisimova has the story, narrated by Anna Rice. Camera: Andrey Degtyarev

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Narges Mohammadi, a women’s and human rights activist who is imprisoned in Iran.  Mohammadi has been arrested by Iran’s government 13 times, convicted five times, and sentenced to 31 years’ imprisonment and 154 lashes.  The Nobel Committee said that Mohammadi’s life embodies the “Woman – Life – Freedom” motto of the protests in Iran that erupted last year after a young woman, Mahsa Amini, died in custody after being arrested by the morality police for wearing her headscarf incorrectly. Читать дальше...

Storms, floods, fires and other extreme weather events led to more than 43 million displacements involving children between 2016 and 2021, according to a United Nations report. More than 113 million displacements of children will occur in the next three decades, estimated the UNICEF report released Friday, which took into account risks from flooding rivers, cyclonic winds and floods that follow a storm. Some children, like 10-year-old Shukri Mohamed Ibrahim, are already on the move. Her family... Читать дальше...

The Philippines has placed all its commercial airports on heightened alert after an anonymous warning that bombs could go off on planes headed out of Manila, including to several tourist hotspots, its civil aviation authority said Friday. "Immediate enhanced security measures" were being implemented at 42 commercial airports across the country, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) said in a media advisory, adding the warnings were being verified. The warning had been sent by... Читать дальше...

A flood that burst through a major hydroelectric dam in India's Himalayan northeast killed at least 31 people, officials said Friday, as ice-cold water swept through mountain towns, washing away houses and bridges and forcing thousands of people to leave their homes. The flood began shortly after midnight Wednesday, when a glacial lake high in the mountains overflowed after a heavy rainfall. The waters cracked open a 6-year-old dam that was the largest in the Indian state of Sikkim, and then cascaded through towns in the Lachan Valley below. Читать дальше...

US and Mexican officials held talks about immigration, illicit drug trafficking and other shared challenges Thursday in Mexico City. But it was the confusion surrounding a possible expansion of the border wall that forced the US secretary of homeland security to take a pause from the agenda and clarify the administration’s stance. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias has the story.

Officials in Syria say at least 80 people were killed Thursday when a drone strike hit a graduation ceremony for army officers in the city of Homs. The Associated Press, citing Syria’s health minister, reports at least 240 people were wounded in the attack.  It is unclear who is responsible for the carnage. The army confirmed that drones strapped with explosives targeted the graduation ceremony as it drew to a close. Army officials did not provide an official tally of the casualties, except to... Читать дальше...

For years, Chinese officials have referred to the Tiananmen massacre as "political turmoil" and have attempted to make the violence of June 4, 1989, disappear. Estimates of the death toll range from several hundred people to more than 10,000, though there has never been an official tally released. Thousands more were injured by troops who charged the student-led pro-democracy demonstration that began massing in Beijing’s vast open space in mid-April. Against that backdrop, Tiananmen: A New Musical... Читать дальше...

Lawyers for Donald Trump asked a judge Thursday to dismiss the Washington federal election subversion case against him, arguing the Republican is immune from prosecution for actions they say were taken in his official role as president.  The motion amounts to the most pointed attack yet by defense attorneys on the federal case charging Trump with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden. It tees up a fight over the scope of presidential power... Читать дальше...

The U.S. government has agreed to help restore a sacred Native American site on the slopes of Oregon's Mount Hood that was destroyed by highway construction, court documents show, capping more than 15 years of legal battles that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. In a settlement filed with the high court Thursday, the U.S. Department of Transportation and other federal agencies agreed to replant trees and aid in efforts to rebuild an altar at a site along U.S. Highway 26 that tribes said... Читать дальше...