Новости за 01.12.2023

The U.S. proposed new guidelines Friday spelling out which electric vehicles will be eligible for tax credits, ruling out those that contain batteries or minerals sourced from China and other nations that have fallen out of favor with the U.S. The restrictions dictate which clean energy vehicles will qualify for a subsidy of up to $7,500 under President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, a federal law promoting sustainable, domestic energy production. Only about 20 out of the more than 100... Читать дальше...

Israel has resumed military operations in Gaza as the weeklong truce expired Friday. Wrapping up intense diplomacy in the region, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken blamed Hamas for the end of the pause but is urging another one. White House Bureau Chief Patsy Widakuswara has this report.

Media covering Kremlin activity are facing pressure as Russia jails American journalists and lists a Spanish journalist as an enemy of the state. VOA's Cristina Caicedo Smit reports. Camera: Alfonso Beato.

A Russian court Friday ordered American Russian journalist Alsu Kurmasheva to remain in custody until February 5. The editor for the Tatar-Bashkir Service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, or RFE/RL, has already spent 45 days in prison on accusations that she failed to register as a foreign agent. Kurmasheva denies the charge. Earlier this week, Kurmasheva's husband, Pavel Butorin, spoke with VOA's Ksenia Turkova about his wife's case and why he believes Russia is detaining her. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Читать дальше...

Argentine President-elect Javier Milei’s foreign minister-designee has announced that Argentina will not be joining BRICS, an international grouping of countries increasingly seen as being led by Beijing in its bid to challenge initiatives led by Western, democratic nations. The announcement Thursday by Diana Mondino marks a reversal of a key decision made by the outgoing government that was seen as pulling Buenos Aries ever closer to China’s orbit. It also comes despite a personal letter Chinese... Читать дальше...

The U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a warning for a strong geomagnetic storm Saturday, saying power and communications systems could be affected in the Northern Hemisphere after a significant solar flare was observed on the sun.  In a statement on its website, the agency said G3, or strong geomagnetic storm conditions, were observed from 0900 to 1200 UTC Friday.   A geometric storm, the agency says, is "a stronger disturbance in the Earth's magnetic field, often varying in intensity... Читать дальше...

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For only the sixth time in its history, the U.S. House of Representatives has expelled one of its members. Enough of the majority Republicans joined most of the minority Democrats on Friday morning to oust George Santos, a first-term Republican from New York. The House Ethics Committee recently issued a report finding there was substantial evidence that Santos broke the law. Federal investigators have charged Santos with fraud, money laundering, stealing campaign donors’ identities, falsifying campaign finance reports and more. Читать дальше...

Friday is the 35th annual World AIDS Day, a time to remember the estimated 40.4 million lives lost to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, since the epidemic began in 1981. Worldwide, more than 39 million people live with HIV, upwards of 1 million Americans among them. In a statement Friday, President Joe Biden said that America is "within striking distance of eliminating HIV-transmission." Biden vowed that his focus is ensuring that by 2030, the immunodeficiency virus will no longer be a public health threat worldwide. Читать дальше...

Fighting between Israel and Hamas has resumed, we get the latest from Tel Aviv. Also in Israel, we meet the family of a recently freed hostage and we learn more about the controversial new phenomenon of citizens buying guns. We also get the latest from Kyiv and we check in on COP28 in Dubai.

Sandra Day O’Connor, who in 1981 became the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, died Friday at her home in Arizona. She was 93. In a release, the Supreme Court said O'Connor died from “complications related to advanced dementia, probably Alzheimer’s, and a respiratory illness.” In 2018, O'Connor released a letter saying she had been diagnosed with “the beginning stages of dementia,” suspecting it was Alzheimer's disease. She announced at that time she was withdrawing from public life. Читать дальше...

A reporter was briefly arrested on Thursday while covering a pro-Palestinian protest in the southwestern U.S. city of Tucson, Arizona. Video and photos posted online show Alisa Reznick, a reporter with the National Public Radio affiliate KJZZ, being handcuffed and detained by a Pima County sheriff’s deputy. Reznick was wearing a visible press pass and identified herself as a journalist. “I’m a reporter,” Reznick said. “And you’re under arrest,” a deputy replied. Reznick was among 25 other people who were arrested at the protest. Читать дальше...

Pakistan’s Supreme Court asked the government Friday to respond to questions raised over its policy of expelling Afghans residing illegally in the country, observing that Islamabad must abide by United Nations’ resolutions protecting refugees. Holding the first hearing on a plea challenging the ongoing eviction of Afghans, a three-member bench of the top court sought responses from the federal government, the apex committee headed by the prime minister and army chief that decided to expel Afghan nationals, as well as the foreign office. Читать дальше...

Top officials of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq, who are dealing with a dire financial crisis at home, are attending this week's United Nations climate change summit in the United Arab Emirates hoping to gain enough international support to fight climate change in their region, hit by "extreme droughts."    On Thursday, Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani and Prime Minister Masrour Barzani traveled to Dubai to participate in the U.N. Conference of the Parties, or COP28.     Speaking to VOA... Читать дальше...

The South China Morning Post has responded to concerns raised over the whereabouts of one of its reporters, saying the journalist is "taking personal leave." Friends of Minnie Chan raised concerns to the Japanese news outlet Kyodo News about her well being, saying the journalist has become unreachable after traveling to Beijing to report on the Xiangshan Forum. The three-day international security forum concluded on October 31. But in an email Friday to VOA, the South China Morning Post told... Читать дальше...

Afghanistan’s Taliban government announced Friday that China had formally accepted its ambassador to Beijing, hailing the move as an “important chapter” in growing ties between the two neighboring countries. The announcement, yet to be confirmed by China, would make it the first nation to host a Taliban ambassador since the Islamist group regained power from an American-backed government in Kabul two years ago. Neither China nor any other country has formally given recognition to the de facto Afghan administration. Читать дальше...

Chad's opposition and civil society groups are asking France to immediately withdraw troops who arrived in Chad after being ordered to depart neighboring Niger by that country’s military junta. Ordjei Abderahim Chaha, president of the opposition party Rally for Justice and Equality, said Thursday that military ruler Mahamat Idriss Deby has failed to heed calls to ask French troops to leave. Speaking at a news conference in the capital, N’Djamena, Chaha said he believes Deby wants French troops... Читать дальше...

Kenya has the seventh-highest number of people living with HIV on the continent, at 1.4 million, according to the National Syndemic Disease Control Council. The country has, however, made progress in slowing its spread. As Juma Majanga reports from Nairobi. Camera and edit: Jimmy Makhulo

In Mozambique, one in four women between the ages of 35 and 39 live with the HIV virus, according to a 2021 national HIV assessment report. To combat the stigma associated with HIV and AIDS, a group called the Kindlimuka Association is working to help those living with the virus. Amarilis Gule has this story from Maputo. Mayra de Lassalette narrates.

Developers at the University of Maryland are using a holographic camera to capture people’s movements in three dimensions for what could be high-impact training, education and entertainment. It is technology with the power to transform how we learn and entertain ourselves. VOA’s Julie Taboh has more. VOA footage by Adam Greenbaum.

An Israeli Argentine mother and her two young daughters are among a group of hostages recently released by Hamas. While their family rejoices their safe return, they’re anxious about the father, who remains in captivity. Pilar Cebrián spoke with the family, who shared details about their ordeal

The first gay couple in Nepal to have their same-sex marriage officially recognized vowed Friday to campaign for changes in the law to help others like them to get married. Surendra Pandey and Maya Gurung were able to legally register their marriage at a village council office this week in the mountains west of the capital, Kathmandu. Pandey is a man and Gurung is a transgender woman. Nepal does not allow its citizens to change the sex assigned at birth on their official documents. "We will... Читать дальше...

Japan's top government spokesperson expressed concern on Friday that the U.S. military is continuing to fly Osprey aircraft in the country without providing adequate information about a fatal crash this week in southwestern Japan despite repeated requests that it do so. One crew member was killed and seven others are missing, along with the aircraft. The cause of Wednesday's crash, which occurred during a training mission, is still under investigation. Search operations widened Friday with additional... Читать дальше...

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Melbourne who forced an Israeli delegation of relatives of Israelis killed or abducted by Hamas to seek shelter in a police station are facing condemnation in Australia. The demonstrators stormed the lobby of the delegation’s hotel Wednesday waving banners and placing two bloodied dolls on the ground. A group of Israelis whose relatives were kidnapped by Hamas during the militant group’s Oct. 7 attacks were followed to their hotel from a Wednesday meeting with members... Читать дальше...

Israel has made its first public comment on Iran’s apparent coercion of its Jewish minority into staging unprecedented anti-Israel rallies a month ago, telling VOA that it believes the Iranian Jews who participated in them had "no choice." "We understand perfectly [their] circumstances," said Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry Deputy Director General for Public Diplomacy Emmanuel Nahshon in a Nov. 14 VOA Persian TV interview in Jerusalem. "We understand that when you live in a dictatorship, sometimes you have no choice. Читать дальше...