Stockholm attack: Truck driver suspect ‘known to security services’
Police in Stockholm say a man in custody is thought to have been the driver of a lorry that ploughed into pedestrians on Friday, leaving four people dead. A 39-year-old from Uzbekistan was detained on Friday evening in a northern suburb of the Swedish capital on suspicion of terror crime through the act of murder. […]
India announces 4.5-billion-dollar credit line for Bangladesh
India and Bangladesh signed 22 bilateral agreements aimed at boosting economic and political ties on Saturday, among them a 4.5 billion-dollar credit line to Dhaka for infrastructure projects. Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina in New Delhi over a wide range of subjects including defence, energy,…
Syrian Americans divided over Trump after US missile strikes
Syrians living in the United States have reacted in different ways to the American missile strikes on a military airbase in their home country. Members of the Christian Syrian community in Allentown, Pennsylvania, demonstrated in support of President Assad on Friday afternoon, condemning the attack ordered by Donald Trump. They carried Syrian flags and pictures […]
Privacy Experts Say CIA Compromised Cyber Security
WikiLeaks release of the latest cache of confidential C.I.A. documents as part of an ongoing “Vault 7” operation exposed some of the U.S. government’s hacking and digital espionage capabilities—this time having to do with iPhones and other smart devices used by hundreds of millions of people across…
US Looks at Russia’s Role in Syria’s Nerve-Gas Attack
The United States appears to be raising the stakes in Syria, suggesting Russia may have helped the Assad regime carry out a deadly chemical weapons attack that killed more than 80 people in Idlib province. A day after firing 59 Tomahawk missiles at Syria’s Shayrat Airfield, the launching point for the chemical weapons strike, senior […]
US strike on Syria unlikely to mark policy shift
The last three weeks have witnessed contradictory moves by the United States vis-a-vis the Syrian conflict. In late March, US forces attacked civilian areas around Raqqa, including a school and a mosque, killing dozens of civilians. The following week, Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, flippantly suggested that the US was not […]
To interest low-caste Indians in Christianity, evangelicals add Hindu traditions
It’s Sunday morning in the Indian city of Banaras. In a humble concrete and sheet-metal church, worshippers gather for the weekly service. But this is no regular church. There is no spire. There are no ringing bells. The regular vocabulary of praise for Christ is tailored to this Hindu-Indian congregation. Jesus is depicted not on […]
Ethiopia Declares Another Diarrhea Outbreak
Ethiopia has declared an outbreak of acute watery diarrhea, also known as AWD, in the country’s Somali region, where people are already struggling to cope with a persistent drought. Dr. Akpaka Kalu, the World Health Organization representative to Ethiopia, told VOA on Friday that 16,000 cases of AWD had been recorded in the region since […]
Russian Ship Heads toward U.S. Navy after Syria Strike
Russia deployed its most advanced Black Sea frigate Friday into the eastern Mediterranean, where U.S. Navy destroyers had launched an airstrike earlier that day against the Moscow-backed Syrian military. As Russian leadership condemned the U.S.’ first intentional attack on the military of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since the country’s six-year conflict began, Russia’s Admiral Grigorovich […]
Bernie Sanders Blasts Trump’s Airstrike In Syria
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a statement Friday following President Donald Trump’s missile strike in Syria Thursday night. Sanders expressed his concern over the airstrikes, calling them “disastrous” and urging peace and stability. “If there’s anything we should’ve learned from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in which the lives of thousands of brave American […]