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The first meeting between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump revealed vastly different ideas on immigration and border security. Those differences became especially stark during a joint briefing after talks on Monday. VOA White House Correspondent Mary Alice Salinas reports. …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in Washington Tuesday for his first visit with Donald Trump as president. Netanyahu’s frosty relationship with Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, was well documented, and Trump’s campaign statements supporting Israel gave Netanyahu reasons to expect a better relationship. But recent statements by Trump may give the prime minister some pause. …

Emergency workers are trying to seal a crumbling spillway on a California dam to prevent flooding of local communities. Close to 200,000 residents were ordered to evacuate from the area below the Lake Oroville Dam, after it was determined that the spillway that diverts the water overflow from the dam, might give way. Zlatica Hoke …

The secretary-general of the United Nations says he “deeply regrets” the United States’ decision to block a former Palestinian prime minister from leading the world body’s political mission in Libya. Antonio Guterres says that Salam Fayyad was “the right person for the right job at the right moment.” Guterres said: “I think it is a …

With tensions between the United States and Iran mounting over Tehran’s test-firing of mid-range ballistic missiles, Iran’s hardliners appear emboldened. They talk now of having a chance of winning their country’s presidential election in May – or at least turning incumbent Hassan Rouhani into a lame-duck president, if he does manage to secure reelection. Observers …

Lawyers for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will try Monday to convince a judge that he cannot get a fair trial on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy because of highly charged statements made by President Donald Trump.   The pretrial hearing before a military judge at Fort Bragg is expected to focus on …

 A top White House aide sidestepped repeated chances Sunday to publicly defend embattled national security adviser Michael Flynn following reports that he engaged in conversations with a Russian diplomat about U.S. sanctions before Trump’s inauguration. The uncertainty comes as Trump is dealing with North Korea’s apparent first missile launch of the year and his presidency, …

About 20,000 people staged a march through Mexico’s capital Sunday demanding respect for their country and its migrants in the face of perceived hostility from the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. Many marchers carried Mexican flags and dressed in white as a sign of unity and to signal the non-political nature of the march. …

Hours before the Grammy Awards ceremony, the biggest night in the music industry in the United States, word came of the death of well-known jazz and rhythm and blues singer Al Jarreau. Winner of seven Grammys himself, Jarreau died at age 76 Sunday in a hospital in Los Angeles, the city where the Grammys are …

The son of Iran’s last monarch is appealing to U.S. President Donald Trump to distinguish between the Iranian people and their Islamist rulers as the president considers whether to impose new restrictions on immigration to the United States. In an exclusive studio interview with VOA’s Persian Service, Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi said Iranians are sensitive …

The son of Iran’s last monarch is appealing to U.S. President Donald Trump to distinguish between the Iranian people and their Islamist rulers as the president considers whether to impose new restrictions on immigration to the United States. …

Venezuelans for the first time led asylum requests to the United States as the country’s middle class fled the crashing, oil-dependent economy.   Data from the U.S. government’s Citizenship and Immigration Services show that 18,155 Venezuelans submitted asylum requests last year, a 150 percent increase over 2015 and six times the level seen in 2014. …

Iraq won’t take part in any regional or international conflicts, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told state TV Saturday. The comment came after Abadi had spoke in a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump during which tensions with Iran were mentioned. The call was the first between the two leaders. A political commentator close to …

Residents say the world’s first atomic bomb test caused generations of southern New Mexico families to suffer from cancer and economic hardship, according to surveys gathered by an advocacy group seeking compensation for descendants. The surveys released Friday detailed residents’ stories from areas around the 1945 Trinity Test and argue that many Hispanic families later …

A California Islamic school wanted to keep an open mind before Donald Trump took office. But less than a month into Trump’s presidency, the school rejected $800,000 in federal funds aimed at combating violent extremism.   The decision made late Friday night by the Bayan Claremont graduate school’s board to turn down the money, an …

Lilo Schuster was in her mid-40s, single, and looking for love. After years of bad luck with dating, she, like millions of people across the globe, started using online dating sites to meet new people. A few years ago, she received what appeared to be a promising email on the dating site Match.com. The man …

In late November, Lim Morn traveled to Washington, her first trip outside Minnesota since resettling there as a Cambodian immigrant in 1986. She made the trek to plead for the release of her son, Chheng Soeun, after he was detained in August by agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Chheng was marked for …

The Google Chromebook, a type of stripped-down laptop, isn’t a practical mobile device for many people – mostly because it basically turns into an expensive paperweight whenever it can’t find a Wi-Fi connection. Yet Chromebooks have defied expectations and made major inroads in an unexpected environment – U.S. schools.   In retrospect, that shouldn’t be …

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met Thursday with the European Union’s chief diplomat, Federica Mogherini, as the two governments struggle to find solid footing despite the U.S. president’s support of Britain’s decision to leave the EU. Mogherini’s task Thursday was to test the waters for Europe’s relationship with the new Donald Trump administration, beginning …

Work resumed Thursday on the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline in the north central U.S., while an Indian tribe went to court again in a last-minute effort to stop the project. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had given the go-ahead Wednesday for the work to continue. President Donald Trump ordered the project completed after …

President Donald Trump’s unusually personal criticism of federal judges has drawn rebukes from many quarters, including from Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, but not much from the judges themselves. The leader of the federal judiciary, Chief Justice John Roberts, has himself been a target of Trump’s attacks. But Roberts has refused to comment on Trump’s …

President Donald Trump’s salvos on trade and currency are rattling Japan Inc., but many here hope Prime Minister Shinzo Abe can sell him a “win-win” package of job creation and investment when they meet this week, averting a return of the Japan-bashing of the 1980s.   Abe moved early to build a personal rapport with …

Loaded with more than 6,000 cargo containers, the ship Ever Living prepared for the final leg of its journey through the newly expanded Panama Canal when things hit a snag: The last of the massive steel lock doors failed to open all the way. The pilots controlling the ship and the captains of the tugboats …

Britain is set to begin the process of leaving the European Union at the end of March. Members of the House of Commons voted Wednesday to back the legislation, and it goes to the House of Lords. Zlatica Hoke reports the legislation received strong backing in Parliament’s lower chamber. …

Russia lost the right to host another major athletic event on February 8 due to its doping scandal. …

Macedonia angrily rejected a U.S. Republican lawmaker’s assertion that it “is not a country” and it should be divided between neighboring Bulgaria and Kosovo. …