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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. …

Ministers from 15 European countries have agreed to come up with new measures to ensure that the so-called Western Balkans route to the European Union remains shut for migrants. …

Two Republican senators say they are sponsoring legislation that would make major changes in the U.S. immigration system, slashing the number of foreign nationals admitted into the country each year by up to 50 percent. The proposal, which by some estimates would reduce immigration from 1 million to 500,000 people per year, would align the …

Russian anti-corruption campaigner and Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny has been found guilty in a politically-charged embezzlement case. A judge in the city of Kirov read out the verdict against him on February 8, in a conviction which would make him ineligible to run for president. (Reuters) …

Turkey’s military said Wednesday that Syrian rebel forces with Turkish support have taken control of strategic hills surrounding the Islamic State-held town of al-Bab. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war in Syria, said Turkish forces and allied Syrian rebels launched an operation late Tuesday and seized territory on the western …

Six Afghan employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have been killed in an attack in the northern Afghan province of Jowzjan, officials say. …

Authorities in northern Afghanistan say Islamic State terrorists have killed at least six local employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Jowzjan province government spokesman Reza Ghafoori told VOA Wednesday’s attack occurred in the Qushtipa district and the assailants also took away two ICRC workers.  He said the ICRC staff were bringing animal …

Syrian rebels backed by Turkish forces have seized control of strategically important hills around the Islamic State (IS)-controlled town of Al-Bab, Turkey’s military says. …

The next time someone throws shade at you for ghosting them so you can binge-watch a TV show or retreat to your safe space, you can let them know your behavior has been recognized by the United States’ leading dictionary publisher. Merriam-Webster on Tuesday added more than 1,000 new words and definitions, ranging from conversational …

Filmmakers in Russia say a State Duma deputy and Russian Orthodox activists are trying to prevent a romantic film about Tsar Nicholas II from being screened in Russia. …

Some people may be surprised to learn that in addition to its 50 states and Washington, DC, the United States includes more than a dozen territories located in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea. They include Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. National parks traveler Mikah Meyer, who’s on a mission to visit all …

Russia will host a regional conference on Afghanistan later this month to discuss efforts aimed at settling the protracted Afghan conflict and containing “spillover effects” of Islamic State terrorists trying to get a foothold in the war-ravaged nation. Moscow organized a tripartite meeting on the subject late December where it only invited Pakistan and China.  …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says he views U.S. President Donald Trump’s opinion about the conflict in Ukraine as “a qualitative change” compared to that of Barack Obama. …

The Kremlin appears to have no idea what to do with Aleksei Navalny. They seem afraid to imprison him; they’ve been unable to co-opt him; and no matter how much they harasses him, they just can’t seem to neutralize him. …

Peruvian prosecutors opened a formal investigation Monday into suspicions that former President Alejandro Toledo took bribes from a Brazilian construction firm at the heart of a major corruption scandal shaking politicians across Latin America.   The move came after police searched Toledo’s home in Lima on Saturday.   Authorities in Peru and throughout Latin America …

The United States granted El Salvador $98 million on Monday, as part of a plan to combat lawlessness and corruption and diminish the flow of migrants heading north. The funds, which were approved by the U.S. Congress in 2015, will be used to prioritize security and development strategies in 50 impoverished areas of the Central …

Israel’s parliament has passed a new law on settlements which is sure to be challenged in court and bring global wrath against Israel. The Knesset voted 60-52 Monday night to retroactively legalize 4,000 Jewish settlements on private Palestinian land in the West Bank — land Palestinians want for a future state. Israeli lawmakers on the …

Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL’s broadcast region and beyond for the sixth week of 2017. …

World athletics’ governing body says Russia will remain suspended from international competition and will likely be ruled out of the world championships slated for August in London. …

U.S. President Donald Trump says the United States “strongly” backs NATO but that members of the military alliance must earmark more money for defense spending. …

Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry says Russia, Turkey, and Iran have begun meeting to discuss mechanisms to monitor the cease-fire they brokered in Syria. …