Australia’s bushfire-stricken state of Queensland saw heavy rainfalls on Sunday that dampened some of the fires that have razed 2.5 million hectares (1.2 million acres) since September, but the wet weather caused major flooding. 
Some areas received a quarter of the annual average rainfall, according to Reuters’ calculations, with the state’s Bureau of Meteorology saying coastal areas [...]

Several countries backing rival factions in Libya have violated an arms embargo that they had agreed to uphold a week ago at a summit in Berlin, the United Nations said Saturday. 
Last Sunday, foreign powers backing opposing camps fighting over Libya’s capital, Tripoli, agreed at a summit hosted by Germany and the United Nations to push the parties to a lasting [...]

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Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido joined thousands of supporters at a demonstration in Madrid on Saturday after arriving in Spain on the last leg of a European tour. 
Speaking in a central square packed with supporters holding signs calling for “democracy,” Guaido emphasized the importance of international support in unseating Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. 
“We need the [...]

The U.S. Border Patrol, reacting to a breach it discovered in a steel-pole border wall believed to be used by smugglers, gave activists no warning this month when it bulldozed the U.S. side of a cross-border garden on an iconic bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. 
On Saturday, after a public apology for “the unintentional destruction,” the [...]

Hundreds of former prisoners will return Monday to the Nazi concentration and extermination camp at Auschwitz, Poland, alongside several world leaders, to mark the 75th anniversary of its liberation by Soviet troops.  
At least 1.1 million people – mostly Jews – were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the Nazi death camps, between 1940 and 1945. 
Stanislaw [...]

President Donald Trump inquired how long Ukraine would be able to resist Russian aggression without U.S. assistance during a 2018 meeting with donors that included the indicted associates of his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. 
“How long would they last in a fight with Russia?” Trump is heard asking in the audio portion of a video recording, [...]

The first week of the U.S. Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump ended Saturday as the president’s attorney began their defense, arguing he had done nothing wrong in his dealings with Ukraine. Trump’s team has up to three days to argue before the 100 senators weighing whether Trump’s actions merit his removal from office. VOA’s congressional [...]

A U.S. veterans group is “expecting” an apology from President Donald Trump for his comments that downplayed traumatic brain injuries, an official said. 
Speaking in Davos on Wednesday, Trump said he did not consider the brain injuries suffered by U.S. service members in Iran’s recent attack on a base in Iraq as serious. 
But the Veterans of Foreign Wars “expects [...]

Dr. Raphael G. Bouchnik-Chen The killing by the US of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani will not temper Tehran’s intention
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