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VOA NEWS September 21, 2018
I'm David Byrd in Washington.
The woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her three
decades ago wants to testify next week before a Senate panel.
As AP's Sagar Meghani reports, lawyers said that Christine Blasey Ford would be prepared
to testify as long as terms were fair and she was ensured of safety.
In an email sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Christine Blasey Ford's lawyer says her client
wants to testify next week if a deal can be reached on terms that are "fair" and "ensure
her safety."
It's a sharp switch from statements this week in which Ford and her lawyers insisted she
would only testify after the FBI investigated her allegations, which put the hearing in
doubt.
The lawyer says Ford still strongly prefers an investigation but stopped short of demanding
it.
There is at least one obstacle to overcome - the hearing scheduled for Monday, which
the lawyer says is not possible.
Sagar Meghani, at the White House.
Hurricane Florence continued to punish North and South Carolina Thursday one week after
it churned over parts of the U.S. eastern seaboard with historically heavy rains and
sweeping winds.
About 10,000 frustrated and exhausted people remain in shelters as forecasters predict
flooding from swollen rivers will worsen in the two states over the next several days.
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper says that recovery will be long and expensive.
"This is going to be a multi-billion dollar effort.
We have roads and bridges to repair."
The National Weather Service said that some major waterways in the Carolinas and Virginia
are far above flood stage and are expected to rise for days before they crest.
For more on these stories, visit our website voanews.com.
This is VOA news.
The World Anti-Doping Agency announced Thursday it would lift its ban on Russia's anti-doping
authority, RUSADA.
WADA President [Greg] Craig Reedie said in a tweet "the great majority of WADA's ExCo,
executive committee, decided to reinstate RUSADA as compliant with the Code subject
to strict conditions."
The decision to lift the ban drew ire from many, including U.S. anti-doping agency CEO
Travis Tygart.
"It's a catastrophic blow both to clean athletes and those who value fair play around the world,
but more importantly to the World Anti-Doping Agency and its credibility."
RUSADA was banned in 2015 after a WADA report found evidence of a large and sophisticated
government-backed scheme to help athletes cheat on drug tests.
Moscow has repeatedly claimed it had no involvement in that scheme.
The United States imposed sanctions Thursday on a Chinese military agency for buying Russian
weaponry in violation of U.S. sanctions against Russia.
The State Department said it would immediately penalize a unit of the Chinese military that
oversees the country's defense technology for executing transactions with Rosoboronexport,
Russia's main arms exporter.
China bought Russian Sukhoi Su-25 fighter jets and S-400 surface-to-air missiles.
The purchases violate a 2017 U.S. sanctions law that is designed to punish Russia for
interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
A senior United Nations official says he believes a Russian-Turkish agreement to create a demilitarized
buffer zone between the Syrian army and rebels in northern Idlib province has averted a war
for now.
Lisa Schlein reports from Geneva.
Jan Egeland, a senior adviser of the U.N. special envoy for Syria, says the Russian-Turkish
agreement bought more time for diplomats and politicians to do their job to protect civilians
inside the buffer zone and avert a catastrophic humanitarian disaster.
"There will be in the future, air raids against the listed organizations.
There will also be fighting between armed groups, armed actors and the so-called terrorists,
the so-called radicals."
Under the deal, Egeland says only al-Nusra and other U.N.-listed terrorist groups can
be attacked.
He says these groups, which number about 10,000, will be moved outside the buffer zone.
Lisa Schlein, for VOA news, Geneva.
At least 44 people have drowned after a passenger ferry capsized on Lake Victoria in Tanzania
Thursday afternoon.
Regional commissioner John Mongella said 37 people had been rescued but that some were
in "a very bad condition."
For more, visit our website.
I'm David Byrd, VOA news.
VOA NEWS September 22, 2018
This is VOA news.
I'm David Byrd in Washington.
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has denied allegations by The New York Times
that he suggested that President Donald Trump be secretly recorded or that he discussed
invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office.
Rosenstein, the U.S. official who heads up the investigation into Russian interference
in the 2016 election, said in a statement Friday that "The New York Times' story is
inaccurate and factually incorrect."
He said he would not further comment on the story based on anonymous sources who are biased
against the department and are advancing their own personal agenda.
Rosenstein added that he wanted to be clear based on his "personal dealings with the president,
there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment."
A source who was in the room during a meeting when Rosenstein made the remark about recording
the president told VOA that the remark was "sarcastic."
He said it was "never discussed with any intention of recording a conversation with the president."
President Trump has abruptly shifted course on the woman who says Supreme Court nominee
Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers.
As AP correspondent Sagar Meghani reports, the president's tweets have drawn the ire
of a key Republican.
The president had stayed away from directly challenging Christine Blasey Ford's allegation
and had not even used her name.
Today, he tweets if the attack was as bad as Dr. Ford says, then she would have filed
charges decades ago.
Ford has said she did not report the alleged attack which happened when she was 15.
GOP Senator Susan Collins, a key vote if and when Kavanaugh comes up for confirmation,
says she is appalled by the president's tweet, pointing out sexual assault is one of the
most underreported crimes.
But Collins stopped short of saying she believes Ford's allegation.
Sagar Meghani.
This is VOA news.
One week after Hurricane Florence hit the southeastern U.S. state of North Carolina
with floods and destructive winds, some parts of that state remain underwater.
Meanwhile, as AP's Rita Foley reports, residents of South Carolina are bracing for more flooding
as swollen rivers flow downstream.
The wreckage of an over-turned ferry that sank in Tanzania's part of Lake Victoria Thursday,
killing dozens of people.
But government officials fear the final death toll could reach as high as 200.
Initial estimates show there were more than 300 people on board.
The local district commissioner took part in the immediate rescue efforts.
"We are here to do a rescue so that if there are any alive, with god's help we rescue them.
As for those who have died, we'll get them out, too.
For now, we are concentrating on the rescue operation, though.
As you can see, specialists have arrived."
The ferry sank just meters from the dock on Lake Victoria's biggest island.
That is a report by Reuters Anna Bevan about Tanzania's government declaring four days
of mourning after more than 130 people were killed in a ferry accident on Lake Victoria.
Now let's hear from AP's Rita Foley about how residents of South Carolina are bracing
for more flooding due to the effects of Hurricane Florence.
Hurricane Florence is blamed for more than 40 deaths in the Carolinas and Virginia, among
the most recent victims, an 81-year-old man whose body was found in a flooded pickup truck
in South Carolina.
Governor Henry McMaster: "We've never had this much rain, this much water in the state.
We had the rain ??? on in South Carolina but also that fell in parts of North Carolina
is coming down into a river system."
More residents have been ordered to evacuate.
North Carolina officials say parts of the main north-south route on the East Coast,
I-95, remain flooded and may be closed until the end of the month.
I'm Rita Foley.
Former President Barack Obama urged voters in Pennsylvania to get out and vote in November,
telling a crowd in Philadelphia they cannot afford to stay on the sidelines.
At a rally for two leading Democrats running for reelection, Governor tom Wolf and U.S.
Senator Bob Casey, the former president said the only way to control the abuse of power
is to vote.
"There's only one real check on bad policy, and there's only one real check on the abuse
of power and that is you, the American people standing up and deciding to cast your ballot."
Obama's trip is the latest in a string of appearances the former president is making
before the midterm elections on November 6.
For more on these stories, visit our website voanews.com.
I'm David Byrd, VOA news.
VOA NEWS September 23, 2018
This is VOA news.
I'm David Byrd in Washington.
The woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault has agreed
to testify next week before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
As AP's Ben Thomas reports, attorneys for Professor Christine Blasey Ford are hopeful
details of her testimony can be worked out quickly.
Attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford say she has accepted the Senate Judiciary Committee's
request for her to tell her story.
In a letter to the committee's Republican majority, the attorneys say Ford is willing
to appear in the coming week to, in their words, "provide her first-hand knowledge of
Brett Kavanaugh's sexual misconduct."
But the attorneys are also requesting a meeting later today to continue discussing the exact
terms of Ford's appearance.
They say they are hopeful that details can be worked out.
Ben Thomas, Washington.
Iranian state media reported at least 25 people were killed and more than 60 wounded in an
attack on a military parade in the Arab Ahvaz region of the country.
Edward Yeranian reports.
Heavily armed gunmen rained automatic weapons fire for over 10 minutes on participants in
a military parade in Iran's Arab Ahvaz region Saturday.
Most of the victims reportedly belonged to Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard.
Iranian TV showed ambulances ferrying victims to nearby hospitals while survivors could
be seen helping the injured.
There were conflicting reports over who staged the attack, but both the Islamic State group
and a group calling itself the "Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz" claimed
responsibility.
Iranian media reportedly has accused both Israel and Saudi Arabia of responsibility
for the attack but gave no direct evidence to support the claims.
Edward Yeranian, for VOA news, Cairo.
For more on these stories, visit our website voanews.com.
This is VOA news.
The death toll rose to 207 and one survivor was reportedly rescued Saturday from the ferry
boat that capsized in Tanzania's Lake Victoria Thursday.
Tanzanian officials continued their search inside the overturned vessel for a third day
as an investigation into the mishap got underway.
Search teams spent the day pulling bodies from the MV Nyerere, which sank amid speculation
that it was overcrowded.
Four days of mourning began for victims.
One man was pulled alive from the wreckage.
News reports say the vessel's engineer was rescued near its engine.
China's Foreign Ministry summoned the U.S. ambassador to China, Terry Branstad, Saturday
to issue a harsh protest against U.S. sanctions imposed after Beijing bought Russian fighter
jets and missiles.
The move came hours after China canceled trade talks with the U.S. following Washington's
imposition of new tariffs on Chinese goods.
A statement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry's website says the U.S. sanctions are "a serious
violation of the basic principles of international law" and a "hegemonic act."
The U.S. imposed the sanctions Thursday after China bought Sukhoi fighter jets and surface-to-air
missiles from Russia.
The purchases violate a 2017 U.S. sanctions law designed to punish Russia for interfering
in the 2016 presidential election.
Officials in North and South Carolina are warning residents that the danger of flooding
is not over, more than a week after Hurricane Florence pummeled the area with wind and heavy
rainfall.
At least 43 people died in the Carolinas and neighboring Virginia.
South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster warned that "although the winds and rain are gone,
[the rain is] the water is, rather, still there and the worst is still to come."
Florence dumped up to 91 centimeters of rain on North Carolina, where many areas remain
cut off by flooding.
Governor Roy Cooper is asking residents not to try to return home yet.
"Some people are able to return home as the flood waters fall and the evacuation orders
lift.
But others can't return home yet either because there is not a safe way to get there or there
is no home to go back to at all."
Access to the North Carolina port city of Wilmington, which was completely cut off by
high water, has improved, but officials said they didn't know when evacuees will be able
to return home.
And Pope Francis was in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, Saturday on the first stop of a four-day
trip to mark the 100th anniversary of the independence of the Baltic nation.
The trip will feature meetings with Baltic leaders as well as with Catholic Lutheran
and Orthodox faithful.
I'm David Byrd.
VOA NEWS September 24, 2018
VOA news.
I'm Christopher Cruise reporting.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday the U.S. will win any trade war with China.
He spoke to Fox News the day before the administration's latest tariffs on Chinese imports go into
effect.
He said the U.S. wants to "force China to behave in a way that if you want to be a global
power, you do not steal intellectual property."
The Trump administration has been demanding that China better protect American intellectual
property, including ending the practice of cyber theft.
Although two organizations have claimed responsibility for an attack on a military parade in Iran
Saturday, on Sunday President Hassan Rouhani continued to blame the United States.
The Islamic State and a group calling itself the "Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation
of Ahvaz" have both said they were behind the attack on the parade.
Twenty-five people were shot and killed.
Also Sunday, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley told ABC News that Rouhani should consider
talking to President Trump.
Police and supporters of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega fought in Managua Sunday, with
demonstrators calling for the release of people imprisoned during recent protests.
At least one person was killed in the fighting.
Hundreds of protesters carrying Nicaragua's blue and white flag gathered in the eastern
part of the capital in the morning after squads of police prevented the demonstrators from
reaching the city center.
The Afghan Taliban has warned the United States against meeting what it called "fake" and
"fraudulent" Taliban delegations.
It said such contacts could "seriously harm any possible genuine process of dialogue."
This is VOA news.
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and lawyers for the woman who has accused Supreme Court
nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault have reached a tentative agreement that the
woman will testify before the committee on Thursday.
The two sides reached the deal over the telephone Saturday and were expected to further negotiate
on Sunday the terms of the woman's appearance before the committee.
The lawyers say their client has gotten death threats and has met with FBI agents to discuss
their safety.
Israel has put the residents of a West Bank village on notice that they must demolish
their homes in a week.
A statement from the Israeli Defense Ministry on Sunday said "... residents of Khan al-Ahmar
received a notice today requiring them to demolish all the structures on the site by
October 1st."
It was not immediately clear what would happen if the Palestinians do not dismantle their
homes.
Israel says the village was built without proper permits, but it is almost impossible
for Palestinians to obtain proper building permits.
Many people in Tanzania were mourning Sunday as the first 12 bodies were buried from a
ferry accident that left at least 224 people dead.
The accident happened on Thursday.
The overcrowded ferry was traveling to a popular open-air market when it capsized about 50
meters before reaching the shore.
It made a sharp turn and then immediately tipped.
Although the maximum capacity for the ferry was 100 people, it's estimated as many as
300 people could have been on broad.
Maoist insurgents fatally shot a lawmaker visiting a tribal area in southern India on
Sunday after the insurgents put up posters warning politicians not to travel there.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday announced the world's biggest health insurance
plan.
He promised free health care for half a billion of the country's poorest citizens.
Modi says the plan will benefit [more than half ] more than the population of the United
States, Canada and Mexico combined.
He said it would provide health care to the bottom 40 percent of India's 1.25billion people.
It would give the country's 100 million lowest-income families about $7,000 in annual health insurance
to treat serious ailments.
India spends about one percent of its annual GDP on public health.
That's among the lowest in the world.
Many of the poorest just go without care.
The plan is expected to cost the central and 29 state governments $1.6 billion a year.
You can find more on these and other late breaking and developing stories, from around
the world, around the clock, at voanews.com and on the VOA news mobile app.
I'm Christopher Cruise, VOA news.
VOA NEWS September 25, 2018
I'm Jim Bertel, VOA new.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will meet with President Donald Trump on Thursday.
The White House announcement comes days after The New York Times reported that Rosenstein
last year suggested secretly recording President Trump and that he raised the idea of using
the 25th Amendment to remove him from office for being unfit to govern.
AP's Sagar Meghani has more.
The president's in New York for the U.N. General Assembly and a spokeswoman says he'll meet
with Rosenstein when he is back Thursday.
She says the two men had an extended talk today at Rosenstein's request following reports
last week that he'd suggested secretly recording the president and using the constitution to
remove him from office.
Rosenstein went to the White House today expecting to be fired.
AP's Sagar Meghani reporting.
"I believe that accountability needs to serve now.
I think that the confirmation Brett Kavanaugh will set a precedence for lack of respect."
A young protester outside the Supreme Court in Washington speaking out about the pending
vote for nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
U.S. President Donald Trump continues to support him despite a new allegation of sexual misconduct.
The New Yorker magazine reported late Sunday that two U.S. senators are investigating a
woman's charge that Kavanaugh exposed himself at a Yale University dorm party in the early
1980s.
Mr. Trump addressed the allegation from New York where he is attending the U.N. General
Assembly.
"For people to come out of the woodwork from 36 years ago, and 30 years ago and never mention
it - all of a sudden it happens.
In my opinion it's totally political."
Kavanaugh has denied this new allegation, calling it "a smear, plain and simple."
For all the latest news around clock, please visit us at voanews.com or go to our mobile
app.
From Washington, this is VOA news.
The CIA is looking to expand its presence around the globe in order to eliminate so-called
"intelligence gaps" and take on the growing threat from major powers like Russia and China.
CIA Director Gina Haspel on Monday called the shift from counterterrorism back to more
traditional espionage against nation-states "a strategic priority."
Russia says it will supply Syria with a more modern S-300 missile defense system in the
coming weeks.
Russian defense minister says President Vladimir Putin ordered the upgrade after a Syrian Soviet
era S-200 shot down a Russian plane last Tuesday, killing all 15 on board.
Russia has blamed Israel, whose military was conducting airstrikes on Syria at the time
of the incident.
Russia has said the S-200 system is not advanced enough to distinguish Russian planes as friendly.
A second summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is in the
planning stage.
"We have an agreement to work out another summit and we look forward to doing that.
I'm going to be meeting with Chairman Kim in the not too distant future.
The location is being worked on, the time is being worked on, we'll be announcing it."
Despite the improved ties between Washington and Pyongyang, which have no diplomatic relations,
North Korea is not believed to have actually taken any promised steps toward giving up
its nuclear arsenal.
World leaders recommitted themselves Monday to the search for peace as they gathered for
a United Nations summit marking the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's birth.
Mandela's widow, Graca Machel, declared, "It's time to say, 'Enough is enough!'"
"It is time for every leader here to take responsibility, those who are directly involved
in the authorities plaguing our world, those who take sides and those who sit in silence.
As leaders of this time, you have moral imperative and the ability to bring the death and destructions
we witness on a daily basis to an end."
Prosecutors have asked the judge to send comedian Bill Cosby to prison for up to 10 years for
drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004.
On day one of the two-day sentencing hearing, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, District
Attorney Kevin Steele said not jailing Cosby would give him the opportunity to carry out
the same crime on other women.
Cosby is legally blind, and his attorney, Joseph Green, argued the superstar comic is
too frail to get through a long prison sentence.
Green is asking the judge to sentence Cosby to house arrest.
From Washington, I'm Jim Bertel, VOA new.
VOA NEWS September 26, 2018
VOA news.
I'm Christopher Cruise reporting.
At the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, President Trump called on world leaders to "isolate
Iran's regime as long as its aggression continues."
He accused Iran's leaders of sowing "chaos, death and destruction."
"Iran's neighbors have paid a heavy toll for the region's (regime's) agenda of aggression
and expansion.
That is why so many countries in the Middle East strongly supported my decision to withdraw
the United States from the horrible 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal and re-impose nuclear sanctions."
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani responded by accusing the Trump administration of economic
terrorism and having a plan for overthrowing the government in Tehran.
The U.S. Senate's partisan fight over President Trump's embattled Supreme Court nominee intensified
on Tuesday less than two days before Judge Brett Kavanaugh and one of his accusers are
expected to testify on whether Kavanaugh committed sexual assault as a teenager.
Associated Press correspondent Sagar Meghani reports Republicans on the Senate Judiciary
Committee have hired a female lawyer to question Kavanaugh's accuser at Thursday's hearing.
The Senate Judiciary Committee's not identifying the lawyer whom (who) it says is an "experienced
sex crimes prosecutor."
Republicans want a woman to question Ford since all 11 of the panel's GOP members are
men.
Ford's lawyer objects to the hearing, saying it's inconsistent with the GOP pledge to avoid
a "circus."
The number of babies born infected with syphilis in the U.S. has more than doubled since 2013,
according to a government report.
When untreated in the mother, syphilis increases the risk of miscarriage and newborn death.
This is VOA news.
The World Health Organization warns the Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic
of Congo is spreading to new parts of conflict-ridden North Kivu province, including areas that
border Uganda and Rwanda.
Correspondent Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from WHO headquarters in Geneva.
WHO health emergencies program chief Peter Salama says increasing insecurity and community
mistrust are hurting efforts to prevent the deadly Ebola virus from spreading.
He fears the combination of these and other factors could create ideal conditions for
an epidemic.
"... driven by a fear of a terrifying disease, but also exploited and manipulated by local
politicians prior to election."
The Ebola outbreak in North Kivu is the 10th in the DRC since 1976.
Salama says this outbreak is the most difficult.
The disgraced American comedian, Bill Cosby, has been sentenced to prison for three to
ten years for drugging and sexually assaulting a college employee in his home in 2004.
Bill Cosby had no comment to reporters as he was led away in handcuffs after his sentencing.
Judge Steven O'Neill quoted from victim Andrea Constand's statement to the court that Cosby
took her "beautiful, young spirit and crushed it."
O'Neill denied bail and appeared incredulous when Cosby's lawyers asked that he be allowed
home confinement during the appeals process.
Model Janice Dickinson, who is one of about 60 women who accuse Cosby of assault, looked
at him in court and said, "Here's the last laugh, pal."
I'm Margie Szaroleta.
Pope Francis says the priest sex abuse scandal and the Church's reaction are driving young
people and the future generations away from the Church.
On his last day of a four-day visit to the Baltics, Francis told a group of youths in
Estonia he understands why they are not devoting themselves to the Church.
He said it is the Church, not the young people, that has to change.
The head of the German Bishops Conference, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, apologized on Tuesday
for the sexual abuse of almost 4,000 children in the country over a period of nearly 70
years by members of the clergy.
He said those who are guilty must be punished.
The report released by the conference on Tuesday said 3,677 people were abused by clergy between
1946 and 2014.
The report said the true number of victims and perpetrators is likely to be much higher.
It said more than half of the victims were 13 or younger and most were boys.
You can find more on these and other late breaking and developing stories, from around
the world, around the clock, at voanews.com and on the VOA news mobile app.
I'm Christopher Cruise, VOA news.
VOA NEWS September 27, 2018
VOA news.
I'm Christopher Cruise reporting.
President Trump on Wednesday accused China of trying to interfere with the upcoming United
States congressional elections.
He claimed China's efforts are motivated by opposition to his tough trade policy.
Later at a news conference, the president said he had evidence of China's actions but
he cannot make it public right now.
"We have evidence.
It will come out.
Yeah, I can't tell you now, but it came - it didn't come out of nowhere, that I can tell
you."
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi called Trump's claim nonsense.
The president also said at the news conference that China seems to be intimidated by him.
"I like President Xi a lot.
I think he's a friend of mine, he may not be a friend of mine anymore, but I think he
probably respects - from what I hear, if you look at Mr. Pillsbury, the leading authority
on China.
He was on a good show, I won't mention the name of the show, recently, and he was saying
that China has total respect for Donald Trump and for Donald Trump's very, very large brain.
He said Donald Trump, they don't know what to do."
The United States again flew bombers over the disputed South China Sea this week.
The disclosure coming from American officials on Wednesday.
China has long claimed ownership of a large part of the South China Sea, an important
international trade route through which billions of dollars' worth of cargo is shipped annually.
On Wednesday, President Trump took the gavel of the U.N. Security Council, devoting most
of his remarks to criticism of Iran.
Trump withdrew the U.S. from a nuclear deal earlier this year.
"This horrible, one-sided deal allowed Iran to continue its path towards a bomb and gave
the regime a cash lifeline when they needed it the most."
Trump called Iran the world's leading sponsor of terrorism.
This is VOA news.
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday it is investigating new allegations of sexually
abusive behavior by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
The announcement came on the eve of a hearing that will help determine whether Kavanaugh
is confirmed to the nation's highest court.
Thursday's hearing will feature testimony from Kavanaugh and the first woman to accuse
him of sexual assault, Christine Blasey Ford.
She claims Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in 1982, when they were both teenagers.
Three women have now accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct or assault.
For the first time since taking office, President Trump is endorsing a possible solution in
the Middle East peace process.
The president had said he'd back whatever the Israelis and Palestinians might agree
to and now says he wants both to have their own state.
"That's what I think works best."
Saying during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his much anticipated
peace plan could be presented in the next few months.
Palestinians say he is biased toward Israel, quoting to the U.S. shifting its embassy to
Jerusalem.
The president says that removed a key barrier to peace.
"I took probably the biggest chip off the table," and says Israel will now have to make
concessions to the Palestinians in any talks.
Sagar Meghani, Washington.
The third super hurricane in a month is heading for Asia, this time setting its aim on Japan.
The storm is as strong as a Category 5 Atlantic hurricane, with winds above 200 kilometers
per hour.
The storm is expected to weaken over the next 72 hours and hit the Ryukyu Islands south
of Japan beginning late Friday.
It is then expected to turn north and northeast causing heavy rains and flooding Okinawa before
moving onto Tokyo late in the weekend.
An estimated 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications last winter.
That is the highest death toll from the flu since 1976.
The total was almost twice as much as what health officials had previously considered
a bad year.
The top story of the hour, President Trump on Wednesday accused China of trying to interfere
with the upcoming U.S. congressional elections.
He claimed China's efforts are motivated by opposition to his tough trade policy, and
said at a news conference that he had evidence of China's actions but could not make it public
right now.
China called the claims nonsense.
And the United States again flew bombers over the disputed South China Sea this week.
The U.S. regularly tries to undermine China by sending ships and planes into the region.
You can find more on these and other late breaking and developing stories, from around
the world, around the clock, at voanews.com and on the VOA news mobile app.
I'm Christopher Cruise, VOA news.
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