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Ghana's opposition led a second day of protests Wednesday over the high cost of living and record inflation. Police fired tear gas at protesters Tuesday and made several arrests.Clad in red and black, the hundreds of protesters chanted war songs while...

Analysts Explain to VOA What The recent Flareup of Violence Could Mean...

He says gathering information from secondary sources could tarnish the credibility and neutrality of his report...

The government expresses support for AU mediation of talks, while TPLF looks to Kenya...

Thai economists say demand for rice is set to increase this year driven by the war in Ukraine...

Intensifying systematic and widespread repression in Belarus is eroding peoples' civic and political rights...

The court ruled 5-4 in favor of Oklahoma over the state's attempt to prosecute Victor Castro-Huerta, a non-Native American convicted of child neglect...

VOA's live worldwide international music request show with host Larry London....

VOA's live worldwide international music request show with host Larry London....

VOA's live worldwide international music request show with host Larry London....

Taliban say Foreign Minister Amir Muttaqi and US Envoy Thomas West to lead their respective teams...

In the last decade, the military invested billions of dollars upgrading air and missile defenses...

'If [the] Thai government sends them back to China, it's like we send them to death,' says opposition lawmaker Rangsiman Rome....

Lowy Institute survey reveals Australians' trust in China is at a record low...

It's the first in-person meeting of Japan-South Korea leaders since 2019...

Thailand has a reputation as an open society, but it is underpinned by a conservative culture which has resisted same-sex unions and other gender equality laws...

In Colorado's Republican primary for the US Senate, businessman Joe O'Dea became one of the only abortion-rights-supporting Republican in the nation to win a statewide primary...

Filipino journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa announced in a speech in Hawaii Tuesday that the Philippine government is affirming a previous order to shut down Rappler, the news website she co-founded...

High court ruled that police officers can't be sued for failing to advise suspects of their right to remain silent during an interrogation...

Russia's war in Ukraine among topics on agenda...

State Department issued security alert ahead of events marking the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China's rule...

Seven-time champion Serena Williams suffered a second straight Wimbledon first-round exit as she was stunned by French debutant Harmony Tan in a late-night Centre Court epic on Tuesday...

The journalist is accused of 'hurting religious sentiment' of Hindus in a tweet from 2018...

The midterm primary season entered a new, more volatile phase on Tuesday as voters participate in the first elections since the U.S. Supreme Court's decision revoking a woman's constitutional right to an abortion jolted the nation's politics....

The latest developments in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine...

Biden says $600 billion Western-funded infrastructure plan is built on shared values of transparency, partnership, protections for labor, environment...

A German court on Tuesday handed a five-year jail sentence to a 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, the oldest person to go on trial for complicity in war crimes during the Holocaust....

The commission's final report is based on interviews with 30,000 war victims, military leaders, former guerrilla fighters and five former Colombian presidents...

Advisers to the U.S. government are recommending that COVID-19 booster shots used this fall be modified to better match more recent variants of the coronavirus. A final decision from the Food and Drug Administration is expected within days, and it will ha...

The three countries will also conduct a combined missile detection and tracking exercise near Hawaii in August, called Pacific Dragon...

Most monkeypox patients experience only fever, body aches, chills and fatigue....

High court ruled that police officers can't be sued for failing to advise suspects of their right to remain silent during an interrogation...

Cassidy Hutchinson recounts how Trump thought VP Mike Pence should be hung...

Turkey lifts objections to Sweden and Finland joining NATO...

The breakthrough came after four hours of talks just before a NATO summit began in Madrid, averting an embarrassing impasse at the gathering of 30 leaders that aims to show resolve against Russia...

Commerce Department also added additional 31 entities to blacklist from countries including Russia, UAE, Lithuania, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan and Vietnam, according to Federal Register entry...

Ghislaine Maxwell, the jet-setting socialite who once consorted with royals, presidents and billionaires, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday for helping wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls.The stiff sentence was the pu...

More than 100 people, including many women, have been murdered in a Syrian camp in just 18 months, the United Nations said Tuesday, demanding countries repatriate their citizens.The Al-Hol camp is increasingly unsafe, and the child detainees are being con...

Go beyond the headlines with VOA's Flashpoint Ukraine. Each weekday at 2105 UTC, VOA's Steve Miller puts the latest development into global context with interviews and analysis....

The newly opened Padma Bridge has been hailed as the Bangladesh government's greatest achievement...

Number reflects those killed by the fighting, not those who died from indirect causes...

Russia intensifies its attacks on major cities in Ukraine's north and south, as leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations ended their summit in Germany with a pledge to cap the price of Russian oil to try to dent that nation's war chest....

A look at the best news photos from around the world....

Cassidy Hutchinson was an assistant to former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows...

Ethiopia's war with Tigrayan forces has left less than 10 percent of the region's clinics functioning and hospitals struggling to cope...

US funding will provide essential food, health and sanitation supplies to Afghans impacted by last week's deadly earthquake...

Study finds more than a quarter-million children in armed conflict endured grave violations between 2005 and 2020...

Rebels deny role in attacks, which left at least 30 people dead...

VOA's live worldwide international music request show with host Larry London....