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More will follow when international travel rules are relaxed, officials say...

Unrest in the capital, Honiara, has eased, but political tensions remain...

Suu Kyi, 76, was sentenced to four years in prison for incitement and breaching coronavirus regulations but the military junta leaders reduced it to a two-year term of detention in her current location...

Every day, multiple buses rumble out of Afghanistan's western city of Herat, carrying hundreds of people to the border...

Facebook has said it is protected from liability over content posted by users by a US internet law known as Section 230...

Meeting between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin comes as Russia appears ready to launch massive invasion of former Soviet republic...

Police intervened with tear gas when the crowd started scuffling with supporters of Barrow...

Scientists can manipulate one virus to protect against another when making a vaccine...

UK authorities said the ban was deemed essential after 21 cases of the new variant were reported in travelers from Nigeria...

The Black teenager from Chicago was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after witnesses said he whistled at a white woman in Mississippi...

For a second year, COVID-19 has scuttled the traditional formal banquet in Stockholm attended by winners of the prizes in chemistry, physics, medicine, literature and economics, which were announced in October...

December 7, 1941 a date that will live in infamy...

He died of a long illness at his home in Johannesburg...

When Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin meet virtually on Tuesday, the two presidents will have to negotiate a history of mutual suspicion as they take up the urgent issue of a major Russian military buildup on the Ukraine border.The key question hanging over t...

Biden is looking to coordinate messaging and potential economic sanctions against Russia in response to the Ukraine situation...

Justice Department alleges that the new map discriminates against minority voters...

Dole died Sunday at the age of 98...

Demonstrators say police fired tear gas to disperse protesters...

US space agency says that better telescopes are discovering more objects and now a better system is predicting their paths...

The UN General Assembly upheld a committee decision to defer action on the Taliban and Myanmar military junta's requests to represent their countries in the international body...

Senate Democrats plan to make changes to the version of the Biden-supported proposal passed by the House...

The changes, adopted by the program council of RTV Slovenia on November 29, shorten or abolish some main news programs, while others move to a less-prominent second channel...

New Delhi summit aimed to reboot relationship that has stagnated in recent years as India moved closer to US and Russia to China...

Karl Lauterbach is known for supporting strict measures against COVID-19...

At least 30 people died on Sunday in fighting between Arabs and non-Arabs...

App can bring immediate help to victims, but experts say more is needed to end what the South African president calls the country's 'second pandemic'...

Ahead of December election, editorial called for blank protest voting...

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

Beijing responds with parallel democracy summit...

Let's Talk is an interactive discussion program about lifestyle issues. The show's host Sunday Shomari examines everything from African cuisine to cellphones, from online dating to arranged marriages, and more. Sunday collects audience questions a...

Let's Talk is an interactive discussion program about lifestyle issues. The show's host Sunday Shomari examines everything from African cuisine to cellphones, from online dating to arranged marriages, and more. Sunday collects audience questions a...

New requirement will affect 184,000 businesses in three weeks...

VOA's Sonny Young brings you the latest sports news and trends as well as questions and comments from sports fans around Africa and the world....

Kenyan runners Lawrence Cherono and Nancy Jelagat won the men's and women's titles in Sunday's Valencia Marathon in Spain.This was Cherono's ninth career marathon title, and we'll hear his post-race comments on Monday's show.Also o...

Analysts predict Turkish President Erdogan, in two-day Qatar visit, will be looking for financial backing for the collapsing Turkish lira while Qatar looks for support in its reopening efforts of Kabul airport...

The leader of the 400 Mawozo gang has threatened to kill the hostages unless his demands are met...

WHO's World Malaria Report estimates 241 million malaria cases and 627,000 malaria deaths globally have occurred in 2020...

NFL Team wore "O" for Oxford High School on helmets during game...

One of the scientists behind Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is warning that the next pandemic may be more contagious and more lethal unless more money is devoted to research and preparations to fight emerging viral threats...

Italy is making life more uncomfortable for unvaccinated people this holiday season, excluding them from indoor restaurants, theaters and museums starting Monday to reduce the spread of coronavirus and encourage vaccine skeptics to get their shots...