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Full developments of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine...

The nation's weather forecaster warns of more severe weather on Sunday and Monday for the north island...

An Afghan soldier now free as he works to secure asylum in the United States...

Troops deployed to help fight jihadi insurgency will leave within a month...

Incident happened at site said to ammunition factory...

Supervisor demanded he pay $100 to repair a forklift...

New mobile app gives error messages, freezes up...

She was the only Iranian woman to qualify for last year's Beijing Winter Games...

5 officers have been fired and charged with murder...

It's at least the sixth mass shooting in California this month...

The French government this week denounced the plight of seven French citizens held in Iranian prisons, calling the detentions 'unjustifiable and unacceptable'...

Ukrainian leader says countering Russia missiles key to saving lives...

Ukraine started receiving Bulgarian-made ammunition last April, and in an interview with VOA, Kiril Petkov talks about the stealth operation...

Howard was the first Black screenwriter to write a drama that passed $100 million at the box office when "Titans" crossed that milestone in 2000...

Peru's embattled president Dina Boluarte fails to get support for her idea on how to get the country out of a deepening political crisis...

The quake, with a magnitude of up to 5.9, destroyed houses in a main provincial city in Iran, say Iranian media and the European Mediterranean Seismological Center...

Hours before his murder, King Mswati III had warned activists who defy him not to...

The number of COVID deaths showed a weekly decline, according to official data...

No foreign government has yet granted legitimacy to the de facto Afghan rulers, citing human rights concerns and their treatment of women...

The five Memphis Police Department officers involved in the arrest have been fired and charged with second-degree murder and other crimes...

The new leader seeks to secure new supplies of natural gas to replace Russian energy amid Moscow's war on Ukraine...

CEO Armin Papperger spoke days before Germany's defense industry bosses are scheduled to meet new defense minister Boris Pistorius for the first time...

Turkey has suspended talks with Sweden and Finland on their applications to join NATO after the protest at which Rasmus Paludan, leader of the Danish far-right political party Hard Line, burned a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm...

61-year-old former army chief Petr Pavel was set to win more than 58% of the vote with nearly all voting districts having reported, defeating billionaire ex-premier Andrej Babis, a dominant but polarizing force in Czech politics for a decade...

Eritrean troops fought alongside the Ethiopian military and allied militias in the two-year conflict that pitted the Ethiopian government against rebellious forces in the northern region of Tigray...

Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said Ukraine's supporters in the West 'understand how the war is developing' and the need to supply planes capable of providing cover for the armored fighting vehicles t...

The Kujira (Whale) Store, an unmanned outlet that recently opened in the port town of Yokohama near Tokyo, houses three vending machines for whale sashimi, whale bacon, whale skin and whale steak, as well as canned whale meat...

Fourteen other people were wounded in the attack, which also damaged four apartment buildings and a hotel, Donetsk governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said...

Volker Trk says Myanmar has plunged deeper into crisis since the military launched a coup nearly two years ago against the democratically elected government...

UNAIDS says thousands of children are dying from HIV/AIDS because, unlike adults, they do not receive treatment for the deadly disease...

The pope, who began using a wheelchair last year, is visiting two countries where years of conflict have disabled many, and yet they are among the world's most difficult places to find accessibility and understanding. His visit is heartening Catholics...

One of three pilots has died...

7 people shot dead Friday in Jerusalem synogogue...

10 civilians killed in Russian strikes in Eastern Ukraine...

Workers are looking for the tiny capsule...

Interior Secretary halts proposed mining in Minnesota...

A summary of Uyghur-related news around the world...

Devadasis are expected to live a life of religious devotion, forbidden from marrying other mortals, and forced at puberty to sacrifice their virginity to older man, in return for money or gifts...

Several UN officials visit Afghanistan to try to reverse restrictions on women's rights...

In July 2022, the suspect recorded footage of an unrelated shooting, saying, 'We don't feel safe at all'...

Pelosi said she does not intend to watch the video...

Full developments of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine...

Will sharp-tongued Xie Feng, widely touted for the job, remain a 'wolf warrior' or soften his tone and actions?...

The nasal delivery system is designed to be cost-effective and easy to use, especially for low- and middle-income countries...

State of emergency remains in place in city of 1.6 million people on New Zealand's north island...

It's a concession for Dina Boluarte, who has been facing daily protests that have left almost 60 people dead...

The comet might not return for millions of years....