December 14, 2017 0 VOA Newscasts Give us 5 minutes, and we’ll give you the world. Around the clock, Voice of America keeps you in touch with the latest ...
December 13, 2017 0 British Baby With Heart Outside Body Survives 3 Surgeries English hospital officials said Wednesday that a baby born with her heart outside her body had survived three surgeries to mend ...
December 13, 2017 0 French Village Celebrates 20 Years of its Nativity Scene Tours The Christmas season drives economies around the world. It’s typically a time when retailers rejoice. As Arash Arabasadi ...
December 13, 2017 0 Democrat Jones Wins Alabama Senate Election Democrat Doug Jones won the special election to fill a vacant U.S. Senate seat representing the southern state of Alabama, ...
December 13, 2017 0 Waddling into History: Huge Ancient Penguin Inhabited New Zealand Scientists have unearthed in New Zealand fossil bones of what might be the heavyweight champion of the penguin world, a bird ...
December 13, 2017 0 US Mass Shootings Aren’t More Frequent — But They Are Deadlier It can sometimes seem as though mass shootings are occurring more frequently. Researchers who have been studying such crimes for ...
December 13, 2017 0 EU Cuts Cambodia Election Funding The European Union in Cambodia on Tuesday said it was suspending planned funding of Cambodia’s national election body. The ...
December 12, 2017 0 Alabama Voters Picking Senator in Race Watched Nationally Voters in the southern U.S. state of Alabama are voting Tuesday in a closely watched election to fill the Senate seat left by ...
December 12, 2017 0 Militant Attack Near Afghan Border Kills 2 Pakistani Soldiers Militants ambushed a Pakistan army convoy Tuesday in the remote North Waziristan region, killing at least two soldiers. A brief ...
December 12, 2017 0 Paris Summit Focused on Boosting Funding for Climate Change Fight French President Emmanuel Macron gathered business leaders and 50 world leaders in Paris for a summit Tuesday focused on boosting ...
December 12, 2017 0 China Displays Clout at Internet Conference But Some Doubts Remain China made an impressive display of its clout in the digital economy during a three-day internet conference in Beijing last week ...
December 12, 2017 0 Food and Safety Concerns Fuel Rise in Refugee Rohingya Child Brides Many Rohingya families who have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar are marrying off their daughters early to ease the financial ...
December 11, 2017 0 Trump to Revive US Manned Space Exploration Program President Donald Trump will sign a directive Monday ordering the National Air and Space Administration to revive the program to ...
December 11, 2017 0 Trump Makes Final Pitch for Embattled Alabama Senate Candidate In robocalls, president says ‘all of our progress will be stopped cold’ if Democrat Doug Jones wins ...
December 11, 2017 0 Emboldened, Some Uzbek Imams Turn on Loudspeakers to Call for Prayer Some mosques in Uzbekistan are starting to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer from loudspeakers for the first time in a decade ...
December 11, 2017 0 US Trade Chief: WTO Losing Focus, Must Rethink Development U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade chief said on Monday that the World Trade Organization is losing its focus on trade ...
December 11, 2017 0 New Indonesian Armed Forces Chief Seen as Ally of President The new head of Indonesia’s armed forces, Air Force chief Hadi Tjahjanto, is seen as a close ally of President Joko ...
December 11, 2017 0 Honduras’ Electoral Court Finds Results ‘Consistent’ Honduras’ electoral court finished a hand recount of votes in nearly 5,000 ballot boxes Sunday, saying that results were ...
December 10, 2017 0 Al Qaida Seeks to Capitalize on Muslim Anger Over Jerusalem Al Qaida is seeking to to exploit Muslim anger over President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of ...
December 10, 2017 0 UN: 137 Children Need Emergency Evacuation from Syria The United Nations children’s agency has called for an emergency evacuation of 137 sick children stranded in a rebel-held ...
December 10, 2017 0 Romania: Protests of Laws Viewed as lax on Graft Renewed More than 10,000 people on Sunday participated in another round of protests against Romanian legislation that critics say would ...
December 10, 2017 0 UN Envoy Haley: Trump’s Accusers Have Right to be Heard The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says the women who accused President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct have the right ...
December 10, 2017 0 With Opposition Sitting Out, Venezuela’s Socialists Set to Gain Mayors Venezuela’s ruling Socialist Party looked set to sweep Sunday’s nationwide mayoral polls, deepening opposition splits and ...
December 10, 2017 0 William and Harry Choose Sculptor for Diana Statue A sculptor who produced the image of Queen Elizabeth used on Britain’s coins has been chosen to create a new statue of Princess ...