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Restrictions continued in much of Indian-administered Kashmir on Sunday, despite India’s government saying it was gradually restoring phone lines and easing a security lockdown that’s…

 Jaffar Mjasiri contributed to this article. A Tanzanian regional governor is calling for a nationwide public database listing married men as a means of protecting…

The World Food Program warns that millions of people in Burkina Faso are facing what it calls an unprecedented humanitarian emergency because of growing hunger,…

Three Palestinian men were killed by Israeli forces, the Palestinian health ministry said Sunday, adding that another Palestinian man was wounded in the shooting.  An…

This story was first reported in VOA Learning English.  As tuition and fees have increased sharply in the U.S. over the past 30 years, schools…

For many, blindness or poor vision can keep them from activities like cycling. But a NYC non-profit called InTandem works to make cycling accessible to…

Workers erected a wooden wall around Mexico City’s iconic Angel of Independence monument Saturday after feminists defaced it with graffiti during a raucous and violent…

LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO – Officials at Los Alamos National Laboratory have plans for $13 billion worth of construction projects over the next decade at…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina’s treasury minister, Nicolas Dujovne, resigned Saturday and will be replaced by the economy minister of the country’s most populous state, a…

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – An explosion ripped through a wedding hall on a busy Saturday night in Afghanistan’s capital and dozens of people were killed or…

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, PAKISTAN – Pakistani intelligence officials said a roadside bomb attack killed two army soldiers Saturday in the country’s northwest.    The officials said the…

BEIRUT – Airstrikes have killed more than two dozen civilians in northwestern Syria in the last two days in an escalation of a Russian-backed offensive against the last major…

Italy’s hard-line interior minister appeared to buckle under pressure Saturday to ease the political standoff over a migrant rescue ship with 134 people aboard, saying…

Conflicting demonstrations were expected to draw hundreds of protesters Saturday to the city of Portland, Oregon, where police were positioning in the downtown area to…

New York City police say they’ve apprehended a man suspected of placing two devices that looked like pressure cookers in a subway station.   Chief…

DENALI NATIONAL PARK, Alaska  – Road crews have cleared one lane in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve, and buses are beginning to return about…

Media organizations say Australia has become a secretive state that is actively restricting the press. The leaders of the country’s major newspapers and broadcasters have…

U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar has rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assertions that she and fellow lawmaker Rashida Tlaib had no intention of meeting with…

U.S. President Donald Trump met Friday with his national security team to discuss the U.S. negotiations with the Afghan Taliban, the White House said. The…

Members of China’s paramilitary People’s Armed Police marched and practiced crowd control tactics at a sports complex in Shenzhen across from Hong Kong in what…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday the U.S.-Israel relationship can withstand the “weakness” of President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who shook diplomatic…

Carol Van Dam contributed to this report. KHARTOUM, SUDAN – Sudan’s Forces of Freedom and Change, the country’s main opposition alliance, has nominated economist Mohammed Abdalla Hamdok to…

Victoria Macchi contributed to this report. The Trump administration this week finalized a rule that will expand the definition of a person who could become…

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council met privately Friday to discuss India’s Aug. 5 decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, which…