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VOA’s Khalid Mafton and Mohammad Habibzada contributed to this story. With the United States aiming for a potential deal with the Afghan Taliban by September, analysts…

An Oregon state senator who was among the Republican lawmakers who fled the Capitol last month to scuttle a vote on a bill to fight…

Democratic 2020 hopeful Elizabeth Warren says that if elected president she would sign executive orders aimed at addressing the wage and employment leadership gap for…

U.S. employers sharply stepped up their hiring in June, adding a robust 224,000 jobs, an indication of the economy’s durability after more than a decade…

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday repeated his call for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, saying that such a step would further boost…

Thousands of Algerians took to the streets Friday to demand new democratic leadership and celebrate their country’s hard-fought independence from colonial France.  Amid extra-high security…

The U.K. competition watchdog on Friday launched an investigation into Amazon’s purchase of a big stake in food delivery service Deliveroo, a move that suggests…

Danish prosecutors have charged three men under Denmark’s anti-terror laws on suspicion of buying drones and components with the purpose of delivering them to the…

U.S. government lawyers are scrambling to meet a court ordered Friday afternoon deadline to offer a plausible rationale for including a citizenship question on the…

The stepson of Malaysian ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak pleaded not guilty Friday to laundering $248 million from the 1MDB state investment fund, becoming the third…

Millennium-old Cambodian artifacts displayed in a Japanese collector’s home for two decades have been returned to the Southeast Asian country’s National Museum. The 85 artifacts…

More than two dozen countries Thursday formally called for a United Nations investigation into thousands of killings in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs,…

Sudan’s ruling military council and a coalition of opposition and protest groups reached an agreement to share power during a transition period leading to elections,…

Australia’s government warned a student on Friday not to return to North Korea a day after he was released from detention by Pyongyang under mysterious…

Fifteen Syrian women who fled to neighboring Lebanon because of the Syrian conflict are taking up the fight against an increasing issue among young Syrian…

A leading international human rights organization criticized the Iraqi government Thursday for holding thousands of prisoners, including children, in degrading and “inhuman” conditions.      Human…

The nuclear reactor on one of the Russian navy’s research submersibles hasn’t been damaged in a fire that killed 14 seamen, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu…

An Australian student released after a week in detention in North Korea arrived in Tokyo on Thursday after telling reporters he was in “very good”…

A primary for Queens district attorney that was already receiving national attention as a proxy for the national fight between different Democratic factions is taking…

< div>The International Criminal Court prosecutor on Thursday filed a request with judges to open a formal investigation of crimes against humanity allegedly committed against…

Taliban and U.S. negotiators are scrambling to rewrite a draft agreement that will outline the withdrawal of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan and a…

U.S. federal courts and states that challenged the Trump administration’s decision to include a citizenship question on the country’s 2020 census are asking for clarity…

The United Nations says at least 55 people were killed and more than 130 injured in the Tuesday night airstrike on a detention center holding…

Pakistani counterterrorism officials have registered 23 cases related to terrorism financing against more than a dozen people, including Hafiz Saeed, a central figure in the…