Ethiopia’s army chief of staff has been shot, the prime minister’s press secretary told Reuters Sunday, hours after a failed coup attempt was reported in…
your ad hereHall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer was banned by the ownership of Santa Anita on Saturday after a fourth horse from his stable died —…
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VOA’s national security correspondent Jeff Seldin contributed to this report. President Donald Trump said Saturday he planned “major” new sanctions against Iran to take effect…
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Amid increasingly tense China-U.S. relations, a U.S. official alluded to China but did not specifically name China regarding “risks” and “challenges” imposed by approaches to dam…
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has received a personal letter from U.S. President Donald Trump and is contemplating its contents, North Korean state media…
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Mauritanian voters went to the polls Saturday in the country’s first election without an incumbent presidential candidate since the 2008 coup. Polling stations closed at…
your ad hereHaving spent 2½ years in a government prison for collaboration with the Taliban in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, Abdul Wares, 42, now mourns with his…
your ad hereA skydiving plane crashed and burst into flames just after takeoff from a small seaside airfield on the island of Oahu, killing 11 people, officials…
your ad hereSecurity measures were increased at one of Iraq’s largest air bases that houses American trainers following an attack last week, a top Iraqi air force…
your ad hereWhite House senior adviser Jared Kushner spoke to “I have to say that this is one of the hardest problems that exists in the world….
your ad hereA new report finds nearly half of all people in the Central African Republic are suffering acute food shortages. The latest assessment by the Integrated…
your ad hereAs night fell, residents of a southern district in Khartoum briskly moved to set the stage for Sudanese protest leaders giving a brief on the…
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Organizers of Georgia’s first LGBT+ pride march called off the event at the eleventh hour Friday after a wave of political unrest in Tbilisi that…
your ad hereNine passengers and crew were killed Friday evening when their plane crashed near an airfield in Hawaii, authorities said, during what broadcaster CNN said was…
your ad hereAn Ecuador court ordered the release Thursday of a Swedish national who has ties to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and who was accused of computer…
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Lawmakers on Friday were calling for swift change after reports this week of more than 250 infants, children and teens being held inside a windowless…
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Hong Kong police sharply criticized anti-government protesters for besieging their headquarters but refrained from using force to disperse them, in a contrast to the violence…
your ad hereMauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has defended the continued detention of a blogger who has served jail time for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad….
your ad herePakistan’s Punjab province Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) this week said it killed two prominent Islamic State (IS) operatives in the province and closed “a big…
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The World Food Program says it has begun a partial suspension of food aid in Sanaa, Yemen, which is controlled by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, because…
your ad hereGeorge Weah once heard the roar of adoring crowds as one of Africa’s greatest soccer players. He became Liberia’s president in January 2018, and a year…
your ad hereU.S. President Donald Trump has ordered immigration enforcement officials to conduct a mass roundup of migrants who have received deportation orders, in an operation that…
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Opposition lawmakers in Malawi walked out of parliament Friday as President Peter Mutharika started delivering the state of the nation address. The opposition was protesting…
your ad hereThis story originated in VOA’s Georgian service. Georgia and Russia are blaming each other for a series of overnight clashes that erupted in Tbilisi after…
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