Elizabeth, New Jersey was thrown into the spotlight as authorities converged on a family-run restaurant where they say bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami worked. VOA reporter Tina Trinh has reaction…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump expressed displeasure with the medical care and legal representation going to the suspect arrested in Saturday’s bombing in New York City. Ahmad Khan Rahami was…

Nourhan Isso’s timing was bad. The Syrian student who fled Aleppo crossed the Aegean from the Turkish coast to the nearby Greek island of Chios on March 20 with her…

India on Monday launched its first internet hotline to encourage people to report online child pornography and curb a surge in photographs and videos on the internet showing children being…

From pioneering programs in slum housing to mobile phone banking, Santiago and Nairobi are emerging hot spots for business leaders seeking to drive social change, according to a poll of…

An effort to boost large-scale solar energy production in Pakistan has hit a roadblock after the government cut the rate it pays for solar electricity, frustrating investors. Pakistan’s Punjab province…

An unarmed black man killed by a white Oklahoma officer who was responding to a stalled vehicle can be seen in police video walking away from officers and toward his…

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s apparent rejection of U.S. military help in patrolling a contested sea and in fighting Muslim rebels may mark just another angry outburst rather than an order…

Efforts to stop immigration and the mix of cultures are bound to fail, Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto told a United Nations summit on migrants and refugees on Monday, as…

The man thought to be behind a series of bombings and attempted bombings in New York and New Jersey may not have been part of a terror cell, but based…

If all goes as planned, a group of U.S. university students will have placed a satellite powered exclusively by water, into orbit around the moon in just over a year.…

After the Orlando, Florida, nightclub shooting in June, many Afghan-Americans distanced themselves from attacker Omar Mateen, the New York-born man whose parents immigrated from Afghanistan in the 1980s. After the…

The suspect in Saturday night’s bombing in New York City that wounded 29 people is in a hospital recovering from bullet wounds after a shootout with police. Prosecutors have charged…

It’s affectionately called America’s front yard – The National Mall in Washington, DC. Along the grassy expanse are museums, monuments, and parks. But you’ll also come across a curious little…

A big blow was dealt to efforts to bring about peace in Syria when aid trucks trying to reach besieged Aleppo were hit in an airstrike Monday. The attack almost…

Thousands of people have been forced to flee after a fire broke out at a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. Volunteers at the Moria refugee camp said…

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party pulled off a landslide victory in Sunday’s elections for seats in the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament. Putin’s party won…

The coalition strike that Syria and Russia claim hit Syrian government troops may have struck a battalion of Syrian prisoners who were aligned with Syrian government forces but were in…

Election observers have weighed in on Russia’s parliamentary election, saying the vote fell short of being free and fair. The election observer mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation…