Once a refugee, Captain Safia Ferozi is now flying transport planes for Afghanistan’s air force. While she helps her country’s efforts to stop the insurgency by Taliban militants, she is…
continue readingIowa Governor Terry Branstad has been nominated to be the next United States ambassador to China. Branstad is a longtime friend of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his nomination, first…
continue readingIowa Governor Terry Branstad has been nominated to be the next United States ambassador to China. Branstad is a longtime friend of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his nomination, first…
continue readingA passenger plane in Pakistan carrying 47 people crashed on a mountainside near the northern town of Havelian. Amateur video showed burning wreckage and people gathering at the site of…
continue readingA passenger plane in Pakistan carrying 47 people crashed on a mountainside near the northern town of Havelian. Amateur video showed burning wreckage and people gathering at the site of…
continue readingForces in Somalia’s Puntland region have retaken Qandala, the only town in the country that was controlled by fighters allied with Islamic State. Fadumo Yasin Jama, a reporter for VOA’s…
continue readingCorruption accusations by a former ally of Ukraine’s president have reverberated beyond the country’s borders, as fugitive lawmaker Oleksandr Onyshchenko says he’s turned damning recordings over to the FBI. …
continue readingCorruption accusations by a former ally of Ukraine’s president have reverberated beyond the country’s borders, as fugitive lawmaker Oleksandr Onyshchenko says he’s turned damning recordings over to the FBI. …
continue readingNearly two years after encouraging Chinese companies to go on an acquisitions spree overseas, stirring global markets, Beijing is asking them now to pull back. For the first time, China…
continue readingA telegram telling of the attack on Pearl Harbor and a West Point cadet’s letter afterwards seeking advice from his father, General Dwight Eisenhower, are among exhibits at a U.S.…
continue readingA telegram telling of the attack on Pearl Harbor and a West Point cadet’s letter afterwards seeking advice from his father, General Dwight Eisenhower, are among exhibits at a U.S.…
continue readingA court in Moscow has rejected a man’s attempt to sue Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). Former prosecutor Igor Stepanov had filed a lawsuit against the FSB for ordering him…
continue readingA new survey has determined that approximately 70 percent of Afghans believe their country is moving in the wrong direction, showing the lowest level of optimism in more than a…
continue readingA new survey has determined that approximately 70 percent of Afghans believe their country is moving in the wrong direction, showing the lowest level of optimism in more than a…
continue readingTime magazine has named U.S. President-elect Donald Trump its “Person of the Year” for 2016, after his upset victory over Hillary Clinton. …
continue readingTime magazine has named U.S. President-elect Donald Trump its “Person of the Year” for 2016, after his upset victory over Hillary Clinton. …
continue readingPresident-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that former critic and 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is still being considered for secretary of state, reinforcing reports that Romney remains the leading…
continue readingPresident-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that former critic and 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is still being considered for secretary of state, reinforcing reports that Romney remains the leading…
continue readingPakistan’s supreme court is considering setting up a commission to investigate alleged corruption by the country’s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif. (RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal) …
continue readingPakistan’s supreme court is considering setting up a commission to investigate alleged corruption by the country’s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif. (RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal) …
continue readingThe world’s largest radio telescope reaches for the stars, but astronomers hope the Russian government will reach deeper into its wallet to keep it up and running. (RFE/RL’s Current Time…
continue readingThe world’s largest radio telescope reaches for the stars, but astronomers hope the Russian government will reach deeper into its wallet to keep it up and running. (RFE/RL’s Current Time…
continue readingTIME magazine named President-elect Donald Trump as its annual ‘Person of the Year’ on Wednesday, citing “for better or worse” the influence he held throughout 2016. During a phone interview…
continue readingKazakh authorities say they detained several people suspected of illegal oil sales during a large-scale security operation in the northwestern city of Aqtobe on December 7. …
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