A two-day search for missing Chinese mariner Guo Chuan ended late Wednesday, according to U.S. Coast Guard Hawaii Branch officials. They said they did not find the missing sailor and…
continue readingThree months before leaving office, President Barack Obama has shortened the prison sentences for 98 convicts serving time for drug-related offenses, the White House said Thursday. So far this year,…
continue readingColombia delayed peace talks with Marxist ELN rebels until they free a politician held captive for six months, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Thursday, as he struggles to refloat…
continue readingIn several gift stores in the bowels of the U.S. State Department, diplomats, civil servants and authorized visitors can purchase clothing, key chains, coffee cups and knickknacks emblazoned with the…
continue readingAlthough it is still a long way off, an injectable male contraceptive is in development. It would join condoms, withdrawal and vasectomies as an option for men to use to…
continue readingAfter the Iraqi army retook the Christian town of Al-Hamdaniya this week, locals returned to find destroyed homes after two years of Islamic State control. VOA’s Kawa Omar reports. …
continue readingIn the innermost chamber of the site said to be the tomb of Jesus, a restoration team has peeled away a marble layer for the first time in centuries in…
continue readingProtesters clashed with police Thursday in the state of North Dakota at a site where activists have been trying for months to block construction of an oil pipeline that they…
continue readingOne of thousands of early voters at the Guilford County Courthouse in Greensboro, North Carolina, Scott Herrick didn’t mind the 45-minute wait to cast his ballot in the U.S. presidential…
continue readingEarly voting is underway in more than 35 states, with millions of votes cast already in the U.S. presidential election. VOA’s Chris Simkins reports from the battleground state of North…
continue readingThe Obama administration remains confident that Russia is hacking U.S. cyberspace to interfere with the November election, despite Russia’s denial, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Thursday. Earnest told reporters…
continue readingCameroon’s President Paul Biya has created a commission to investigate why a train derailed last week, leaving at least 80 people dead and about 600 injured. But John Fru Ndi,…
continue readingThe 2016 U.S. presidential race, now in the homestretch, has been full of insults, rumors and name-calling — so many that some people are beginning to have doubts about the…
continue readingAs national parks traveler Mikah Meyer continues his adventures in the northeastern region of the United States, he had an opportunity to visit several national park sites in and around…
continue readingKyrgyz authorities have opened a criminal investigation into why a village family was forced to bury their 76-year-old mother three times due to religious restrictions. …
continue readingThe European Union added 10 more Syrians to its sanctions list, accusing them of involvement in the attacks on the besieged city of Aleppo. …
continue readingRussian President Vladimir Putin says that his efforts to reach a deal with U.S. President Barack Obama on ending the civil war in Syria have been thwarted by “forces” in…
continue readingMourners in Yerevan paid tribute to eight officials, including the former prime minister and speaker of parliament, who were killed in an attack on the Armenian parliament on October 27,…
continue readingA Moscow court has sentenced a former Defense Ministry official to 12 years in prison for treason, the latest in a string of treason cases heard by Russian courts. …
continue readingThe first DNA testing system in Tajikistan is doing a brisk business in paternity tests. Technicians at the Dushanbe clinic says most of their clients are migrant workers who have…
continue readingOfficials say a judge in Russia’s long-troubled North Caucasus region has been shot and killed. …
continue readingThe millions of votes that have been cast already in the U.S. presidential election point to an advantage for Hillary Clinton in critical battleground states, as well as signs of…
continue readingThe post-coup attempt fallout continued in Turkey Thursday as authorities ordered the detention of 73 air force pilots alleged to have been part of the failed July putsch. Turkish state…
continue readingRussia’s Foreign Ministry has said that neither Russian nor Syrian government aircraft carried out an air strike against a school in Syria’s Idlib Province that killed 28 people, including 22…
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