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Anjana Pasricha contributed to this report. India eased restrictions Friday in Kashmir to allow the Muslim-majority population to attend Friday prayers, but protests still brokeчитати
Updated: Aug. 9, 2019, 6:13 p.m. SEOUL — North Korea fired two unidentified projectiles into the sea off its eastern coast on Saturday, South Korea’s militaryчитати
Afghanistan faces a presidential election next month but few believe the vote will take place as the United States and the Taliban inch closer toчитати
Police said a man carrying a rifle and wearing body armor entered a Walmart store in the Midwestern U.S. state of Missouri Thursday. Springfield policeчитати
More than 2 million Muslims are in Saudi Arabia at Mecca, Islam’s holiest site, for the yearly Hajj pilgrimage. The Hajj is one of theчитати
Hundreds of immigrant workers detained in Mississippi were released Thursday, a day after federal agents arrested 680 undocumented migrants in raids on food-processing plants, the largestчитати
< div>VOA’s Afghanistan Service contributed to this report. WASHINGTON — Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security, the country’s intelligence agency, released a new video showing its specialчитати
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – The Republican Party, the Trump campaign and other GOP organizations said Thursday that they were freezing their spending on Twitter to protestчитати
The S&P 500 registered its largest one-day percentage gain in about two months Thursday, with technology shares providing the biggest boost as equities continued toчитати
On the ground, climate change is hitting us where it counts: the stomach — not to mention the forests, plants and animals. A new Unitedчитати
The militiamen pointed out across the hills, a landscape of nothing but stone and brush in southern Yemen. Over there, invisible, were the closest positionsчитати
U.S. officials say the Trump administration’s top diplomat for Latin America has resigned amid internal disputes over immigration policy for the region. Two officials andчитати
The United States raised its travel warning for Hong Kong, urging travelers to exercise increased caution in the Chinese territory because of what it termedчитати
U.S. officials said that some 680 undocumented migrants were detained in raids Wednesday at food processing plants in the southeastern United States, part of Presidentчитати
GUATEMALA CITY — Conservative Alejandro Giammattei could prevail in Guatemala’s presidential runoff Sunday if misgivings about his opponent among urban voters outweigh her support in the Central American nation’s poor Mayanчитати
Papua New Guinea’s new leader has asked China to refinance its entire 27 billion kina ($7.8 billion) government debt and enter into free trading arrangementsчитати
A quarter of the world’s people are just a few dry spells away from facing dangerous water shortages, a U.S. think tank warned on Tuesday,читати
Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday said it would offer a $13-per-month bundle of its three streaming services starting in November, a move to attract audiencesчитати
President Donald Trump this week declared China a currency manipulator after Beijing stopped purchasing U.S. agricultural products and allowed its yuan to weaken. VOA’s Arashчитати
North Korea launched a fresh round of short-range ballistic missiles into the sea early Tuesday and warned it could take a “new road” in responseчитати
U.S. stocks closed sharply higher Tuesday, rebounding from the biggest drop of the year after China stepped in to strengthen its currency. The Dow Jonesчитати
A South African group of teenage pilots who flew a self-assembled aircraft across Africa are back in South Africa after tragedy struck the expedition. Theчитати
Lee Juhyun in Seoul and Pentagon correspondent Carla Babb in Tokyo contributed to this report. North Korea launched a fresh round of ballistic missiles intoчитати
Newtown. Charleston. Orlando. Parkland. And now after mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, Congress again is confronted with the question of what,читати
Volunteers on Monday planted crosses, each representing a fatality in Saturday’s mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, at a shrine toчитати
Wall Street’s major indexes posted their biggest percentage drop of the year on Monday as a fall in the yuan following U.S. President Donald Trump’sчитати
Uganda has started its largest Ebola vaccine trial to date, health authorities announced Monday, in an apparent effort to prevent the disease from spreading. Anчитати
Nigerian technologist Chinenye Udeh wants to ensure schoolgirls learn Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for summer. Udeh says she is trying to boost gender parityчитати
In a far-reaching move, India’s Hindu nationalist government has scrapped the special autonomous status given to Kashmir for decades, sparking fears of a backlash inчитати
In the border town of El Paso, Texas, a shooter opened fire and left 20 people dead and more than two dozen injured. Hours laterчитати
The US and the Taliban met to thrash out elements of a deal to bring a close to Afghanistan’s 18-year conflict at the second dayчитати
After two mass shootings in a span of 13 hours, there have now been more than 250 such events this year in which at leastчитати
Turkey will carry out a military operation in a Kurdish-controlled area east of the Euphrates in northern Syria, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday,читати
In 13 hours of carnage in the United States, two shooters in separate incidents killed 29 people and injured dozens, leaving authorities searching for motivesчитати
Iranian media say the Revolutionary Guard has seized an oil tanker carrying 700,000 liters of “smuggled fuel” in the Persian Gulf. The semi-official Fars newsчитати
Thousands of protesters took to Hong Kong’s streets Sunday, a day after violent clashes between anti-government protesters and police, and as China’s official news agencyчитати