Headlines- Hezbollah claims that on Thursday, its fighters attacked Israeli forces many times within Lebanese territory.
- A woman killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the town of Harouf in the southern Lebanon district of Nabatieh.
- FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced on Thursday that Iran will participate in the United States during the 2026 World Cup.
- Iran is "dying to make a deal," according to US President Donald Trump, who stated in the Oval Office, "hopefully it can be worked out very soon."
- By a vote of 50-47 on Thursday, the US Senate failed to move forward with an Iran War Powers Resolution for the sixth time.
- The United Kingdom raised its national danger level from "substantial" to "severe" on Thursday in response to a stabbing incident that injured two Jewish men in Golders Green, a northwest London neighborhood, the day before.
Year: 2019
Cameroon’s Palm Tree Worms: Forest Food...
Cameroon’s forest tribes have long depended on insects to supplement their diets. The palm weevil grub, a fat worm found in palm trees, is such a popular source of protein that it has squirmed from the forest into the villages and even urban restaurants
Uighur Activists Lobby for US Bill...
Rights groups say detainees in the camps face death, torture and various abuses such as being forced to renounce Islam and consume pork and alcohol. The groups repeatedly criticize the international community for not doing enough to hold Chinese authorities accountable.
Rights Groups Worried About Crackdown Targeting...
Rights organizations in Zimbabwe are concerned about what they say is a crackdown against opposition activists by the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa. They cite the recent arrest of seven activists who were detained when they returned home from a conference in the Maldives
Press Briefing by Foreign Ministers of...
Néstor Popolizio Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru, speaks during the press conference on Venezuela. At right is Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, and at left is Roberto Ampuero, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile on 3 June at United Nations
UN Update on Syria
United Nations “remains deeply alarmed” by the ongoing fighting in northwestern Syria which left “at least 160 civilians dead, hundreds of thousands of people displaced, and put three million people in the crossfire,” a spokesperson for the organization said on Monday (3 Jun)
Amid the Smoke and Tears of...
The allies’ liberation of France in World War Two began with fierce battles on the shores of Normandy. Amid the blood, smoke, and tears, there were stories of love, like the one of Francine Nelson. She met the man of her dreams, an American GI, as the allies liberated Paris. She married him
Modi Reaches Out to Minorities but...
The nervousness is inevitable: there was a spate of attacks on members of the community by cow vigilantes during Modi’s first term. At least 35 were killed and many were targeted on suspicion of transporting cows for slaughter or carrying and eating beef
Longtime Kenya Coffee Farmers Eye New...
Kenya is the fifth largest coffee producing country in Africa, but this may change. Coffee farmers in the East African nation are turning to other crops as coffee production is affected by drought and low prices in the international market. For VOA, Mohammed Yusuf reports from Kiambu, Kenya
News of the World: This Weekend
Tens of thousands of believers attended an open-air mass led by Pope Francis at the Sumuleu Ciuc shrine on June 1.Three consecutive explosions shook the same area of the Afghan capital, Kabul, early in the morning of June 2. Thousands marched in Belgrade on June 1 to protest against the Serbian government, in rallies that have taken place every Saturday since December