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This month, the US intelligence community is likely to give President Joe Biden a report evaluating the two primary ideas about COVID-19’s origins. The virus was unintentionally released from a lab, according to one theory, and it emerged from human interaction with an infected animal, according to the other
As a protest against the Taliban’s attacks on some Afghan cities, people in Afghanistan chanted “Allahu Akbar,” which means “God is Great.” This report narrated by Roshan Noorzai was filed by VOA’s Sayed Hasib Maududi
The World Food Programme (WFP) issued a warning on Friday that it is facing a 70% funding shortage in Myanmar, where millions of people are facing rising food insecurity.
As crime rates in Kenya shot up during the pandemic, a Kenyan developer who was a crime victim himself created a mobile application to help people alert police about emergencies. The application has been so successful that Kenya’s police force has adopted it
Little progress has been made in the probe a year after the Devastating explosion in Beirut’s port, and no one has been held accountable. The blast has become a symbol of both defeat and resistance in Lebanon, which is wracked by various problems
Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea Football Club in England, and Russia’s state-owned oil major Rosneft have both filed defamation lawsuits against the author of a book about President Vladimir Putin’s rise to power. Activists claim the lawsuit jeopardises press freedom
Some Afghans who worked on US-funded programes and projects in Afghanistan are praising the US State Department’s Priority 2 programme, which allows specific Afghans and their families to enter the US Refugee Admissions Program. Other Afghans, though, are concerned that the scheme may hasten the country’s brain drain
The withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan is nearing completion. According to experts,Afghan women and children face a bleak future
Estonia, France, Ireland, Norway, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Albania, all members of the United Nations Security Council, brief media on the situation in Georgia
Officials in Lithuania say the number of illegal migrants arriving from Belarus has hit a new high, with around 300 detentions reported in just one day. The majority of the inmates are Iraqis who appear to have crossed the border with relative ease via Belarus. Belarus is allowing migrants to travel as a “provocation” toward the EU, according to Lithuanian and EU officials, in revenge for Minsk’s sanctions