Headlines- Sheik Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, will visit Tehran on Thursday and meet with several Iranian officials to discuss ways to de-escalate tensions.
- According to a notice on a Treasury Department website, the US has imposed sanctions on the Palestine Action group and designated it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
- A huge flash flood in Nepal ravaged villages, killing at least 160 people and leaving hundreds more missing for.
- At least one person was killed and over a dozen people were injured on Wednesday when a person crashed a car into a crowd in the northwest French city of Caen.
- Wildfires that sweft through several Algerian provinces claimed the lives of twelve people..
Category: Special Video Report
Chinese Company Accused Of Damaging Montenegrin...
Montenegrin residents have launched a lawsuit against a Chinese construction company, claiming their lands have been devastated by the construction of a new highway. UNESCO also expressed concern over “severe impacts” to the Tara River
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After falling in love with flying her drone, a young videographer searched for a community of other female drone flyers—but couldn’t find one….South Africa is home to one of the world’s top rugby’s teams, the Springboks. It’s also home to Africa’s only national league of wheelchair rugby, the only full-contact Paralympic sport
The Sound Of Survival: Music Of...
How Kyrgyzstan’s ethnic Luli minority preserves its culture through music
It’s Hard To Be A Girl...
Afghan children must have IDs to go to school. And each family must have a permanent residence in order to get their IDs. Many members of the Jogi minority, a formerly nomadic people, have neither, and are unable to vote, own land, or attend school
Albuquerque Balloon Festival Draws Massive Crowds
Every October, for the past 48 years, hot air balloons have been filling the skies over Albuquerque, New Mexico, giving spectators both on and off the ground a visual feast of rare beauty. VOA’s Julie Taboh visited the southwestern state’s largest city to see how a modest launch of 13 balloons almost five decades ago has evolved into the largest ballooning event in the world
Kyrgyz Walnuts, The Forbidden Fruit
Arslanbob is an ancient walnut forest on the slopes of the Tian Shan mountains in southern Kyrgyzstan. Every fall, the locals, mostly ethnic Uzbeks, harvest walnuts for sale at Central Asia’s biggest walnut market
Overfishing In Lake Malawi Creates Scarcity,...
Overfishing in Lake Malawi has caused scarcity of fish in Malawi, forcing many fishermen to look for other ways to make a living, such as raising livestock. The scarcity has also resulted in increases in the price of fish
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Cameroon’s port city of Douala, most used cooking oil from hotels and restaurants was once dumped down the drain, where it fouled up plumbing systems and caused pollution…Creating human organs from a 3D printer may sound like science fiction, but researchers are working on making that a reality. Engineers in one lab at Rice University are 3D printing complex vascular networks found in human tissue
Hong Kong Becoming Conflict Zone for...
In Hong Kong, journalists covering the increasingly violent pro-democracy demonstrations have been injured by police action and sometimes assaulted by protesters
Ukrainian Campaigns For Migrants’ Rights In...
Myroslava Keryk was born and raised in Ukraine, but now lives in Warsaw and is running in Poland’s parliamentary election on October 13 promising to represent the interests of all migrants, not just those from Ukraine. Although estimates vary, there are up to 2 million Ukrainians living and working in the country