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Reports of ethnic cleansing and mass detention of Tigrayans have surfaced throughout Ethiopia’s civil war, particularly in the western Tigray region, where authorities have prevented rights groups and media from entering. VOA was granted rare but restricted access to the region, including several alleged detention and mass grave sites
Bayraktar the police dog just outside Ukranian capital Kyiv,has become famous for helping to keep safe the people he loves, just outside of Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken faced questions from student journalists on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, including why the US deals with countries like Saudi Arabia, which is accused of killing journalists, while condemning others like Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela for threatening press freedom
Families in Tijuana, Mexico, gather year after year to search for missing loved ones. Fearing the worst, people gather with rods, shovels, and other tools to search for the bodies of those who were in the region and were never seen or heard from again
Ukraine is now one of the world’s most heavily mined countries, according to the United Nations. Pyrotechnicians are currently disarming hundreds of mines per day in territory that Russia no longer controls
Ankara has demanded that Sweden hand up or censor journalists, lawmakers, and activists who support Kurdish “terrorists” in exchange for Turkey agreeing to Sweden’s NATO membership
Afghan and Pakistani artists protested outside the press club in Peshawar, Pakistan, against the Taliban’s crackdown on Afghan artists who fled the country after the Taliban took power
In the early days of the invasion, the Russians took Yahidne, a Ukrainian village. Residents who endured the occupation began narrating their story when they were driven out in late March
When Matthew Parker, a 22-year veteran of the United States Army, heard that Russian forces had invaded Ukraine, he remember a Ukrainian American soldier who had served beside him with US forces in Iraq and decided to help Ukrainians defend their homeland. Parker is among tens of thousands of Americans who have joined in Ukraine’s new multinational legion, and he is now helping in the training of Ukrainian soldiers
With hundreds of thousands of displaced Ukrainians living in and around Lviv, local football (soccer) academies are opening their doors to refugee children to help them divert their attention away from the war