Headlines- Iran is "desperate" to meet and discuss, according to US President Donald Trump, who also threatens to launch a "very heavy" attack on the purported new Iranian nuclear site.
- Iran's state media claimed on Tuesday that Iran's top joint military command declared that if the US hit Iranian nuclear sites, it would target the interests of the US and its allies.
- US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the United States will permit direct flights to Lebanon, more than 40 years after direct flights between the two countries were halted in 1985, during the administration of US President Ronald Reagan, after the hijacking of TWA Flight 847.
- Iranian drone strikes are being intercepted by Kuwait's air defenses, according to the army.
- On Capitol Hill, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth informed lawmakers that the United States had already spent $37.5 billion on the war in Iran.
Category: Video Report
SU Future City Water
Roughly 20 million people in Pakistan’s most populous city, Karachi, face water shortages on a regular basis. That is a key issue addressed by a Houston-based team at the Future City National Finals in Washington. Students on the team attend the Al-Hadi School of Accelerative Learning in the Houston area and most have relatives from Karachi
COVID South Korea Drive Thru Clinic
South Korea has experienced a massive spike in confirmed coronavirus infections over the past week. One of the reasons the numbers have jumped so quickly: South Korea is making it very easy for people to get coronavirus tests. As of Friday, the country had tested about 80,000 people. Many are getting tested at specially created drive-thru clinics
Thousands Rally In Moscow To Mark...
Thousands of people have marched in Moscow to mark the anniversary of the killing of Boris Nemtsov, a vocal Kremlin critic and former deputy prime minister who was gunned down five years ago near the Kremlin. Smaller events took place in St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and other Russian cities
NASA Prepares to Send New Rover...
NASA is preparing to send a new rover to Mars for a human exploration mission of the Red Planet
COVID – US Korean Church
At Korean American churches, worshippers are praying hard as they begin this year’s Lenten season for their friends and family in South Korea, which is fighting the world’s 2nd worst coronavirus outbreak
Idlib Refugees
The Russian-backed Syrian government push to capture the Idlib province in northwest Syria has worsened the humanitarian situation as nearly 1 million civilians have been forced to flee eastward to safer locations. VOA’s Zana Omer filed this report from Manbij, Syria
Zimbabwe Victoria Falls Climate Change
After a long and unsettling dry spell, the water at Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls is flowing again, fed by rains upstream in Angola and Namibia, But as Columbus Mavhunga reports from Victoria Falls, experts and environmentalists say global warming is having a huge impact across Africa, and the continent needs to take immediate action to help reverse the trend
Lebanon Brain Drain
As Lebanon’s economy grinds to a halt and its political system comes under increasing pressure from the streets, young people are leaving the country in droves. Instability and a lack of opportunity are creating an exodus of Lebanon’s best and brightest as they reluctantly seek sanctuary elsewhere
Kazakh Police Detain 20 After Funeral...
The funeral has taken place of Kazakh civil rights activist Dulat Aghadil, who recently died in police custody. Some 1,000 people gathered in driving snow for the ceremony in Aghadil’s native village of Talapker. Later, police in Nur-Sultan detained around 20 activists who had gone from the funeral to a demonstration in the capital to demand an independent investigation into Aghadil’s death
Afghanistan: U.S.-Taliban Deal
After 19 years of a grueling conflict that has claimed the lives of more than one-hundred thousand people, the war in Afghanistan may finally be coming to an end. So far, all sides seem to be respecting an agreement to reduce violence, a partial truce that came into effect last Saturday