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- The Vatican said on Tuesday that Pope Leo XIV had surgery to remove the lower lobe of his right lung after receiving a lung cancer diagnosis.
- A Pennsylvania woman is accused of fatally stabbing her husband and 3-year-old son at a family resort in the Poconos before attempting suicide.
- In support of the protesting high school students, tens of thousands of people gathered throughout France on Tuesday.
Tag: Alaska
Woman Escapes Bear Attack in Alaska
On September 21 afternoon, a bear attacked a women who was trekking near Haines, Alaska.The woman sustained non-life-threatening injuries, according to authorities.
In Isolated Alaskan Waters, Teen Survives...
Before a Coast Guard aircraft discovered him on September 7 afternoon, a 15-year-old teen clung to the hull of a capsized fishing trawler in the icy waters off Alaska for over two days.
Death on North America’s Highest Peak...
Ninety-six climbers died between 1903 and 2006 on the Alaskan mountain formerly known as Mount McKinley, according to a 2008 study by researchers from the University of Utah who noted that “climbers from Asia had the highest odds of dying.”
The Alaskan Community:Thriving Sustainable
Welcome to Ionia, a community in Kasilof, Alaska, where residents strive to live a cooperative and sustainable life. As she travels with the community to harvest a year’s worth of seaweed—a staple of their diet—VOA’s Gabrielle Weiss highlights the unity and purpose that bind them.
World Eskimo Indian Olympics Opens
Native athletes met in Fairbanks, Alaska, two days before the Tokyo Olympics to compete in the 60th World Eskimo-Indian Olympics
Vaccinating in a Remote Village
We travel to the remote village of Seldovia, Alaska, as the COVID vaccine rollout continues
South African Medics to Row Northwest...
Two South African medics are swapping their medical gear for oars as they train for a risky 4,000-kilometer (2,500-mile) journey by rowboat through the Arctic Northwest Passage
Bush Pilot
Little Diomede is a remote island in Alaska with limited resources for the 80 natives who live there. They give their “grocery list” to a bush pilot who brings them what they need from other locations in Alaska
Life has Changed Little on a...
Four-fifths of the state’s territory can only be reached by air, and a lot of small towns would have been completely isolated had it not been for small planes
Carving for Alaska
Watch native citizens from Alaska perform different types of carving to represent Arctic voices