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Muslim Americans make up only about 1% of the U.S. population. As VOA’s Faiza Bukhari reports, Muslim communities are mobilizing to cast their ballots for the Nov. 3 presidential election
Women’s rights activists have called a national strike and thousands of people have joined demonstrations to protest a decision by Poland’s Constitutional Court to ban nearly all abortions
Ivory Coast’s 2010 election violence killed 3,000 people and sent thousands more fleeing into Ghana. Now, many of those refugees fear the Ivorian election this Saturday could spark new unrest
Young girls in Nigeria’s north are struggling to remain in school during the COVID-19 pandemic and aid group say many face the risk of child marriage
India’s months long COVID-19 shutdown of schools has inspired new ways to teach students without access to online classes because they don’t have smart phones, computers or even internet connectivity
Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other shelling civilian targets on October 28 and breaking a U.S.-brokered truce
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a cycling club faces an uphill struggle: getting the financial support to compete, including in pan-African races
A recent surge in blasphemy cases against has raised concerns among human rights groups. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has reported more than 40 cases of blasphemy in Pakistan in the month of August alone
Europe is once again an epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic and Spain – under a state of emergency – has gone into another lockdown as protests continue
From 2015 to the end of 2019, the average annual net income of poor Tibetans had climbed from 1,499 yuan (U.S. $223) to 9,328 yuan (U.S. $1,376), and anti-poverty drives have now shifted their focus from eradicating absolute poverty to consolidating the gains already made