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..
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Reports: Nicaragua Government Cracks Down on...
At least 420 violations against press freedoms in the country. That is according to the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation
Gun Violence and Students
Why do shooters target students and young people, and does it give international students and their families pause before applying to U.S. schools? VOA NEWS
Art Thrives Among Hunters, Fishers in...
The small town of Utqiagvik, Alaska, is the northernmost town in the United States. Entertainment is scarce and so is the list of jobs. A lot of locals still hunt and fish, and there is room for art here as well. As Natasha Mozgovaya reports, indigenous carvers have been creating beautiful figurines, intricate miniature …
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A Women-Only Village in Northern Syria...
A new village has been built specifically for women in northern Syria’s Rojava region. The name of the village is Jinwar, which means a place for women in Kurdish. It has 30 identical houses, each of which is made from red clay. VOA’s Zana Omer visited the village and filed this report, narrated by Bezhan …
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Ghosts and Gold in the Wild...
People now go to experience the old Wild West complete with staged gunfights
South Africa Cannabis Ruling Leads to...
Marijuana activists say this could just be the beginning and that the famous plant could do much more for the national economy
Somalia Struggles to Treat PTSD from...
Somalia’s 30 years of chronic conflict have left an estimated 1 in 3 people affected by mental health issues, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Inside the FedEx Hub: How Packages...
The FedEx superhub in Memphis Tennessee works around the clock to get parcels delivered to customers and hopefully – on time
Troops at the US Border are...
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis travels to the U.S.-Mexico border Wednesday to visit some of the thousands of troops that have been called up to assist in security operations there
Spain Bucks Political Trend Amid African...
Madrid has taken a softer line on migration than many other European countries, urging the European Union to increase search and rescue capabilities at sea