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The mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, spoke with VOA about the Ukrainian capital as the war with Russia enters its second year. Tatiana Vorozhko has this story.
The cease-fire in Sudan was extended for another 72 hours on Thursday, but it’s still unclear whether the country will soon experience lasting peace.
South African snake experts argue that the energy crisis is partly to blame for the sub-Saharan African region’s antivenom shortage, which has resulted in at least three deaths over the past three weeks. South Africa provides antivenom to the region, but frequent power cuts have made it more difficult to preserve the refrigerated supplies.
This month, Fox News agreed to pay a near-record $787.5 million settlement to settle a widely watched lawsuit over how the network reported on former President Donald Trump’s false allegations of election rigging in 2020. This avoided a trial.
During the first nine months of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 14,000 Ukrainian companies were reportedly started in neighboring Poland.Having overcome the odds of starting a business abroad, those Ukrainian entrepreneurs are now succeeding and making big and small contributions to their country’s war efforts.
In response to petitions filed by several members of the LGBTQ community, India’s Supreme Court is holding landmark hearings on the legalisation of same-sex marriage.
Some of the scenarios that resulted in shootings this month in the United States involve showing up at the wrong front door, driving the wrong driveway, and retrieving a basketball from an angry neighbor’s yard. Gun control advocates say the shootings show the need for stricter gun ownership restrictions in the US.
After a court decided against the town’s use of an independent solar electricity producer instead of the country’s utility, Eskom, the little town of Frankfort, South Africa, would experience fresh power outages.
A New York transplant surgeon plans his third trip to Ukraine, where he has been working with doctors to help patients affected by Russia’s war with that country. Dr. Robert Montgomery, the surgeon, is also working to raise money for the purchase of medical equipment for a hospital in Lviv.
The violence between rival military forces has trapped civilians in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.Narrated by Salem Solomon,Sidahmed Ibraheem has this report from Khartoum.