united nations — Ukraine, joined Friday by more than 55 countries at the United Nations, condemned Russia’s attempts to organize elections on occupied Ukrainian land, saying they were not valid.…
tel aviv, israel — China conducted joint military drills this week with Russia and Iran in the Gulf of Oman, a critical water conduit near the entry to the Persian…
The regional governor in the southern Ukraine port city of Odesa reports a Russian missile attack Friday killed 14 people and injured 46 others. In a post complete with pictures…
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s executive arm Friday proposed sacrificing even more climate and environmental measures in the bloc’s latest set of concessions to farmers apparently bent on continuing disruptive…
BERLIN — Ukraine’s backers will use windfall profits on frozen Russian assets to finance arms purchases for Kyiv, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said following a meeting with his French and…
GENEVA — U.N. investigators have accused Russian authorities of disregarding basic human rights principles and causing untold suffering to Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians by subjecting them to appalling…
Once a successful lawyer, Olha Bihar is now a military commander in Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces. Bihar – who goes by the call sign Witch – oversees a mortar battery.…
Editor’s note: Here is a look at immigration-related news around the U.S. this week. Questions? Tips? Comments? Email the VOA immigration team: ImmigrationUnit@voanews.com. Advocates call on Congress to avert end…
Munich — In a nondescript building in southwestern Munich, Uyghur children gather every Saturday to do something that is banned in China: learn their native language. On a recent morning,…
Voters headed to the polls in Russia on Friday for a three-day presidential election that is all but certain to extend President Vladimir Putin’s rule by six more years after…
Before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022, Tavrisky Christian Institute (TCI) in Antonivka, a town on the bank of the Dnipro River in the Kherson region,…
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store announced on Thursday plans to raise the nation’s defense spending this year to equal 2% of its GDP. Norway was initially set to meet…
Russian drones and missiles hit communications infrastructure in northeastern Ukraine on Thursday, in what appeared to be an effort to block access to information, officials in Kyiv said. The assault…
Washington — The husband and two daughters of an American journalist jailed in Russia are in Washington this week to call on the U.S. government to do more to help…
Russia has rebranded its Wagner paramilitary group as an “expeditionary corps” now controlled by Moscow’s military intelligence arm, and the force is offering a “regime survival package” to autocratic regimes…
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