Obama to Encourage Information Sharing on Cybersecurity Threats

President Barack Obama plans to sign an executive order Friday aimed at encouraging companies and organizations to share more information ab...

Yemeni Rebels Preach Unity But Stifle Opposition

After months of turmoil and the president's resignation last month, Yemen appears to be collapsing as its various population groups cann...

Thousands Gather To Honor Three Muslims Killed In North Carolina

Thousands of mourners attended Thursday's funeral prayers for three young Muslims killed this week in North Carolina. Police have arrest...

'Leviathan,' an Oscar Favorite, Hits Nerve in Russia

Andrey Zvyagintsev, director of the Oscar-nominated, Kremlin-rankling corruption drama "Leviathan," paused, looked at his producer...

News Organizations Promote Safety Guidelines for Freelancers

More than two dozen news organizations and advocacy groups have agreed to back international safety standards for freelancers in the wake of...

Scientists Seek Better Understanding of Threats Faced by Sharks

With many shark species endangered or threatened as a result of pollution and other problems, scientists are getting a shark’s-eye view of t...

Late Argentine Prosecutor's Ex-Wife: 'Stop Politicizing' Case

The investigation into the death of an Argentine prosecutor who leveled criminal charges against the president has become too politicized an...

Peru to Review Pluspetrol's Natural Gas Contract After Deadly Protests

Peru will evaluate a natural gas contract it signed with Pluspetrol in 2005 and is asking the Argentine company to leave a restive Amazonian...

Kurds Seek Greater Help, Recognition in Fight Against IS

Kurdish fighters in Iraq and Syria have been a key component in the international campaign against the Islamic State group. But their involv...

EU Chief: Eurozone Needs Radical Change

The eurozone needs fundamental changes to the way it is run or faces endemic unemployment and the trap of low economic growth for years to c...

Hawaii Scientists Study Threatened Shark Species

Many shark species are endangered or threatened, the result of fishing, climate change and ocean pollution. Mike O’Sullivan reports from Hon...

Hostile Response to Zuma Touches Off Brawl in S. African Assembly

South Africa's parliament descended into chaos Thursday as opposition lawmakers were removed by force after disrupting Jacob Zuma's ...

Venezuelan Soldiers, Students Face Off at Anti-Maduro Rallies

Venezuelan troops blocked students marching against President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday as pro-government supporters also rallied on the an...

Ukraine Refugees Not Ready to Return Home Despite Cease-fire Agreement

As a renewed cease-fire deal is signed in Minsk, fighting between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels in the east continues and a mill...

Greece, Lenders to Discuss Bailout Provisions

Greece and its international creditors agreed Thursday to launch technical discussions on the debt-ridden country's demand to cut its ma...

China Security Buildup Seen in Tibetan Video

Video smuggled out of a restless Tibetan area of China shows what appears to be dozens of security force vehicles moving into the town just ...

US Slams Sudan for Blocking Darfur Mass Rape Investigation

The United States on Thursday sharply criticized Sudan for obstructing a United Nations investigation into what Washington's U.N. envoy ...

Study: US Smoking Deaths May Be Higher Than Previously Thought

Nearly a half million Americans die every year from diseases directly attributable to cigarette smoking, such as lung cancer and heart disea...

Syrians in Turkey Disregard Anti-IS Offensive, Try to Move On

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that Kurdish fighters, after successfully driving Islamic State militants from...

Worms Get Ready to Fly in Space

Humans are well-adapted to life on Earth. But when we move into space it's a different story. Low or zero gravity changes how the blood ...

Pakistani Students Adjust to Heightened Security

Schools in Pakistan have heightened their security in the face of increased threats of a terrorist attack. VOA’s Ayesha Tanzeem takes a look...

US Senate Approves Ashton Carter as New Pentagon Chief

The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to confirm Ashton Carter as President Barack Obama's next secretary of defense. Carter, 60, served as ...

Afghanistan Wants Troop Withdrawal Adjustment, Says US Commander

The commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan says President Ashraf Ghani has requested greater flexibility in the final drawdown of America’s...

Egypt Releases Al Jazeera Journalists Ahead of Retrial

An Egyptian court released two Al Jazeera journalists Thursday after adjourning their retrial on charges of supporting the Muslim Brotherhoo...

February 12, 2015

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Former Guantanamo Inmate Asks Argentina to Accept Prisoners

A former inmate of the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay traveled from his new home in Uruguay to neighboring Argentina in recent days to lobby ...

US Senators Move to Lift Cuba Trade Embargo

A group of Democratic and Republican U.S. senators introduced a bill on Thursday seeking to lift the half-century-old trade embargo against ...

Northern Kenya Oil Deposits Fuel Violent Inter-Communal Conflicts

More than two years after Kenya struck oil for the first time in its northern-most county, Turkana, the two ethnic groups that live on eithe...

Cease-fire Reached for East Ukraine

A cease-fire is to take effect in battle-scarred eastern Ukraine Saturday night, after 16 hours of all-night talks involving the leaders of ...

Democracy Under Way, Tunisia Turns to Tough Economic Agenda

Just two days after confidently promising economic reforms to match Tunisia's transition to democracy, new Prime Minister Habib Essid wa...

African Youths Call for More Support

Youth ministers from the Commonwealth of Nations -- the former British Commonwealth -- have ended a meeting in Cameroon on how to prevent yo...

US Farmers Support End to Cuba Embargo

A Pew Research poll conducted in January shows that more than 60 percent of Americans support President Obama’s decision in December to esta...

US Unveils Anti-Poaching Strategy

The U.S. government has unveiled its strategy to fight the illegal wildlife trade. President Obama says wildlife trafficking undermines secu...

Fashion Week Arrives in New York, Bringing Designers, Fans, Money

New York's biannual Fashion Week opens on Thursday bringing hundreds of millions of dollars to the city and outweighing the economic ben...

Red Cross Concerned About Ebola Worker Attacks in Guinea

The Red Cross says its Ebola workers in Guinea are being attacked an average of 10 times per month, endangering efforts to stop the spread o...

Satellite Launched to Monitor Space Weather

A new satellite is on a 1.5 million kilometer, 110-day journey toward the sun. Once it reaches its orbit, DSCOVR (PRON: Discover) - the Deep...

Killings of US Muslim Students Attract Worldwide Grief, Outrage

The slayings of three Muslim students in the North Carolina university town of Chapel Hill which sparked outrage amongst Muslims worldwide. ...

Yemen on Brink of Civil War says UN Envoy

The United Nations' special envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar, has warned that the country is on the brink of civil war and accused all side...

Greek PM Tsipras in Brussels as Clock Ticks on EU Bailout

Greece's radical new prime minister Alexis Tsipras was in Brussels on Thursday to lay out his case for more financial help to fellow EU ...

IMF Agrees to $17.5 Billion Bailout for Ukraine

The International Monetary Fund has agreed on a new $17.5 billion bailout deal for Ukraine to help stabilize the country's finances. The...

Eastern Ukraine Cease-fire Deal Reached

After a marathon peace-talk session in Minski, Belarus, leaders said a cease-fire deal had been reached in eastern Ukraine between the gover...

Montana Man Convicted of Killing German Teen to be Sentenced

A Montana homeowner convicted of deliberate homicide last year for fatally shooting an unarmed teenage German exchange student who entered t...