President Obama has met and shaken hands with Cuban leader Raul Castro for the first time since announcing his intention last December to no...
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Breakthrough Movie Reveals Wondrous Underwater World
Like his father, world-renowned undersea explorer and filmmaker Jacques Cousteau, Jean-Michel Cousteau has spent a lifetime exploring the oc...
Suu Kyi's Political Skills Tested in Pre-election Showdown
With an historic general election just seven months away, Myanmar opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is locked in a high-...
Clinton Must Show She Remains Relevant, Analyst Says
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, expected to announce her candidacy for the presidency in 2016 on Sunday, comes to the race a...
Breakthrough Film Shows Wondrous Underwater World
Like his father, the world-renowned Jacques Cousteau, Jean-Michel Cousteau has spent a lifetime exploring the oceans. Equipped with an IMAX ...
Entrepreneurs Find New Ways to Address Housing Shortages
Housing shortages affect both developed and developing countries, so entrepreneurs are trying to find new ways to solve the problem. They...
Classes Resume in War-Torn Kobani
With Syria in its fifth year of conflict, most norms of prewar life are gone. Many schools, clinics and other social services have long been...
Yemen War: Players and Goals
Yemen's conflict between Houthi rebels and the internationally recognized government in Sana'a has hurled the country into chaos, bu...
Islamic State Attacks Iraqi Provincial Capital
Islamic State militants attacked the capital of Iraq's vast Anbar province on multiple fronts on Friday, seizing two areas on the city o...
Kenya Faces Battle to Win Over Muslims
Days after Islamists killed 148 people at Garissa University College, Kenya's president held out an olive branch to Muslims and urged th...
US Will Triple Military Aid to Tunisia
The United States will increase military aid to Tunisia threefold this year and help train its troops, a senior U.S official said Friday, we...
US Scientist Works to Prevent Disease in Conflict Zones
As bad as things are for people in conflict zones of the Middle East and northern Africa, a U.S. health expert says the breakdown in health ...
Entrepreneurs Find New Ways to Solve Housing Shortages
Housing shortages affect both developed and developing countries, so entrepreneurs are trying to find new ways to solve the problem. Ideas r...
Analysts: Iran Deal Offers Chance to Rehabilitate Foreign Relations
The tentative framework over Iran’s nuclear program agreed to this month is in renewed doubt over the timing of when Western sanctions shoul...
China Infrastructure Bank - World Bank Rival or Partner?
Iran has just joined 34 other countries to become the newest member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. The new development bank, l...
The Correspondents
The Correspondents is VOA’s weekly discussion of the world’s top stories, as seen through the eyes of our dedicated reporters in the US and ...
Forty Haitian Migrants Feared Dead in Shipwreck off North Coast
As many as 40 Haitian migrants were feared dead after their ship bound for the Turks and Caicos Islands capsized in the Caribbean off Haiti...
Genetic Study Finds Severe Inbreeding in Endangered Mountain Gorillas
The most extensive genetic analysis of mountain gorillas ever conducted has found the critically endangered apes burdened with severe inbree...
April 10, 2015
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Candidates Vie for Control of Nigeria's Oil Heartland
Nigeria is Africa’s largest producer of oil. In the heartland of the country’s oil production is Rivers State. On Saturday, voters will choo...
Carter Talks Defense Aid, Not Missile Defense, With Korean Counterpart
U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter is in South Korea for the second leg of his trip visiting U.S. allies in the Asia-Pacific region. He sa...
Top 5 Songs for Week Ending April 11
We're counting down the 5 most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week ending April 11, 2015. Winter has fled the Wash...
Somali Remittances Suspension Raise Concerns
Fifteen aid agencies are expressing concern over Kenya suspending the licenses of Money Remittance Providers or MRPs. Kenya took the action ...
DRC Red Cross Denies Involvement in Mass Burial
The Red Cross in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is denying that it handed over some of the bodies buried in a mass grave near Kinsha...
In China, Knock-off Apple Watches Have Their Own Fans
Lining the glass display cases of Shenzhen's giant tech malls, knock-off versions of Apple Inc's smartwatch were on sale at many sta...
Reports: Hillary Clinton to Announce Presidential Bid Sunday
U.S. media reports say Hillary Clinton will formally annonce Sunday her intention to run for president in the 2016 election. Clinton is then...
Obama Administration Launches Cuba Charm Offensive
A photo of the former adversaries shows U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shaking hands with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, slight...
Sudan Summons EU Envoy Over Election Remarks
Sudan's Foreign Ministry said on Friday it had summoned the European Union's representative in Khartoum over critical EU remarks abo...
Ukraine Military, Rebels Accuse Each Other of Increased Attacks
Ukraine's military and pro-Russian rebels accused each other on Friday of intensifying attacks in separatist eastern territories despite...
Pakistan Frees Suspected Mumbai Attack Mastermind
A Pakistani court has freed the alleged mastermind of the 2008 attacks on Mumbai that killed 166 people. Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, a senior com...
No Breakthrough at Russia-Mediated Syrian Peace Talks
Members of the Syrian government and some opposition groups concluded talks Friday in Russia with no signs of progress on how to end the fou...
Boko Haram Resorts to Kidnappings
Cameroon says Boko Haram has resorted to kidnapping people in hard to access areas near the border with Nigeria. The Central African state h...
Carter: No Plans Yet to Deploy Advanced Missile System in S. Korea
Visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, who arrived in South Korea Thursday, says the U.S. military is preparing to deploy new weapon...
China's White Elephant Projects Emerge
When officials reopened the airport on the sparsely populated Dachangshan island off China's north-east coast after a $6 million refurbi...
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