News Corp Suspects China Behind Cyberattack on Its System

News Corp Suspects China Behind Cyberattack on Its System

News Corp disclosed on Friday it was the target of a cyberattack that accessed data of some employees, with its...

NATO Chief Stoltenberg Appointed to Run Norway’s Central Bank

NATO Chief Stoltenberg Appointed to Run Norway’s Central Bank

Norway’s central bank, Norges Bank, announced Friday it has appointed NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to take over as its next...

NBA Star Enes Kanter Freedom: ‘What I’m Doing Is Bigger Than Basketball’ 

NBA Star Enes Kanter Freedom: ‘What I’m Doing Is Bigger Than Basketball’ 

Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter Freedom, an 11-year National Basketball Association (NBA) veteran, is known for his activism both on and...

Facebook Share Price Plummets, Leading Broad Rout of US Tech Stocks 

Facebook Share Price Plummets, Leading Broad Rout of US Tech Stocks 

The same technology companies that helped drag the U.S. stock market back from the depths of the pandemic recession in...

US Counters China’s ‘Economic Coercion’ Against Lithuania in Taiwan Dispute 

US Counters China’s ‘Economic Coercion’ Against Lithuania in Taiwan Dispute 

A senior U.S. delegation visited Lithuania this week in a show of support for the Baltic state in its growing...

US Counters China’s ‘Economic Coercion’ Against Lithuania Over Taiwan Dispute

US Counters China’s ‘Economic Coercion’ Against Lithuania Over Taiwan Dispute

A U.S. delegation visited Lithuania this week to show support for the Baltic state in its growing dispute with China...

Will Western Sanctions on Russia Work?

Will Western Sanctions on Russia Work?

With tensions between Russia and Ukraine ratcheting up, some former diplomats and Kremlin watchers are debating the effectiveness of any...

Moscow Closes German Broadcaster’s Russian Operations in Retaliatory Move

Moscow Closes German Broadcaster’s Russian Operations in Retaliatory Move

Russia said Thursday it is shutting down the operations of German broadcaster Deutsche Welle in Moscow and stripping its staff...

WHO Europe Chief Sees ‘Plausible Endgame’ to Pandemic in Europe

WHO Europe Chief Sees ‘Plausible Endgame’ to Pandemic in Europe

The World Health Organization’s European region director says that while COVID-19 cases on the continent continue to rise, he sees...

Belarus Activists Flee to US, Say Europe Not Safe

Belarus Activists Flee to US, Say Europe Not Safe

Speaking to VOA from his New York apartment, Dmitry Savchenko, 34, recalls the prosperous life he recently left behind. “In...

Belarus Activists Flee to the US, Say Europe Not Safe

Belarus Activists Flee to the US, Say Europe Not Safe

The continuing crackdown on pro-democracy activists following the 2020 presidential elections in Belarus has spurred a wave of political asylum...

Biden Sending More Troops to Europe Amid Ukraine Tension

Biden Sending More Troops to Europe Amid Ukraine Tension

President Joe Biden is sending about 2,000 troops from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Poland and Germany this week and...

US Lightning Bolt Leaps Into Record Books at 768 Kilometers Long

US Lightning Bolt Leaps Into Record Books at 768 Kilometers Long

A single lightning bolt that leapt across three U.S. states has been identified as the longest ever, the U.N. weather...

Fear and Uncertainty in Ukraine Prompt Civilians to Prepare Arms

Fear and Uncertainty in Ukraine Prompt Civilians to Prepare Arms

For the last eight years, Ukraine has lived under a permanent state of alert, with the constant threat of Russian...

Ukrainian Civilians Train to Defend Their Country

Ukrainian Civilians Train to Defend Their Country

Since 2014, when Russia illegally annexed Crimea and fomented a separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainians have lived in a...

US Senate Contemplates ‘Mother of All Sanctions’ if Russia Invades Ukraine

US Senate Contemplates ‘Mother of All Sanctions’ if Russia Invades Ukraine

A bipartisan effort in the U.S. Senate has come together to produce what the chairman of the body’s Foreign Relations...

Blinken, Lavrov Set for Talks After US-Russia Showdown at UN

Blinken, Lavrov Set for Talks After US-Russia Showdown at UN

The top diplomats from the United States and Russia are expected to speak by phone Tuesday, a day after United...

US Talks Tough as Russian Troops Mass Near Ukraine

US Talks Tough as Russian Troops Mass Near Ukraine

Will Russia invade Ukraine? While the world waits, the war of words is picking up steam, with top diplomats from...