Journalists Demand Assange be Released from UK Jail

Journalists Demand Assange be Released from UK Jail

An international coalition of journalists, editors and publishers demanded Wednesday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be immediately released from a...

VOA Interview: John Sullivan, US Ambassador to Russia

VOA Interview: John Sullivan, US Ambassador to Russia

U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a “massive act of aggression,” was a major topic...

Swimmer Wins Bronze Medal While Father Fights in Ukraine

Swimmer Wins Bronze Medal While Father Fights in Ukraine

Elite swimmer Mykhailo Romanchuk doesn’t know if his father was able to see him winning a medal for Ukraine at...

Ukraine City is Focus of Intense Fighting: ‘Everything is Engulfed in Fire’

Ukraine City is Focus of Intense Fighting: ‘Everything is Engulfed in Fire’

Ukraine reported heavy strikes Tuesday in the Sievierodonetsk region as Russian forces push to gain full control of the eastern...

Donbas Native Writes War Songs From Trenches

Donbas Native Writes War Songs From Trenches

Pavlo Vyshebaba joined the military on the first day of the Russian invasion, having no combat experience at all. Then...

Macron Holds Postelection Talks with French Party Leaders 

Macron Holds Postelection Talks with French Party Leaders 

President Emmanuel Macron held talks Tuesday with France’s main party leaders in a bid to show he is open to...

Elon Musk’s $44 Billion Twitter Deal Gets Board Endorsement

Elon Musk’s $44 Billion Twitter Deal Gets Board Endorsement

Twitter’s board has recommended unanimously that shareholders approve the proposed $44 billion sale of the company to billionaire and Tesla...

Africa Won’t Give Ukraine What It’s Asking For, Analysts Say

Africa Won’t Give Ukraine What It’s Asking For, Analysts Say

Analysts say the African Union (AU) is unlikely to offer Ukraine much support against Russia despite a passionate address Monday...

Investors Coping With Cryptocurrency Plunge 

Investors Coping With Cryptocurrency Plunge 

“I’m in a cryptocurrency chat group at work,” software engineer Adam Hickey of San Diego, California told VOA. Over the...

Russia Protests Transit Block to Kaliningrad

Russia Protests Transit Block to Kaliningrad

Russia has summoned the European Union’s envoy to Moscow to “strongly” protest new restrictions on goods shipments to its Kaliningrad...

Australia Urged to Intervene in Long-Running Wikileaks Extradition Case

Australia Urged to Intervene in Long-Running Wikileaks Extradition Case

Lawyers for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange are urging the Australian government to do more to gain the release of the...

Glencore UK Subsidiary Pleads Guilty to Bribery in Africa 

Glencore UK Subsidiary Pleads Guilty to Bribery in Africa 

A British subsidiary of mining and trading giant Glencore on Tuesday formally pleaded guilty to seven counts of bribery in...

Ukraine Reports Heavy Fighting in Sievierodonetsk 

Ukraine Reports Heavy Fighting in Sievierodonetsk 

Ukraine reported heavy strikes Tuesday in the Sievierodonetsk region as Russian forces push to gain full control of the eastern...

British Rail Workers Go on Strike

British Rail Workers Go on Strike

British rail workers launched their biggest strike in decades on Tuesday.  Last-minute talks to avoid the stoppage failed Monday, with...

Nobel Prize Auction Nets $103.5 Million for Displaced Ukrainian Children

Nobel Prize Auction Nets $103.5 Million for Displaced Ukrainian Children

Dmitry Muratov, editor of one of Russia’s last independent newspapers, auctioned off his 2021 Nobel Peace Prize medal on Monday,...

Two Detained Americans Endangered Russian Servicemen, Kremlin Says

Two Detained Americans Endangered Russian Servicemen, Kremlin Says

Two Americans detained in Ukraine while fighting on the Ukrainian side of the war were mercenaries who endangered the lives...

In Poland and Far From Family, Woman Returns to Ukraine

In Poland and Far From Family, Woman Returns to Ukraine

According to United Nations estimates, since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, some 2.5 million Ukrainians have crossed the Polish...

Legislative Setback Leaves Difficult Path Forward for France’s Macron  

Legislative Setback Leaves Difficult Path Forward for France’s Macron  

Two months after French President Emmanuel Macron won reelection, his second term is now threatened with gridlock and a possible...

Belgium Returns Lumumba’s Remains to Family

Belgium Returns Lumumba’s Remains to Family

The tooth of assassinated Patrice Lumumba, Congo’s first democratically elected leader, is scheduled to be handed over to his family...

Britain Set for Biggest Rail Strike in Decades

Britain Set for Biggest Rail Strike in Decades

Britain’s railway network this week faces its biggest strike action in more than three decades in a row over pay...

Russian Journalist Sells Nobel Prize for Ukrainian Children 

Russian Journalist Sells Nobel Prize for Ukrainian Children 

What’s the price of peace?  That question could be partially answered Monday night when Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov auctions off...

Zelenskyy Expects Increase in Russian Hostility Ahead of EU Vote

Zelenskyy Expects Increase in Russian Hostility Ahead of EU Vote

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said “we should expect greater hostile activity from Russia” this week as European Union leaders consider...