French prosecutors seek 20-year term for Pelicot in mass rape case
AVIGNON, France — French prosecutors asked for the maximum 20-year prison sentence for Dominique Pelicot, who organized the repeated mass rape...
Google to build subsea cable linking Australia’s Darwin to Christmas Island
sydney — Australia’s Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island will be connected by subsea cable to the northern garrison city of...
Google’s US antitrust trial over online ad empire winds down
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — The U.S. Justice Department told a federal judge that Google illegally dominated online advertising technology in seeking a...
From VOA Russian: Georgia’s Parliament opens with opposition boycott
VOA Russian’s correspondent reports from Georgia, where the first session of the new parliament is meeting after the election won...
From VOA Russian and VOA Ukrainian: US experts analyze Moscow’s nuclear threats
U.S. experts are casting doubt on the effectiveness of Russia’s threat to expand the use of its new ballistic missile...
Hundreds of homeowners in England and Wales battle floodwaters after weekend storm
London — Hundreds of homeowners in England and Wales were battling floodwaters Monday morning after the second major storm of the...
$300B COP29 climate deal sparks outrage, hope
BAKU, AZERBAIJAN — Anger and frustration from developing nations vulnerable to climate impacts are likely to linger following the conclusion of...
Russian aerial attack injures at least 15 in Kharkiv
Ukrainian officials said Monday a Russian attack on the northeastern city of Kharkiv injured at least 19 people. Oleh Syniehubov,...
Foreign ministers meet in Italy for the last G7 of the Biden administration
ROME — Foreign ministers from the world’s leading industrialized nations are meeting Monday, with the wars in Ukraine and the Middle...
Pro-Russian candidate creates a surprise in Romanian presidential election
BUCHAREST — A Romanian hard-right NATO critic and leftist Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu appeared in dead heat after the first round...
