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Six People in Critical Condition, One Still Missing After Paris Blast

Six People in Critical Condition, One Still Missing After Paris Blast

Six people remained in a critical condition and one person was believed still missing on Thursday, one day after a...

Latest in Ukraine: Russia Says Ukraine Hit Bridge Linking to Crimea

Latest in Ukraine: Russia Says Ukraine Hit Bridge Linking to Crimea

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said there was fierce fighting along the front lines, but that his forces were advancing in...

More Than 30 Feared Dead as Boat Bound for Spain’s Canary Islands Sinks

More Than 30 Feared Dead as Boat Bound for Spain’s Canary Islands Sinks

More than 30 migrants were feared dead after a small boat headed for Spain’s Canary Islands sank Wednesday, two migration-focused...

Pakistani Parents of Migrant Boat Accident Victims Wait Anxiously for Information

Pakistani Parents of Migrant Boat Accident Victims Wait Anxiously for Information

Last week’s migrant boat accident in the Mediterranean Sea near Greece has sent shock waves through Pakistan, home to almost...

Lawsuit Accuses Eight Iranian Officials of Crimes Against Humanity

Lawsuit Accuses Eight Iranian Officials of Crimes Against Humanity

The daughter of a German Iranian citizen sentenced to death in Iran has asked authorities in Germany to open criminal...

Iran, EU Negotiators Discuss How to Cool Nuclear Tensions

Iran, EU Negotiators Discuss How to Cool Nuclear Tensions

Iran met in Qatar with European Union mediator Enrique Mora as part of efforts to revive its 2015 nuclear pact...

Turkey Cracks Down on Istanbul Pride Events

Turkey Cracks Down on Istanbul Pride Events

Turkey’s LGBT+ movement is celebrating pride this week in Istanbul, but authorities are cracking down on any public displays as...

VOA on the Scene: Ukraine Fights ‘Meter by Meter’ for Occupied Land

VOA on the Scene: Ukraine Fights ‘Meter by Meter’ for Occupied Land

Ukraine is about two weeks into a major push to retake areas occupied by Russia for more than a year....

Belarus Hands Lengthy Prison Terms to 18 Participants of 2020 Protests

Belarus Hands Lengthy Prison Terms to 18 Participants of 2020 Protests

A court in Belarus on Wednesday handed lengthy prison terms to 18 participants of mass anti-government protests that shook the...

Andrew Tate Appears in Romanian Court on Rape and Human Trafficking Charges

Andrew Tate Appears in Romanian Court on Rape and Human Trafficking Charges

Andrew Tate, a social media personality known for expressing misogynistic views online, appeared Wednesday at a court in Romania, where...

Paris Talks Aim to Rehaul World Financing Norms  

Paris Talks Aim to Rehaul World Financing Norms  

Dozens of heads of state, along with leaders from business, multilateral institutions and civil society are set to gather in...

Latest in Ukraine: Russia Downs Drones 

Latest in Ukraine: Russia Downs Drones 

Latest Developments: U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls on Black Sea Grain Initiative parties to “accelerate operations” after slowdown in ship...

Growing Pressure on Greece Over Migrant Shipwreck, As Hundreds Still Missing

Growing Pressure on Greece Over Migrant Shipwreck, As Hundreds Still Missing

Greece is under growing pressure to launch an independent investigation into the June 13 sinking of a vessel that was...

Hundreds Still Missing as Greece Pressed to Investigate Migrant Shipwreck

Hundreds Still Missing as Greece Pressed to Investigate Migrant Shipwreck

Greece is under growing pressure to launch an investigation into the June 13 sinking of a vessel that was carrying...

Media Show Resiliency Under Pressure in Europe, Report Finds 

Media Show Resiliency Under Pressure in Europe, Report Finds 

Off the top of his head, Piotr Stasinski doesn’t know how many lawsuits his newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza, has faced over...

Escaping Conflict, Ukraine’s Refugee Women Go It Alone

Escaping Conflict, Ukraine’s Refugee Women Go It Alone

The U.N. says that among 8 million refugees who have fled the war in Ukraine, 90% are women and children....

Albanian Police Raid Iranian Dissidents Camp

Albanian Police Raid Iranian Dissidents Camp

Albanian police on Tuesday raided a camp home to members of an Iranian opposition movement, with local media reporting that...

What We Know About the Titanic-Bound Submersible That’s Missing With 5 People Onboard

What We Know About the Titanic-Bound Submersible That’s Missing With 5 People Onboard

A search is underway for a deep-sea vessel that went missing with five people aboard after it dived toward the...

Vatican Document Highlights Need for Concrete Steps for Women, ‘Radical Inclusion’ of LGBTQ+

Vatican Document Highlights Need for Concrete Steps for Women, ‘Radical Inclusion’ of LGBTQ+

An unprecedented global canvassing of Catholics has called for the church to take concrete steps to promote women to decision-making...

Romanian Prosecutors Send Andrew Tate to Trial for Human Trafficking 

Romanian Prosecutors Send Andrew Tate to Trial for Human Trafficking 

Romanian prosecutors sent divisive internet personality Andrew Tate, his brother Tristan and two other suspects to trial on Tuesday on...

Data: China Imports of Russian Oil Highest Since Ukraine Invasion

Data: China Imports of Russian Oil Highest Since Ukraine Invasion

Chinese imports of Russian oil last month hit their highest level since Moscow’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Beijing’s customs...

French Investigators Search Offices of Paris Olympic Organizers in Suspected Corruption Probe 

French Investigators Search Offices of Paris Olympic Organizers in Suspected Corruption Probe 

French investigators searched the headquarters of Paris Olympic organizers on Tuesday in a probe into suspected corruption, according to the...