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How a Spanish Newspaper Tackled the Taboo of Church Abuse

How a Spanish Newspaper Tackled the Taboo of Church Abuse

Five years ago, Soledad Gallego-Diaz challenged Spain’s last great taboo: sexual abuse inside the Roman Catholic Church. The newly appointed...

Rise in Legal Harassment of Media a Focus at Press Freedom Awards

Rise in Legal Harassment of Media a Focus at Press Freedom Awards

Journalists from India, Togo, Georgia and Mexico are honored with International Press Freedom Awards this week. The legal threats and...

US Issues Sanctions to Limit Russian Influence in Balkans

US Issues Sanctions to Limit Russian Influence in Balkans

The United States on Thursday targeted 10 individuals in a new round of sanctions aimed at containing Russian influence in...

David Cameron Visits Ukrainian Port City of Odesa

David Cameron Visits Ukrainian Port City of Odesa

The United Kingdom’s top foreign diplomat, David Cameron, traveled to the Port of Odesa Thursday to pledge continued support for...

Russian Dissenter Sentenced to 7 Years for Protest Art

Russian Dissenter Sentenced to 7 Years for Protest Art

A Russian court on Thursday sentenced a protest artist to seven years in prison for switching grocery store price tags...

Ukraine’s Top General Describes How to Gain Advantage on Russia

Ukraine’s Top General Describes How to Gain Advantage on Russia

Ukraine’s top general, Valery Zaluzhny, outlined his views on the ongoing war in Ukraine in a recent interview with The Economist....

Top Court Declares Rwanda Migrant Deal Unlawful

Top Court Declares Rwanda Migrant Deal Unlawful

Britain’s highest court ruled Wednesday that the government’s migrant policy of sending asylum-seekers to Rwanda for processing is illegal —...

German Police Raid Properties Linked to Group Suspected of Backing Hezbollah

German Police Raid Properties Linked to Group Suspected of Backing Hezbollah

German police raided 54 locations across the country on Thursday in an investigation of a Hamburg-based center suspected of promoting...

Ukraine ‘Cannot Afford Any Stalemate’ In War With Russia, Zelenskyy Says

Ukraine ‘Cannot Afford Any Stalemate’ In War With Russia, Zelenskyy Says

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that a stalemate in his country’s war against Russia would create a “volcano that...

Under Pressure, Central Asia Migrants Leaving Russia Over Ukraine War

Under Pressure, Central Asia Migrants Leaving Russia Over Ukraine War

After living and working in Russia for the last decade, Tajik construction worker Zoir Kurbanov recently decided it was time...

Frozen Library of Ancient Ice Tells Tales of Climate’s Past

Frozen Library of Ancient Ice Tells Tales of Climate’s Past

How was the air breathed by Caesar, the Prophet Mohammed or Christopher Columbus? A giant freezer in Copenhagen holds the...

Russian Woman on Trial in Bombing That Killed Military Blogger

Russian Woman on Trial in Bombing That Killed Military Blogger

A woman went on trial Wednesday in the bombing that killed a prominent Russian military blogger who died after he...

US Approves SpaceX for 2nd Launch of Starship Super Heavy

US Approves SpaceX for 2nd Launch of Starship Super Heavy

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday granted Elon Musk’s SpaceX a license to launch the company’s second test flight...

UK Top Court Rules Against Plan to Deport Migrants; PM Undeterred

UK Top Court Rules Against Plan to Deport Migrants; PM Undeterred

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged on Wednesday that his government will keep seeking ways to send some undocumented immigrants...

Nickel Miners, Environmentalists Learn to Live Together in Michigan

Nickel Miners, Environmentalists Learn to Live Together in Michigan

It began as a familiar old story. In the early 2000s, multinational mining giant Rio Tinto came to the wilds...

Ukraine Gains Foothold on Key Eastern Riverbank, Official Says

Ukraine Gains Foothold on Key Eastern Riverbank, Official Says

Ukrainian troops have established a foothold on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River in the Kherson Oblast, according to...

VOA Interview: Estonian Prime Minister Calls for End to Europe’s ‘Gray Zones’

VOA Interview: Estonian Prime Minister Calls for End to Europe’s ‘Gray Zones’

After 21 months of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas says there is much more on the...

Women in Ukrainian Shelter Find Support, Opportunities, Stitching Lives Together

Women in Ukrainian Shelter Find Support, Opportunities, Stitching Lives Together

Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Natalia Dresvyannikova was managing a women’s shelter in the Kyiv region, helping women in difficult situations....

Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Pleads Not Guilty after Arrest at London Protest

Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Pleads Not Guilty after Arrest at London Protest

Climate activist Greta Thunberg pleaded not guilty to a public order offence charge in a British court on Wednesday, following...

Increase in Use of Land Mines Triggers Rise in Civilian Casualties in Ukraine, Myanmar

Increase in Use of Land Mines Triggers Rise in Civilian Casualties in Ukraine, Myanmar

The use of anti-personnel land mines by Russia and Myanmar triggered a surge in the number of civilian casualties in...

US, Britain Impose Sanctions on Hamas  

US, Britain Impose Sanctions on Hamas  

The United States and Britain on Tuesday imposed a third round of sanctions targeting the Palestinian militant group Hamas, trying...

Ukrainian Combat Medics Perform Blood Transfusions on Battlefield

Ukrainian Combat Medics Perform Blood Transfusions on Battlefield

Almost two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, combat medics have started to perform blood transfusions in the trenches....