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Gvardiol Shines at World Cup as Croatia Wins 3rd-Place Match

Gvardiol Shines at World Cup as Croatia Wins 3rd-Place Match

In what may have been Luka Modric’s final World Cup match, Josko Gvardiol made a play to be Croatia’s next...

Pope Marks 86th Birthday Giving Awards for Charity

Pope Marks 86th Birthday Giving Awards for Charity

Pope Francis marked his 86th birthday on Saturday by rewarding three people involved in charity work, including a homeless man...

Moldova Suspends TV Licenses on Misinformation Charges

Moldova Suspends TV Licenses on Misinformation Charges

The broadcast licenses of six Moldovan television stations have been suspended. Moldova’s Commission for Exceptional Situations said the suspensions were...

Russia Using Iranian Drones in Ukraine, Britain Says

Russia Using Iranian Drones in Ukraine, Britain Says

Britain’s Defense Ministry said in an intelligence update Saturday that “In recent days, there has been an uptick in Russia’s...

VOA Interview with National Security Council’s John Kirby

VOA Interview with National Security Council’s John Kirby

VOA Russian White House correspondent Mykhailo Komadovsky spoke with John Kirby, National Security Council (NSC) Coordinator for Strategic Communications, on...

VOA Interview With National Security Council’s John Kirby

VOA Interview With National Security Council’s John Kirby

In a one-on-one interview with VOA’s Russian White House correspondent Mykhailo Komadovsky, NSC spokesperson discusses U.S. support for Ukraine and...

Russian Actress Speaks Out Against Putin in Washington Poetry Performance 

Russian Actress Speaks Out Against Putin in Washington Poetry Performance 

In 2012, actress Chulpan Khamatova was campaigning for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Now based in Latvia, she speaks out against...

Central Asia Balances Domestic Demand with Foreign Exports

Central Asia Balances Domestic Demand with Foreign Exports

Rising domestic demand is forcing Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to cut back or halt natural gas exports to China, prompting a...

Massive Aquarium Bursts in Berlin

Massive Aquarium Bursts in Berlin

A massive aquarium in Berlin has burst, spilling 1,500 tropical fish and a million liters of water into the complex...

Fire in France Kills 10, Including 5 Children

Fire in France Kills 10, Including 5 Children

Ten people, including five children aged 3 to 15 years, were killed in a fire that broke out Friday morning...

Chinese Diplomatic Personnel Forced Out of UK

Chinese Diplomatic Personnel Forced Out of UK

Six Chinese diplomatic personnel left Britain this week for their alleged roles in assaulting protesters at the Chinese Consulate in...

China Trying to Fight Back US Ban on Its Chip Industry

China Trying to Fight Back US Ban on Its Chip Industry

China is spending $143 billion to combat U.S. moves to cut off its supply of semiconductor technology.  The funds will...

VOA Journalist Among Media Suspended on Twitter

VOA Journalist Among Media Suspended on Twitter

VOA Chief National Correspondent Steve Herman was among several journalists to be suspended from Twitter late Thursday. Followers of the...

Tiny Meteorite May Have Caused Leak From Soyuz Capsule

Tiny Meteorite May Have Caused Leak From Soyuz Capsule

Russian and NASA engineers were assessing a coolant leak on Thursday from a Soyuz crew capsule docked with the International...

ICC Confirms Upholds 25-year Sentence for Ugandan LRA Commander

ICC Confirms Upholds 25-year Sentence for Ugandan LRA Commander

The International Criminal Court on Thursday confirmed the convictions of Dominic Ongwen, a former Ugandan child soldier who rose to...

European Parliament Suspends Work With Qatar in Response to Criminal Probe

European Parliament Suspends Work With Qatar in Response to Criminal Probe

The European Parliament voted Thursday to suspend all work on legislation linked to Qatar after allegations of corruption involving a...

Slovak Parliament Dumps Center-Right Cabinet, Early Election an Option

Slovak Parliament Dumps Center-Right Cabinet, Early Election an Option

Slovakia’s minority center-right government lost a no-confidence vote Thursday, raising political instability and possibly bringing an early election sometime in...

Russia Warns US on Sending Patriot Missiles to Ukraine

Russia Warns US on Sending Patriot Missiles to Ukraine

Russia’s foreign ministry warned the United States on Thursday that if it ships sophisticated Patriot air defense missiles to Ukraine,...

US Targets Russian Oligarch in Latest Round of Sanctions

US Targets Russian Oligarch in Latest Round of Sanctions

The United States imposed new economic sanctions on Russian financial interests Thursday, targeting one of the country’s richest businessmen, Vladimir...

Boris Becker Freed from UK prison, Expected to be Deported

Boris Becker Freed from UK prison, Expected to be Deported

German tennis star Boris Becker, 55, has been freed from a British prison, the government said on Thursday, meaning he...

British Nurses Stage First Ever National Walkout Amid Pay Dispute

British Nurses Stage First Ever National Walkout Amid Pay Dispute

National Health Service nurses in Britain staged a strike on Thursday, their first ever national walkout, as a bitter dispute...

Iran Sentences Belgian Aid Worker to 28 Years in Prison

Iran Sentences Belgian Aid Worker to 28 Years in Prison

Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele has been sentenced to 28 years in prison in Iran for a “fabricated series of...