📷: Fast-moving thunderstorms pummeled southeastern Texas Thursday, killing at least four people, blowing out windows in high-rise buildings, downing trees and knocking out power to more than 900,000 homes and businesses in the Houston area
Australian scientists say they have discovered how an enzyme “hidden in nature’s blueprint” could help develop climate-resilient crops able to remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
A combination photo obtained from Planet Labs PBC, shows the district of al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip May 1, 2023, and the tents housing internally displaced Palestinians in the al-Mawasi district west of Khan Younis May 15, 2024.
Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip rolled across a newly built U.S. floating pier into the besieged enclave for the first time Friday as Israeli restrictions on border crossings and heavy fighting hinder food and other supplies reaching people there.
The U.S. military says a temporary pier is now anchored to the shore of Gaza, the final step in completing a sea route to distribute aid to 2 million Palestinians affected by the Israel-Hamas war.
A “lone wolf” unaffiliated with political groups was charged in the shooting of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, said Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok on Thursday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he traveled Thursday to the northeastern city of Kharkiv to meet with military officials amid a Russian offensive in the region.
Defiance and grief poured out Tuesday after a 28-year-old democracy activist in pretrial detention for allegedly defaming Thailand's powerful monarchy died from heart failure after a two-month hunger strike.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was wounded in a shooting and taken to a hospital Wednesday afternoon after a Cabinet meeting in Handlova, according to local media.
The 59-year-old prime minister was hit once in the abdomen after four shots were fired outside Handlova’s House of Culture, where Fico was meeting with supporters, the reports said.
Police have detained a suspect, according to TA3, a local media TV station.
YouTube says it will block access in Hong Kong to videos of performances of a banned protest song.
Hong Kong’s Court of Appeal ruled last week that “Glory to Hong Kong,” which emerged as an anthem for protesters during the massive anti-government protests in 2019, is illegal to sing or play in the city. The ruling said the song’s composer intended for the song to be used as a “weapon.”
Do you know where the cotton in your shirt is from? In Paris, Uyghur and Tibetan activists last week protested Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit — with allegations of human rights abuses VOA's Kasim Kashgar has the latest Uyghur-related news.
In a bid to revive domestic manufacturing, President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he is imposing a drastic tariff increase on Chinese electric vehicles and new levies on computer chips, solar cells and lithium-ion batteries.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived Tuesday in Kyiv on an unannounced visit to deliver what U.S. officials called a “strong message of reassurance” at a time when Ukrainian forces are facing stiff fighting from Russia’s military in eastern Ukraine and are awaiting the arrival of new weapons shipments from allies to help with defense.
The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, said Thursday that around 80,000 people have fled Rafah since Monday, when Israel intensified its operations in the southern Gaza Strip city.
The European Union has agreed in principle to a deal that would use the proceeds from frozen Russian assets to supply weapons for Ukraine. The bloc said the first payments could be made by the summer, despite calls by Washington for its European allies to go much further and fully seize Russia’s billions for the benefit of Kyiv.
A horse was found stranded on a rooftop in a flooded area in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul on May 8, 2024. Aerial views showed the brown horse standing on top of a building that had been submerged in floodwater.
⬅️ ➡️ Why do left and right have political meaning? The divide between left and right is one of the most fundamental markers in politics. But have you ever stopped to think about why we use those directional terms to describe ideological camps? It may surprise you to learn that this terminology traces back to the seating arrangements of French revolutionaries over 200 years ago.
The federal judge in Florida presiding over the classified documents prosecution of former President Donald Trump has canceled the May 20 trial date, postponing it indefinitely.
Israel is sending a delegation back to Cairo for more talks on the details of a cease-fire.
The Israeli move came a day after Hamas made a surprise announcement that it accepted an Egyptian cease-fire proposal that Israel had previously accepted.
But on Tuesday, Israeli officials said that the terms Hamas accepted are not the same as those in the original Egyptian proposal, and that the changes that Hamas is demanding make it impossible for Israel to agree.
🚨 Hamas says it has accepted a cease-fire proposal to halt its war with Israel.
The Palestinian militant group issued a statement accepting the Egyptian-Qatari proposal on Monday. Negotiators in Cairo had been trying to bring about a temporary halt in the fighting and the release of hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza. #voanews
Global approval of U.S. leadership is higher than China's, according to a Gallup analysis Monday. The report says that although more countries have a higher net support for U.S. leadership, global support for both the U.S. and China decreased in 2023.
Sunday, May 5, is Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day in the U.S., a date set aside to raise awareness about an epidemic of violence and violent crimes in Native and Indigenous communities.
Communities across the U.S. are marking the day with gatherings, marches and workshops.