US to Leave Bagram Airfield after 20 Years For nearly 20 years, Bagram Airfield was the center of American military power in Afghanistan. The base is located behind fences and protective walls just an hour's drive north of the Afghan capital, Kabul....
A tiger park in Phuket, Thailand is preparing to welcome back foreign visitors this week. The re-opening is part of a plan to bring back foreign visitors with proof of COVID-19 vaccination to the island. The visitors do not have to follow lockdown re...
The search continues for survivors of a building collapse near Miami, Florida on June 24. At least 11 people died when parts of the 12-floor-building fell. And 150 remain missing. 6月24日，佛罗里达州迈阿密附近的大楼发生倒塌，目前...
Several American states have proposed new legislation and policies controlling how the history of race and slavery is taught in public schools. Some single out The New York Times' 1619 Project as misrepresenting U.S. history. The project argues that...
Brazil's president is sending troops back to the Amazon to enforce laws against cutting down trees and other land clearance activity. The redeployment comes just two months after troops withdrew from the area. President Jair Bolsonaro ordered soldier...
K-pop Activism Helps Thailand's 'Tuk Tuk' Drivers In Bangkok, Thailand, tuk tuk vehicle driver Samran Thammasa had never heard of K-pop music singer Jessica Jung before the pandemic. Now, Jung's fans are helping Thammasa survive the loss of paying to...
Many companies are making changes to their offices to help employees feel safer as they return to work after more than one year of coronavirus restrictions. Some are improving office air systems or are moving desks farther apart. Others are removing...
Some 128 baby squid from Hawaii are in space for a study. The baby Hawaiian bobtail squid came from the University of Hawaii's Kewalo Marine Laboratory. They rode on a SpaceX spacecraft along with thousands of kilos of supplies for the International...
Rescue workers still hope to find survivors of the collapse of a large condominium building on an island community near Miami, Florida, on Thursday. 周四，救援人员仍然寄希望于在一栋倒塌的大型公寓大楼中找到幸存者，这座大...
Poor Countries Struggle to Vaccinate Against COVID-19 From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. Health experts and world leaders have given this warning. It is not enough to vaccinate people in rich nations against the coronavir...
Dutch Art Experts Enlarge Famous Painting Using Artificial Intelligence A marriage of art and artificial intelligence, or AI, has made it possible to recreate missing parts from a famous painting in the national museum of the Netherlands in Amsterdam...
High temperature records are being broken across the Pacific Northwest, as an extreme heat wave covers the area. Portland, Oregon, reached 44.4 degrees Celsius Sunday. That broke the all-time temperature record of 42.2 degrees Celsius set just one da...
U.S. space agency researchers successfully used balloons to detect earthquakes in the California desert. The experiment tested whether similar balloons could be sent to Venus to study that planet's seismic activity. NASA recently announced plans to l...
Big technology companies like Amazon have said they are limiting their sale of facial recognition software to law enforcement agencies. Clearview AI has not. It is a private company based in New York City. Clearview AI provides a facial recognition s...
Serbian Roma Band Sings for Womens Rights In Serbia, a Roma singing group is using music to spread the message of women's empowerment in their community. The all-female group aims to urge people to resist centuries-old traditions, including male-only...
