This is VOA news. Reporting by remote, I'm David Byrd. President Joe Biden made clear Thursday that the world should expect a more diplomatically engaged United States moving forward. AP's Sagar Meghani reports. After four years of America First, Ame...
Police in Myanmar leveled their first formal charges against Aung San Suu Kyi, accusing her of possessing illegally imported walkie talkies and giving the military authorities who staged a coup a legal reason to detain her for two weeks. The charge c...
This is VOA news. Reporting by remote, I'm David Byrd. The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that schools can safely reopen even if teachers do not get coronavirus vaccines. AP's Sagar Meghani has details. The CDC's vac...
A Russian court has sentenced opposition politician Alexei Navalny to three and a half years in prison, defying condemnation abroad and public outcry at home to send one of the Kremlin's most vocal critics to jail.Navalny previously spent 10 months u...
This is VOA news. Via remote, I'm Marissa Melton. U.S. President Joe Biden signed executive orders Tuesday to continue dismantling former President Donald Trump's restrictive immigration policies. During the signing, Biden said I'm not making new law...
This is VOA news. Via remote, I'm Marissa Melton. The World Health Organization noted Monday that globally the number of new coronavirus cases fell for the third consecutive week. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called this encour...
Clashes broke out Sunday in the impoverished Lebanese city of Tripoli. It was the latest violence between security forces and protesters furious at the economic fallout of strict coronavirus lockdown measures. Protesters took to the streets of Lebano...
This is VOA news. Via remote, I'm Marissa Melton. Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures from the ruling party have been detained in an early morning raid. This is according to a spokesman for the governing National League for Democ...
Europe's battle to secure COVID-19 vaccines intensified on Thursday as it threated to use legal means, and even block exports, to ensure supply. Reuters Lucy Fielder reports. European Council President Charles Michel said in a letter to four EU leade...
This is VOA news. Reporting by remote, I'm David Byrd. President Joe Biden has taken his first steps to reverse the Trump administration's health care policies. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday, Biden said he signed two executive...
