Buses Move 400 Asylum-Seekers From Squalid Dutch Camp

Buses Move 400 Asylum-Seekers From Squalid Dutch Camp

Authorities transferred some 400 asylum-seekers away from a makeshift camp outside an overcrowded migrant reception center in the northeastern Netherlands...

Humanitarian Ship Rescues 268 Migrants in Mediterranean

Humanitarian Ship Rescues 268 Migrants in Mediterranean

The Ocean Viking, a humanitarian ship of SOS Mediterranee, has rescued 268 people since Thursday during five rescues of migrants...

Nuclear Treaty Conference Near End with Ukraine in Spotlight

Nuclear Treaty Conference Near End with Ukraine in Spotlight

As Friday’s end to a four-week conference to review the landmark U.N. treaty aimed at curbing the spread of nuclear...

Turkish Pop Star Jailed Over Joke About Religious Schools

Turkish Pop Star Jailed Over Joke About Religious Schools

Turkish pop star Gulsen has been arrested on charges of “inciting hatred and enmity” with a joke she made about...

NATO Head Warns About Russian, Chinese Interest in Arctic

NATO Head Warns About Russian, Chinese Interest in Arctic

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned Friday about Russia’s military buildup in the Arctic and China’s increasing interest in that part...

Russian-Occupied Nuclear Power Plant Resumes Electricity Supply to Ukraine

Russian-Occupied Nuclear Power Plant Resumes Electricity Supply to Ukraine

The Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant resumed electricity supplies to Ukraine on Friday after one of its six reactors was...

Experts Worry Digital Footprints Will Incriminate US Patients Seeking Abortions

Experts Worry Digital Footprints Will Incriminate US Patients Seeking Abortions

The U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of protections for abortion rights has intensified scrutiny of the personal data that technology firms...

Turkey, Finland, Sweden Discuss Security Concerns, to Keep Meeting Through Autumn

Turkey, Finland, Sweden Discuss Security Concerns, to Keep Meeting Through Autumn

Officials from Turkey, Finland and Sweden agreed on Friday to keep meeting in the coming months to discuss security concerns...

New Jersey Charity Helps Deaf, Hearing-Impaired Kids in Ukraine

New Jersey Charity Helps Deaf, Hearing-Impaired Kids in Ukraine

A U.S. charity based in Jersey City, New Jersey, is collecting donations and raising funds not only to support Ukraine’s...

Families Keep Alive Hopes for Imprisoned Mariupol Defenders 

Families Keep Alive Hopes for Imprisoned Mariupol Defenders 

While the world has taken notice that the war in Ukraine has passed its six months mark, it’s been more...

Amid Ruins of Azovstal, Images of Pain and Sacrifice

Amid Ruins of Azovstal, Images of Pain and Sacrifice

Inside the Azovstal steel plant, before Ukraine surrendered it to Russian forces …

France’s Macron Urges Future with Algeria Beyond ‘Painful’ History

France’s Macron Urges Future with Algeria Beyond ‘Painful’ History

At the start of a three-day visit to Algeria, President Emmanuel Macron indicated Thursday that France and the North African...

California Phasing Out Gas Vehicles in Climate Change Fight 

California Phasing Out Gas Vehicles in Climate Change Fight 

California set itself on a path Thursday to end the era of gas-powered cars, with air regulators adopting the world’s...

For First Time, Facebook, Twitter Take Down Pro-US Influence Operation

For First Time, Facebook, Twitter Take Down Pro-US Influence Operation

This summer, for the first time, Facebook and Twitter removed a network of fake user accounts promoting pro-Western policy positions...

Dutch Agencies Help Migrants Sleeping Outside Crowded Camp

Dutch Agencies Help Migrants Sleeping Outside Crowded Camp

Dutch aid agencies tended Thursday to hundreds of migrants camped in sweltering heat outside an overcrowded center for asylum-seekers as...

VOA Exclusive: Ukrainian Nuclear Engineer Details Conditions Inside Zaporizhzhia Plant 

VOA Exclusive: Ukrainian Nuclear Engineer Details Conditions Inside Zaporizhzhia Plant 

An engineer working under Russian occupation since March 4 at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) has told VOA that...

Analysts: Erdogan’s Future Pinned to Russia

Analysts: Erdogan’s Future Pinned to Russia

Turkey is deepening trade relations with Russia in the face of Western sanctions against Moscow. Political observers say Turkish President...

2 Bulgarian Police Officers Dead After Migrant Bus Collision

2 Bulgarian Police Officers Dead After Migrant Bus Collision

Bulgaria’s interior ministry and local police say two police officers were killed Thursday when a bus carrying at least 47...

Sweden Campaigning Reflects Changing Political Landscape

Sweden Campaigning Reflects Changing Political Landscape

Sweden’s immigration policies are a big factor heading into elections next month on September 11th, when Swedes head to the...

Britain’s Former Myanmar Envoy Detained in Yangon, Sources Say

Britain’s Former Myanmar Envoy Detained in Yangon, Sources Say

Authorities in Myanmar have detained Britain’s former ambassador to the Southeast Asian nation, where a military junta seized power last...

3 Finnish Journalists on Trial for Revealing Defense Secrets

3 Finnish Journalists on Trial for Revealing Defense Secrets

Three journalists went on trial Thursday in Finland on charges of revealing national defense secrets for allegedly publishing classified documents...

UN Rights Chief Urges Putin to End Ukraine War

UN Rights Chief Urges Putin to End Ukraine War

U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Thursday called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to “halt armed attack against Ukraine.”...