GUATEMALA CITY — Conservative Alejandro Giammattei could prevail in Guatemala’s presidential runoff Sunday if misgivings about his opponent among urban voters outweigh her support in the Central American nation’s poor Mayanчитати
Papua New Guinea’s new leader has asked China to refinance its entire 27 billion kina ($7.8 billion) government debt and enter into free trading arrangementsчитати
A quarter of the world’s people are just a few dry spells away from facing dangerous water shortages, a U.S. think tank warned on Tuesday,читати
Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday said it would offer a $13-per-month bundle of its three streaming services starting in November, a move to attract audiencesчитати
President Donald Trump this week declared China a currency manipulator after Beijing stopped purchasing U.S. agricultural products and allowed its yuan to weaken. VOA’s Arashчитати
North Korea launched a fresh round of short-range ballistic missiles into the sea early Tuesday and warned it could take a “new road” in responseчитати
U.S. stocks closed sharply higher Tuesday, rebounding from the biggest drop of the year after China stepped in to strengthen its currency. The Dow Jonesчитати
A South African group of teenage pilots who flew a self-assembled aircraft across Africa are back in South Africa after tragedy struck the expedition. Theчитати
Lee Juhyun in Seoul and Pentagon correspondent Carla Babb in Tokyo contributed to this report. North Korea launched a fresh round of ballistic missiles intoчитати
Newtown. Charleston. Orlando. Parkland. And now after mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, Congress again is confronted with the question of what,читати
Volunteers on Monday planted crosses, each representing a fatality in Saturday’s mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, at a shrine toчитати
Wall Street’s major indexes posted their biggest percentage drop of the year on Monday as a fall in the yuan following U.S. President Donald Trump’sчитати
Uganda has started its largest Ebola vaccine trial to date, health authorities announced Monday, in an apparent effort to prevent the disease from spreading. Anчитати
Nigerian technologist Chinenye Udeh wants to ensure schoolgirls learn Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for summer. Udeh says she is trying to boost gender parityчитати
In a far-reaching move, India’s Hindu nationalist government has scrapped the special autonomous status given to Kashmir for decades, sparking fears of a backlash inчитати
In the border town of El Paso, Texas, a shooter opened fire and left 20 people dead and more than two dozen injured. Hours laterчитати
The US and the Taliban met to thrash out elements of a deal to bring a close to Afghanistan’s 18-year conflict at the second dayчитати
After two mass shootings in a span of 13 hours, there have now been more than 250 such events this year in which at leastчитати
Turkey will carry out a military operation in a Kurdish-controlled area east of the Euphrates in northern Syria, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday,читати
In 13 hours of carnage in the United States, two shooters in separate incidents killed 29 people and injured dozens, leaving authorities searching for motivesчитати
Iranian media say the Revolutionary Guard has seized an oil tanker carrying 700,000 liters of “smuggled fuel” in the Persian Gulf. The semi-official Fars newsчитати
Thousands of protesters took to Hong Kong’s streets Sunday, a day after violent clashes between anti-government protesters and police, and as China’s official news agencyчитати
In 2019, Indonesians saw a surging number of cases of violence involving children. In April, a 14-year-old girl was bullied and physically assaulted by threeчитати
Democratic presidential candidates expressed outrage Saturday that mass shootings have becoming chillingly common nationwide and blamed the National Rifle Association and its congressional allies afterчитати
U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper is crisscrossing the Asia-Pacific region on his first international trip as head of the Defense Department. The trip beganчитати
A munitions blast killed 31 regime and allied fighters at a military airport in central Syria on Saturday, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatoryчитати
Russian police detained nearly 200 people Saturday at a Moscow protest against unfair elections, a monitoring group said. The non-governmental group OVD-Info, which monitors arrests,читати
India has deported a former Maldives vice president. Ahmed Adeeb was deported Saturday. He tried to enter India’s southern port of Tuticorin on Thursday aboardчитати
The African Union envoy to Sudan said Saturday the pro-democracy movement and the ruling military council have finalized a power-sharing agreement. Mohammed el-Hassan Lebatt toldчитати
Hong Kong civil servants and supporters crowded into a public park Friday to join a pro-democracy movement that China’s top diplomat accused Western nations ofчитати
VOA’s Ayaz Gul contributed to this story from Islamabad. Some of the information used in this report came from Reuters WASHINGTON, KUNAR, AFGHANISTAN — Nematullah Bakhtyar,читати
BOSTON — Authorities said Friday that they were looking to toxicology reports for clues to the death of Saoirse Kennedy Hill, a granddaughter of assassinated U.S.читати
The U.S. Navy has identified the pilot killed in the crash of a fighter jet in the California desert. A Navy statement Friday says theчитати
A television documentary has made allegations linking Australia’s gambling giant, Crown Casino, to organized crime, money laundering and human trafficking. The company has taken outчитати
Life can have its obstacles, but facing those obstacles with a disability is even more challenging. Saba Shah Khan introduces us to a lawyer inчитати
A nascent immigration deal between the United States and Guatemala continued to take shape Thursday, as the U.S. Homeland Security acting secretary visited the impoverishedчитати