The Kingdom of Bhutan’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Tandi Dorji, addresses during the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-seventh session on September 26,2022
Many were left without a place to get medical care after the Russian troops burned down a local hospital near Kyiv. A Ukrainian soccer team stepped in at that time.
Since the 22-year-old Mahsa Amini’s death, there have been protests all over Iran for more than a week. Protesters are now filling the streets, burning headscarves in the face of authorities after being detained by the country’s morality police for not wearing a hijab properly.Washington is supporting the protesters.
The largest retailers in South Africa are relying less on Chinese suppliers and preferring to buy clothing made in the country. Retailers wonder if the domestic industry can satisfy increasing needs, while it is part of a larger trend to revive local textile industry
Kenya’s wildlife authorities have launched a free mobile phone app that enables people to track sightings of rare mammals to help authorities in protecting them. Any user who spots a wild mammal can identify it and record its location using the Mammal Atlas Kenya, or Makenya
The people of Ukraine are suffering horribly as a consequence of the war. At a hospital in Lviv, VOA recently met two young boys, ages 8 and 14. In the fighting, the two suffered serious injuries and lost their parents
None of the four people who were killed in a case that implicated six Indonesian soldiers in Papua province had links with rebels, as police claimed, a leading human rights group said Friday in releasing findings from its own investigation
court in the northern Chinese province of Hebei has jailed a man for 24 years in connection with the vicious beatings of several women at a barbecue restaurant in June
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres (right) meets with Evariste Ndayishimiye, President of the Republic of Burundi
In Ethiopia’s Oromia region, where the rebel Oromo Liberation Army has been launching attacks since June, the conflict has resulted in thousands of people being displaced, according to the U.N. Meanwhile, militias in the Amhara region have been accused of abusing civilians