Why do shooters target students and young people, and does it give international students and their families pause before applying to U.S. schools? VOA NEWS
In the Baltic country of Lithuania, there’s growing debate over a Russian-owned taxi ride-sharing service that Lithuanian government officials warn could be spying on users through their smartphones
The small town of Utqiagvik, Alaska, is the northernmost town in the United States. Entertainment is scarce and so is the list of jobs. A lot of locals still hunt and fish, and there is room for art here as well. As Natasha Mozgovaya reports, indigenous carvers have been creating beautiful figurines, intricate miniature …
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A new village has been built specifically for women in northern Syria’s Rojava region. The name of the village is Jinwar, which means a place for women in Kurdish. It has 30 identical houses, each of which is made from red clay. VOA’s Zana Omer visited the village and filed this report, narrated by Bezhan …
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People now go to experience the old Wild West complete with staged gunfights
Marijuana activists say this could just be the beginning and that the famous plant could do much more for the national economy
Somalia’s 30 years of chronic conflict have left an estimated 1 in 3 people affected by mental health issues, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
When the sun sets on the Kakuma refugee camps in Kenya, many activities come to an end because of electricity outages
The wildfires in Southern California have been sweeping through many affluent communities near Los Angeles
A government task force formed last year has been asked to make recommendations for laws and policies to protect intersex people from discrimination and hate.