Go beyond the headlines with VOA's Flashpoint Ukraine. Each weekday at 2105 UTC, VOA's Steve Miller puts the latest development into global context with interviews and analysis.

Every great song is born in the soul of the artist” - Shawna Renee Music lover and cultural critic, Shawna Renee, introduces ...

The US Constitution's framers did not design a direct democracy where all Americans would vote on all issues.

Myanmar’s armed resistance groups are asking US government for over half a billion dollars in humanitarian and nonlethal aid to help them oust military regime, including money for drones ...

The US and China present their visions for a new world order amid human rights differences at the 78th UN General Assembly.

The western Balkan countries are starkly split between the West and Russia, with the once-strong support for European Union accession now shrinking, according to a recent poll by the International ...

The commanders of US forces in the Middle East and Africa tell lawmakers that long lead times for military aid have allies buying weapons and weapon systems from China ...

The co-founder of a local reporting initiative in California is being recognized for her work mentoring young reporters and improving community news. Tasneem Raja, who helped set up the Cityside ...

NEW YORK — Walk into any supermarket and you can generally buy a banana for less than $1. But a banana duct-taped to a wall? That sold for $6.2 million at an auction at Sotheby's in New York ...

Washington — The son of Iran’s last monarch, exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi, used a speech to Israeli American activists in Washington on Friday to urge them to act in support of his ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday he will not allow governments allied with Moscow to be toppled in so-called “color revolutions,” a reference to the series of popular uprisings ...

Myanmar’s rebel groups made historic gains last year, the fourth of a civil war set off by a military coup in February 2021, seizing wide swathes of the country’s west and northeast and ...