BBC — An Iranian teenager was sexually assaulted and killed by three men working for Iran’s security forces, a leaked document understood to have been written by those forces says. It has... Read more »

VOA — Rapper Toomaj Salehi’s lawyer, Mostafa Nili, revealed recently that during last year’s legal proceedings in Iran, Salehi was acquitted of the initial charge of “corruption on earth” and should have... Read more »

VOA — Two days after Toomaj Salehi, a dissident rapper in Iran, was sentenced to death, reactions at home and abroad continue to pour in. In the latest wave of criticism, a... Read more »

VOA — An Iranian court has sentenced to death a popular rapper jailed for more than a year and a half for supporting nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death, local media... Read more »

VOA — All About America explores American culture, politics, trends, history, ideals and places of interest. A decadeslong trend toward secularization, which has come more slowly to America than many other developed... Read more »

VOA — THE WHITE HOUSE — Preparations take months. No detail is overlooked, for this is perhaps the most evolved form of diplomacy: the state dinner. As first lady Jill Biden prepared... Read more »

VOA — AUSTIN, TEXAS — Chinese migrants coming across the southern U.S. border say they made the treacherous journey to flee China’s authoritarian rule, to seek the American dream or escape growing... Read more »

VOA — SAN FRANCISCO — Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so they began rolling out outlandish ideas every April Fool’s Day not long after starting their company... Read more »

BBC — Nearly one in six adolescents have experienced cyberbullying, an international study has found. More school-aged children have reported being cyberbullied than before the pandemic, according to the report by the... Read more »