VOA – DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pledged on Tuesday Tehran’s continued support for Yemen’s Houthi movement and called for dialogue among Yemenis to safeguard the... Read more »

VOA  – Republican and Democratic lawmakers joined forces to oppose moves by the White House that critics fear could lead to sharp cuts in foreign aid for international health, narcotics and peacekeeping initiatives,... Read more »

VOA – WASHINGTON – More than 200 U.S. mayors demanded Thursday that the Senate return from its summer recess to approve gun control legislation in the aftermath of two mass shootings last... Read more »

NEW YORK – 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, with India home to... Read more »

VOA – WASHINGTON – A pair of mass shootings in Texas and Ohio over Saturday and Sunday have dragged two of the most divisive issues in American politics — the rise of... Read more »

VOA – LAS VEGAS – Democratic presidential candidates expressed outrage Saturday that mass shootings have becoming chillingly common nationwide and blamed the National Rifle Association and its congressional allies after a gunman... Read more »

VOA – By Muhammad Saqib and Carol Guensburg | VOA News DISTRICT DADU, PAKISTANIn Qubra Bibi’s Pakistani family, “my father believed that it was sinful” not to marry off a daughter as soon as she... Read more »

VOA – WHITE HOUSE – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday called the move by the United States to sanction Iran’s foreign minister “childish.” In a televised speech, Rouhani said the United... Read more »

VOA – TEHRAN – Former Tehran mayor Mohammad Ali Najafi was sentenced to death after being convicted of murdering his wife, the judiciary said Tuesday, after a high-profile case that received extensive... Read more »