VOA — CAPITOL HILL — U.S. lawmakers called for an enforceable code of ethics for justices on the nation’s highest court Tuesday, saying recent concerns have once again highlighted that the U.S.... Read more »
VOA — NEW ORLEANS — U.S. President Joe Biden’s announcement that he will run for reelection in 2024 has left voters in his own Democratic party divided and generated far less immediate... Read more »
VOA — DUBAI — The growing rapprochement between Riyadh and Tehran after years of mistrust was visible on Monday as Saudi Arabia helped evacuate Iranian citizens fleeing the war in Sudan. The... Read more »
VOA — WASHINGTON — The U.S. Homeland Security chief Sunday pledged to use existing U.S. immigration laws to process thousands of migrants expected to try to cross its southwestern border with Mexico... Read more »
VOA — TEHRAN — Iran’s parliament voted to dismiss the minister of Industry, Mines and Trade Sunday. Amid allegations of mismanagement and widespread dissatisfaction with rising prices, especially in the car market,... Read more »
VOA — TEHRAN, IRAN — Four thousand Iranian petrochemical workers on strike over pay and conditions in an energy-producing region of the country’s south will be sacked and replaced, state media reported.... Read more »
VOA — Influential Iranian Sunni Muslim cleric Abdul Hamid Ismaeelzehi, known as Molavi Abdul Hamid, criticized Iran’s supreme leader during his Friday sermon in Zahedan City and said that holding a referendum... Read more »
VOA — WASHINGTON — The United States needs to speed up its diplomatic efforts in the Pacific island region in the face of Chinese competition, a U.S. diplomat said Friday, adding that... Read more »
VOA — Germany is condemning as “unacceptable” the death sentence handed down in Iran against Jamshid Sharmahd, an Iranian-German dual citizen and opposition figure accused of masterminding a deadly 2008 bombing of... Read more »
VOA — WHITE HOUSE — The Biden administration on Thursday announced new sanctions against the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and the intelligence arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for... Read more »