RFI — Nearly 5,800 people suspected of killing health workers, selling defective medical equipment and lying about their travel history have been arrested in China for epidemic-related crimes since January, the state... Read more »

VOA — Public health departments throughout the United States are calling on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to reverse changes the federal agency recently made to its public coronavirus... Read more »

VOA — WASHINGTON – Activists of Iran’s Gonabadi Dervish religious minority who have been forced to live far from home after release from prison have rejected an Iranian official’s contention that Tehran... Read more »

BBC — The sister of George Floyd, whose death in police custody sparked months of racial turmoil across the US, has urged civil rights protesters to “be his legacy” as thousands gathered... Read more »

VOA — Evacuation orders have been lifted for tens of thousands of people in the Western U.S. state of California as firefighters continue to make progress in bringing wildfires across the state... Read more »

VOA — A new study published this week suggests voting by mail would not bring chaos to the elections process, and could, in fact, boost turnout. Voting by mail has become something... Read more »

DW — A teenage suspect has been arrested after two people were shot dead during Black Lives Matter protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The NBA has postponed Wednesday’s playoff games after players’ boycott... Read more »

VOA — Forecasters are calling Hurricane Laura an extremely dangerous and catastrophic storm and say the storm surge along the U.S. Gulf Coast will be “unsurvivable.”   Laura is expected to slam... Read more »

VOA — NEW YORK – The president of the U.N. Security Council said Tuesday there is no consensus for restoring international sanctions on Iran in the 15-member council and that he would... Read more »