VOA — DUBAI, UAE — A teenage Iranian girl, who fell into a coma earlier this month following an alleged encounter with officers over violating the country’s hijab law, is said to... Read more »

BBC — Joel Gunter — Abed Wadi was getting dressed for the funeral when the message arrived. Read more »

VOA — The European Union has awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Mahsa Amini, who died shortly after Iranian authorities arrested her last year. Iranian morality police arrested Amini,... Read more »

VOA — PARIS — French Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah has returned to France, her university said Wednesday, after being held for 4½ years in Iran in a case that prompted tensions between Paris... Read more »

VOA — The lawyer representing the family of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Iranian woman who died in police custody last year, has been sentenced to a year in prison after being convicted... Read more »

VOA — TEHRAN, IRAN — One of Iran’s most prominent filmmakers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death Saturday evening alongside his wife at their home near Tehran. A provincial chief justice said... Read more »

VOA — WASHINGTON — Following another month of record-breaking temperatures throughout the globe in September, the year 2023 is all but certain to be the warmest on record, a U.S. agency said... Read more »

VOA — SUNLAND PARK, NEW MEXICO — Veteran firefighter Daniel Medrano got out of his truck somewhere in the barren outskirts of Sunland Park, New Mexico, where a vast expanse of yellow... Read more »

VOA — WASHINGTON — U.S. Homeland Security officials have yet to see indications that calls for a day of anger on Friday by a former leader of the Hamas militant group will... Read more »