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 »

VOA – “Hostile” and “provocative” is how Iran labeled a proposal to form a European coalition to escort tankers through the Persian Gulf. “We heard that they intend to send a European... Read more »

VOA – RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil is entangled in a diplomatic spat that could potentially damage a long-standing commercial relationship with Iran, which is the biggest buyer of Brazilian corn. Seyed... Read more »

VOA – Britain’s Conservative Party announced Tuesday that Boris Johnson has won the election to be its new leader and become the country’s next prime minister. Johnson defeated British Foreign Secretary Jeremy... Read more »