VOA — WASHINGTON — U.S. optimism that a deal to restore the 2015 agreement to limit Iran’s nuclear developed has soured, with the State Department warning Tuesday it was headed toward “Plan... Read more »
VOA — The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic saw more Americans drinking heavily or using illicit drugs — but apparently not smoking. U.S. cigarette smoking dropped to a new all-time low... Read more »
VOA — WHITE HOUSE — The Biden administration is in danger of cutting short its efforts to help vaccinate the world because U.S. lawmakers had slashed global pandemic response funds from the... Read more »
VOA — A British-US-Iranian national who’d been released from an Iranian prison just two days ago was back in jail Friday, his family said. Morad Tahbaz was released on furlough on the... Read more »
BBC — Higher oil prices are set to lead to a 10% increase in air fares, according to the boss of one of the world’s biggest airlines. Delta Air Lines head Ed... Read more »
VOA — ISTANBUL — While the United States and European Union are enforcing powerful financial and trade sanctions on Moscow and closing their airspace to Russian airplanes, Turkey strongly opposes such measures,... Read more »
VOA — WASHINGTON — The U.S. Federal Reserve launched a high-risk effort Wednesday to tame the worst inflation since the early 1980s, raising its benchmark short-term interest rate and signaling up to... Read more »
VOA — WASHINGTON — Announcing tough sanctions against Russian oligarchs over the war in Ukraine was step one. Now the U.S. and its allies are creating new teams to act on their... Read more »
VOA — WASHINGTON — The Biden administration Tuesday is commemorating Equal Pay Day, which symbolizes how much longer women must work to make what men earned in the previous year. Last year,... Read more »
VOA — DUBAI/WASHINGTON — Russia said on Tuesday it has written guarantees it can carry out its work as a party to the Iran nuclear deal, suggesting Moscow could allow a revival... Read more »