VOA — WASHINGTON — The Biden administration tells VOA that in recent months it has increased the amount of U.S. public and private funds for a multilateral program to build infrastructure in... 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 — The world should be careful to ensure the standoff with Iran over its nuclear program does not become like North Korea, which expelled U.N. inspectors before testing nuclear... Read more »
VOA — The medicine in the diabetes drug Mounjaro helped people with obesity or who are overweight lose at least a quarter of their body weight, or about 27 kilograms (60 pounds)... 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 — BEIRUT, LEBANON — Iran said Saturday it was still possible to prevent a regional spillover of Israel’s war with Islamist group Hamas but warned that time was quickly running out.... Read more »
VOA — LOS ANGELES — U.S. law enforcement agencies have escalated security measures to safeguard Jewish and Muslim communities ahead of global pro-Palestinian protests expected on Friday, but they urged members of... 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 — Under pressure from Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress to block Iran from accessing $6 billion in oil revenues made available as part of a recent prisoner exchange deal,... Read more »