VOA — The U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday prolonged by a year an independent international fact-finding mission investigating Iran’s deadly crackdown on protests that erupted in 2022. The United Nations’ top... Read more »
VOA — McDonald’s will buy back all of its Israeli restaurants after sales suffered from a boycott of the brand over its perceived support for Israel. The fast food giant was criticised... Read more »
VOA — A producer of fresh eggs in the United States has temporarily shut down a plant in the southwestern state of Texas after the H5N1 strain of bird flu was detected... Read more »
VOA — NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments this month about presidential immunity and whether former President Donald Trump can be tried on charges that he conspired to... Read more »
VOA — Deliveries from Elon Musk’s Tesla have slid sharply in the first three months of the year, as the EV company grappled with a fire at its European factory, global shipping... Read more »
VOA — Iran says it will seek revenge for an Israeli airstrike that destroyed the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria, and killed at least seven members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,... Read more »
BBC — Iran's Revolutionary Guards say seven officers have been killed in an Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate building in Syria's capital, Damascus. Read more »
VOA — North America is on the verge of another masking of the sun. Monday’s total solar eclipse will make landfall along Mexico’s Pacific coast and cross into Texas and 14 other... Read more »
VOA — SAN FRANCISCO — Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so they began rolling out outlandish ideas every April Fool’s Day not long after starting their company... Read more »
VOA — LIVERMORE, CALIF. — Most fast food workers in California will be paid at least $20 an hour beginning Monday when a new law is scheduled to kick in giving more... Read more »