VOA — WASHINGTON — A new survey shows that nearly 70% of Muslims in the United States give zakat, or practice almsgiving, during Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting. The survey, conducted... Read more »
VOA — The latest U.S. inflation data are “along the lines of what we would like to see,” Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Friday in comments that appeared to keep the... Read more »
VOA — The U.S. Department of State has strongly condemned the Iranian government’s imposition of harsh sentences on 11 women’s rights activists in Gilan province. The department’s spokesperson denounced the sentences as... Read more »
VOA — A journalist on a reporting trip in a Ural Mountains city. A corporate security executive traveling to Moscow for a wedding. A dual national returning to her hometown in Tatarstan... Read more »
VOA — TEHRAN, IRAN — Nine people were killed Thursday in a car crash in northeastern Iran, the worst single accident since the start of the Persian new year holiday, state media... Read more »
BBC — Nearly one in six adolescents have experienced cyberbullying, an international study has found. More school-aged children have reported being cyberbullied than before the pandemic, according to the report by the... Read more »
VOA — TEHRAN, IRAN — An Iranian court has sentenced a police chief in northern Iran to death after he was charged with killing a man during mass protests in 2022, local... Read more »
BBC — The US Supreme Court appeared sceptical of an effort to restrict access to a commonly used abortion drug, mifepristone, during a Tuesday hearing. Read more »
BBC — Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks, will have to wait until 20 May to find out whether he will be extradited to the US. The UK courts had... Read more »
VOA — United Nations chief Antonio Guterres called on Monday for reparations over the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved people as a way to tackle its legacy in today’s society, including systemic racism.... Read more »