Every great song is born in the soul of the artist” - Shawna Renee Music lover and cultural critic, Shawna Renee, introduces ...

Go beyond the headlines with VOA's Flashpoint Ukraine. Each weekday at 2105 UTC, VOA's Steve Miller puts the latest ...

A 29-year-old day laborer in Shashemene, a city in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, was walking home from dinner with two friends one night in November when he heard a commotion. On the side of the road, ...

Spamouflage networks with connections to China are posting antisemitic conspiracy theories on social media, casting doubt on Washington's independence from alleged Jewish influence and the integrity ...

New Chinese government statistics reveal the devastating consequences of what the United States and other countries have condemned as a genocidal campaign against the nation’s ethnic Uyghur population ...

The organization that oversees the leading college admissions test says it has cancelled the scores of several international students and is reducing future test dates overseas in an effort to crack ...

China's massive movie market means the Communist Party can pressure Hollywood to produce films that will soar in the country's box office and avoid those that may displease Beijing. At a time when ...

Friction between Japan and Russia will likely escalate amidst the burgeoning Ukraine war, with the decades-long land conflicts showing no sign of thawing. The Kremlin recently banned non-Russian ...

Uighurs who were once detained in internment camps in China’s Xinjiang region say they have been sexually abused and raped during interrogations by Chinese authorities, while also witnessing other ...

During Syria’s brutal 13-year civil war, the country was divided up in a multi-sided conflict between several armed factions whose ideologies, composition, and alliances were constantly shifting. Now, ...

New details have emerged about Iran’s rare execution this week of a member of its tiny Jewish minority. VOA has learned that Arvin Ghahremani, the first Jewish person executed by the Islamic Republic ...

On the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine earlier this week, Chinese President Xi Jinping reaffirmed Beijing's "no limits" partnership with Moscow in a call with Russian ...