The availability of short-term property rentals on platforms like Airbnb is likely to be drastically

Once-in-17-years insects apparently clogged plane's engine

Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says 'the time has come' for such a treaty in wake of sl

In VOA interview, former US top diplomat says Iran conditions its al-Qaida support on terror group f

Top US diplomat says progress being made in talks to rejoin 2015 pact, but some issues remain unreso

Senior US official says US has laid out the concessions it's prepared to make in order to rejoin lan

China's space agency has yet to say whether 'core stage' of huge Long March 5B rocket is being contr

Iran has been weakened, but analysts caution that Washington could still lose leverage in negotiatio

Vast web of restrictions probably won't shrink but could get more efficient, experts say

The stance comes amid intensified insurgent battlefield attacks, since the United States and NATO be

Negotiations are aimed at bringing the United States back into 2015 accord abandoned in 2018 by then

Sen. Tim Scott delivered the Republican response following President Biden's remarks to the joint se

Tehran pledge to enrich uranium up to 60% goes far beyond what it agreed to under 2015 nuclear deal/

Biden administration took no apparent sanctions enforcement action as 3 Iranian tankers delivered ga

VOA/Persian/identifies/the two/apparent/venues for Tuesday's separate talks with world powers

Tehran has ruled out face-to-face bilateral discussions, but the presence of both Iran and the Unite

Several Westerners are detained in Iran/as France and other European allies try to resume nuclear ta

Saudi Arabia's importance to the US goes way beyond oil, analysts say  

President, National Assembly speaker and Senate president are all in their eighties; does it mean th

Jamaica begins vaccinations of top government officials 60 and over

United Nations wants answers about nuclear material at undeclared sites 

Oil came from tanker that was carrying pirated cargo from Iran to Syria last month, Israel's environ

Supporters of 2015 deal tell VOA Persian that Biden will need long-term effort to succeed; opponents

Offer comes following Biden administration's expressed willingness to negotiate

It's first time Iran hints it might relent in its demand that the United States ease economic sancti

Former top US official on Iran Elliott Abrams, who served under President Donald Trump, tells VOA Pe

Germany, France and Britain say Tehran has 'no credible civilian use' for uranium metal

As US turns its back on nuclear energy, China sees growing demand elsewhere as an economic, diplomat

Congressional Democrats want to hold president accountable for role in Capitol riot

Certification of 306-232 Electoral College vote favoring Biden is last step before he is set to be i

President Trump withdrew the United States from the agreement in 2018, arguing it favored Tehran

At the end of last year, it was widely reported that Africa would get its basketball league. Conveni

US sanctions aimed at pressuring Tehran to negotiate stricter curbs on nuclear program

Since 2007, six of the country's top nuclear scientists and researchers have been killed and one has

/Speaking to VOA from Sweden, Ahmad Reza Jalali's wife cited her lawyer as saying authorities ordere

Measure passes in response to Friday's killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

Diplomats and analysts say they aren't expecting Iran to retaliate quickly for the death Friday of t

Analysts tell VOA the killings of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani

Iran's foreign minister blamed Israel for the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

Italian prosecutors investigating 2016 death of Giulio Regeni are reportedly set to request authoriz

The aim would be to readjust them to increase their immediate impact

On Nov. 6, more than two dozen CEOs of major US corporations took part in a video conference to disc

Beijing suspended record-breaking $35 billion stock exchange listing of Ant Group, a spinoff corpora

An omnibus bill passed in early October will attract investors to labor-intensive sectors of the eco

Source tells VOA Persian the 36 protesters from Behbahan city were sentenced to a total of 109 years

In VOA interview, source close to activist Jila Karamzadeh Makvandi said a judge notified Makvandi o

Following poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Germany presses for further sanctions on Moscow

Forecasters believe it could strengthen to hurricane status by late Monday or early Tuesday as it ne

Source close to Navid Afkari's family told VOA Persian that Iran gave no advance warning to wrestler

Authorities in Iran say Navid Afkari killed a man during 2018 anti-government rallies

Nuclear watchdog reports, as of Aug. 25, Tehran had stockpiled 2,105 kilograms of low-enriched urani

United States, after withdrawing two years ago, is now pushing to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran

Manhattan's district attorney is seeking access to Trump's tax returns in connection with a criminal

Leaders and analysts express dismay and disappointment in court's decisions

Fatemeh Maleki told VOA that Iranian authorities were jailing protesters for sympathizing with victi