Saeed Masouri, who marked 20 years in Iranian prisons this month, got a life sentence for supporting

Some boys seen by Reuters said they had escaped from the forest where the gunmen took them, but it w

Man is scheduled to be executed Thursday for his participation in a double murder when he was 18

They ask for Maduro to free the men so they can return home to their families

Health workers say if patients do not get antiretroviral drugs they need, they put themselves at ris

Antony Blinken is a longtime Biden adviser and foreign policy veteran

Maduro mocks Trump on his apparent election defeat

The leaders in the northern Tigray region are accused of treason and terrorism

Officials say the approaching cold season could create 'a human tragedy' for thousands of residents

Central Asian shepherd dog praised as part of Turkmenistan's national heritage

Somber remembrances were held from London to Paris and at many places along the former Western Front

Turnout was roughly 50%, with 14.8 million people voting after 29 million registered

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed Ankara has started testing of the Russian-made syst

Anger persists after Nigerian president fails to condemn police killings of peaceful protesters

Jovenel Moise says his comment aims to reassure university students who took to the streets to deman

Somali mother and daughter honored with a $1 million prize

Irina Slavina tied herself to bench near Interior Ministry in Nizhny Novgorod and set herself on fir

Democratic challenger and his wife Jill send thoughts to President Donald Trump, his opponent in Nov

Allama Shah Ahmad Shafi, who had led the hardline Hefazat-e-Islam group since it was formed in 2010,

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

Kenosha, Wisconsin, has been rocked by civil unrest and violence since Sunday, when police shot Blak

Anti-corruption crusader Alexey Navalny is in serious condition at a Siberian hospital after falling

Fighting is mainly between nomadic settlers or herders and farmers; issues around land use and owner

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

August 14 marks comfort women memorial day, declared in 2017

Beirut explosion victims remembered in Chile vigil//

Experts said there was no legal basis in antitrust law for such a payment, and an adviser appeared t

Four-person group, Bizonto, arrested after performing a skit lampooning government; comedians have n

Events celebrating life of congressman, civil rights icon start in his Alabama hometown

Release took place after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met the hostagetaker's demand

The former head of Mexico's state oil company could be extradited from Spain to face corruption char

Brazil's leader must do what he had derided, while Iran's leader calls for ban on big gatherings to

Socialist Party leader self-quarantines

Surge comes as the country has allowed businesses to reopen to stave off economic disaster

City plans to paint Black Lives Matter in giant letters on the street

//Filing a 'cease and desist' motion, family says it does not condone a campaign of hate' using the

Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi calls on forces from each of Libya's rival governments to observe a cease-fire

Wanchalearm Satsaksit is the ninth Thai activist in exile to have gone missing in a nearby country s

The global pandemic is forcing leaders to govern during a crisis; some are getting high marks for pr

The public returned to St Peter's Square to receive Pope Francis's blessing from his window for the

It would be the fifth two-week extension to the state of emergency

An Iran-based source told VOA Persian that the prisons chief of Razavi Khorasan province filed a com

Baris Terkoglu and Hulya Kilinc were detained this week after a video was published on the OdaTV web

Death of Expediency Council member Mohammad Mirmohammadi comes as Iran announced virus has killed 66

On Twitter, Guaido described the search of Juan Jose Marquez's home as another act of persecution by

On Tuesday, the Treasury Department blocked US companies from doing business with Rosneft Trading SA

South Sudan President Salva Kiir was named the top 'spoiler of peace' in a new award that seeks to s

Prime Minister Abddalla Hamdok's remarks were latest in a flurry of comments from government officia

Tunisian politicians have been struggling to build a new government since an inconclusive election l

Students in Indian Capital Voice Concerns about Bharatiya Janata Party's Hindu nationalist Agenda

Blowback from Mahathir Mohamad's rebuke of India over Kashmir and Muslim migrants is likely to hit h

Marches planned for Saturday in Washington and in cities across the United States

Jury selection in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial concluded Friday after an arduous two-week process,