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17 others injured

His Botswana Democratic Party was trailing in fourth place in parliamentary elections

Storm hit Taiwan as a typhoon

Firecracker smoke worsens air quality

Kurds are town’s largest minority group

Sunni lawmaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadan takes position for the second time

Being outwardly political can reflect on their school or endanger potential endorsement deals

Ukraine is targeting North Korean soldiers deployed in Russia, a high-ranking Ukraine official stressed

Deadly airstrikes continue amid cease-fire talks between Israel and Hezbollah, and a look at Iran’s strategy. An update from Kyiv, and a look at the upcoming U.S. elections. The saga of Kenya’s impeached deputy president goes on, and celebrations for a hometown hero of the World Series in Japan.

Oregon identifies three new cases after people traveled to the state from Washington while infected

Russian media portray Maxim Shugaley as an innocent sociologist, but his history paints a different picture

Roughly 6% of eligible U.S. voters in upcoming vote have served in the military

The country, which loses about $500 million annually to cybercrime, has launched a new tool to combat it

Outside experts saw claim as propaganda, though test did show  advancement in North's quest to build more reliable weapons arsenal 

One survivor of forced marriage spoke to VOA, as rights groups say such experiences are all too common

Lawsuit comes after Trump called for the network to lose its broadcasting license

Decades of conflict with Burma's military regimes, beginning with Karenni's fight for independence in 1957, have left the region deeply scarred

Xiaolei Wu, former Berklee College of Music student sentenced to prison for threatening Chinese classmate, was returned to China in early September