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President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Brendan Carr to lead the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates communications in the United States. Carr, an FCC commissioner since 2017, has taken aim at big tech and China’s influence on U.S. communications. VOA’s Dora Mekouar reports.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy wrote to President Joe Biden asking for answers; New Jersey’s new senator, Andy Kim, spent Thursday night on a drone hunt in rural northern New Jersey, and posted about it on X

Syrian government has been under strict sanctions by United States, European Union and others for years as a result of Assad’s brutal response to what began as peaceful anti-government protests in 2011 and later spiraled into civil war

The intense tropical cyclone has now made landfall on the east coast of Africa, where aid agencies are warning of more loss of life and severe damage in northern Mozambique

An emergency rescue operation is now underway, Russian officials told state news outlets Sunday

A ministry spokesperson said the guests, aged from 18 to 56, included four Australians, one American and two foreigners who live in Fiji, whose nationalities were not given

Syria's de facto leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa, said on Saturday that Israel was using false pretexts to justify its attacks on Syria, but that he was not interested in engaging in new conflicts as the country focuses on rebuilding

Officials said most schools were opening around the country on Sunday, which is the first day of the working week in most Arab countries

There had been high hopes that the summit hosted by Angola's President Joao Lourenco — the African Union mediator to end the conflict — would end with a deal to end the conflict 

"Europe has been forced to implement America's interests. We reject that," the AfD's Tino Chrupalla told German daily Welt

The fresh sanctions announcement comes a day after the ruling Georgian Dream party installed a hard-right loyalist former Manchester City striker as president

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger say bloc subservient to ex-colonial ruler France

Rebels have been met with a mix of excitement, grief and hope

They spent 19 years in jail in Indonesia

Gentle Carousel Greece faces financial issues

OKAPI WILDLIFE RESERVE, Democratic Republic of Congo — Scattered along the banks of the Ituri River, buildings cram together, cranes transport dirt and debris scatters the soil. The patches of trees are a scant reminder that a forest once grew there. Nestled in eastern Congo's Ituri province, the Chinese-run gold mine is rapidly encroaching on an area that many say it shouldn't be operating in at all - the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, an endangered World Heritage site. The original...

Officials say people waiting for vehicles to ‘slow down enough that they don't get killed’ before throwing themselves in front of or against the cars to fake an accident

Sub-Saharan Africa has long had world's highest dropout rates