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Nissan’s share price soared more than 22% in Tokyo after reports citing unnamed sources said it might merge with Honda to form the world’s third-largest automaking group. Honda’s share price fell as much as 3%.

Several hundred people gathered outside the Wisconsin State Capitol for a vigil Tuesday night to honor those slain at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison the day before, with some passing candles to each other and standing close against the winter chill.

The reduction in funding may signal China's more cautious approach to investment in Cambodia after a series of so-far unsuccessful infrastructure projects in the Southeast Asian country.

Zelenskyy has cited an urgent need to boost military aid to Ukraine, especially air defense systems.

Among the nearly 250 exhibitors will be top defense companies, including from the United States, Europe, Turkey and countries at war with each other, such as Israel, Iran, Russia and Ukraine.

An explosion in Moscow Tuesday morning killed Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection troops of the Russian Armed Forces. President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg to be his special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, where Trump has promised to bring a quick end to the war. Denmark released anti-whaling activist Paul Watson from detention on Tuesday and said it had rejected a Japanese request to extradite...

Weeklong mission has turned into 10-month trip

At least 200 people are being treated for injuries at the capital's main hospital

Damaso Lopez Serrano is accused of ordering the 2017 killing of Javier Valdez, who covered the narcotics trade

Following the collapse of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, military rebels and the Israeli military have targeted strongholds throughout the country. VOA's Joan Cabases Vega visited Qatana, Syria, a military base just outside the capital, for this story, narrated by Veronica Villafane.

Teenage girl is identified as the shooter 

National Defense Authorization Act includes measures targeting Chinese drone-makers DJI and Autel Robotics, with concerns over data and national security

International lawyers representing Congo argue that Apple uses minerals pillaged from Congo and laundered through international supply chains, which they say renders the firm complicit in crimes taking place in Congo

Friday deadline looms for one of the final must-pass bills lawmakers will consider prior to new Congress

Ruling parties often have an advantage in elections. But in history's biggest election year so far, incumbents of all political stripes found that presiding over a period of economic inflation carries a heavy price at the ballot box.

It was the fourth wreck this year in the region where many rely on river transportation

China is dominant source of chemical precursors used by Mexican cartels to produce fentanyl

Local authorities said the disease had killed 143 people in the country's Panzi health zone in November