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Sea levels around the Seychelles are rising about 3 millimeters per year, says Environment Minister Flavien Joubert.

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik to be his United Nations ambassador. VOA U.N. Correspondent Margaret Besheer looks at the representative’s rising career and what lies ahead.

Sovaleni has butted heads with Tonga's influential King Tupou VI, fueling speculation of a deepening rift between the royals and his government

The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) did not elaborate on how Nvidia might have violated China's anti-monopoly laws  

Music icon Brenda Lee released “Brenda Lee Greatest Hits” in September of this year.  The album features 15 tracks remastered from original production tapes and is now available digitally as well as on vinyl in an exclusive blue marble color. Brenda Lee Greatest Hits features top songs including “I’m Sorry,” Lee’s first No. 1 single (1960), “Sweet Nothin’s” and the No. 1 track “I Want To Be Wanted” (1960). Eleven of the tracks featured on the album were in the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100...

Critics of FIFA say a Saudi-hosted World Cup risks repeating rights abuses seen during a decade of similar preparations for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar

Authorities deported Pen Chan Sangkream, Hong An, Mean Chanthon, Yin Chanthou, Soeung Khunthea and Vorn Chanratchana last month   

Israeli officials say drone likely from Yemen hits central Israel 

Taiwan's defense ministry said it detected Chinese naval and coast guard ships entering the Taiwan Strait and the western Pacific and that China had restricted airspace along its southeast coast through Wednesday 

According to report, more than three-quarters of the world's land experienced drier conditions from 1970 to 2020 than the previous thirty-year period

Russia says it shot down 13 Ukrainian drones

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — South Korea’s defense ministry insisted that President Yoon Suk Yeol remained in charge of the country’s armed forces on Monday, even as the justice ministry enforced a travel ban against him following his attempt to declare martial law last week.  The developments deepened what legal scholars described as an extraordinary constitutional crisis. Although Yoon is being investigated for treason, and the head of his own party has said he would no longer be involved in...

Dozens of emergency workers, along with 15 coast guard vessels and six helicopters, were mobilized to search for the missing passenger

The declaration gave investigators more resources, information and legal powers to pursue the three suspects, police said

The election was so divisive, many American voters went to the polls with a feeling that the opposing candidate was an existential threat to the nation

Blinken: US supports ‘peaceful transition’

Bashar Assad the longtime, iron-fisted ruler of Syria, has fled the country as rebels capture Damascus. The civil war lasted nearly 14 years, but what comes next is still uncertain. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump met with French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris. A look at trade tariffs: who benefits and who loses? Plus, the latest from South Korea, and the manhunt in New York for the suspect in the killing of the CEO of a large health...