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Authorities searching for survivors amid heavy infrastructure destruction

Anti-corruption agency says this is the greatest number of arrests it has ever made during a single raid; it followed months of intelligence work and surveillance

Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a final rule that will allow U.S. companies that need seasonal workers to more quickly and efficiently fill those jobs.

The European Union's digital rulebook requires safeguards against election interference and manipulation

Treasury Department says that two people hit with sanctions worked through UAE-based front company to facilitate money laundering and cryptocurrency conversion services that funneled illicit proceeds back to Pyongyang

Definition of high treason now to include affiliation with any organization involved in 'activities against security of the Russian Federation'

Rule will provide greater benefits and flexibilities for U.S. employers and specialty occupation workers, helping to meet U.S. labor needs

Towana Looney is the fifth American given a gene-edited pig organ; prior recipients died within two months of receiving a pig kidney or heart

Multi-million dollar deals with Nauru and Papua New Guinea give Australia some power to prevent two island nations from signing security-related deals with China

The United Nations says the HIV/AIDS epidemic could be ended by 2030. But patients need to follow their treatment plans to keep the virus in check. Games could help, as Zaheer Cassim reports from Johannesburg.

Kampala — A Ugandan International Crimes Division Court has ordered the Ugandan government to pay reparations to war crimes victims affected by atrocities committed by former Lord’s Resistance Army commander Thomas Kwoyelo. The judges argue the order is based on both international and domestic law considering Kwoyelo, 50, has no funds. Kwoyelo was captured in 2009 in the Democratic Republic of Congo and held in detention until a court found him guilty in August of murder, kidnap with...

As talks restart for a hostage release and ceasefire in Gaza, the arriving winter means life will get even harder for the two million Palestinians living in the territory. Linda Gradstein in Jerusalem, with Enas Tantesh and Amjed Tantesh in southern Gaza, have this report.

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. VOA's Tatiana Vorozhko looks into Kellogg's vision for ending the war and challenges he might face.

Britain's MI5 security service issued an alert in January 2022, warning that London-based lawyer Christine Lee was knowingly engaged in ‘political interference activities in the UK’

Nuclear power to account for 20% of Japan's 2040 energy supply 

Orbital Lasers and InspeCity to collaborate on in-space services 

Kazatomprom said that Rosatom unit, Uranium One Group, had sold its 49.979% stake in the Zarechnoye mine to SNURDC Astana Mining Company Limited, whose ultimate beneficiary is China's State Nuclear Uranium Resources Development Company

According to the latest official toll, 21 people are confirmed to have been killed by Cyclone Chido, but authorities fear that hundreds, and possibly even thousands, were killed, once the true scale of the toll is revealed