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Government licensing fees, restrictions challenge press freedom in Guinea-Bissau’s upcoming election coverage

Former US officials, citing contacts with Europe-based drug traffickers, tell VOA there is an uptick in Hezbollah efforts to profit from illegal drug sales this month

The world is experiencing its largest loss of life since the dinosaurs, with around 1 million plant and animal species now threatened with extinction. That's according to the United Nations Environment Program. It's also the focus of this week’s UN Biodiversity Summit where leaders and environmentalists from nearly 200 countries are meeting in Cali, Columbia to debate ways to reverse the trend and save nature. We speak with Tanya Sanerib International Legal Director with the Center for...

Mountain raid carried out with support from U.S.-led counterterrorism coalition

With the help of e-commerce platforms, Chinese traders are flooding the market for U.S. election merchandise with cheaper goods

Russia is learning how to fight the West in Ukraine and sharing its intelligence with China, Iran and other authoritarian powers, says Lieutenant General Charles Costanza, commander of the US Army’s V Corps in Poland

US intelligence officials say new evidence points to Russian and Iranian efforts to incite violence over results of the upcoming election

Biden underscored Ljubljana’s critical role in the August prisoner exchange that saw the release of 24 people, including three high-profile Americans in Russian custody

A rapprochement between Turkey and Egypt, the main supporters of the rival powers in Libya, could offer hope for easing tensions between the Libyan factions. Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul.

The allegations point to a failed plan to assassinate Iranian American Masih Alinejad, a journalist and critic of Iran's repression of women

State-owned telecommunications company starts selling shares to public, in a move aimed at establishing new national stock market and giving Ethiopians a stake in the company, one of the country's largest and most profitable

Group of nations urges China to let in rights monitors to see situation of Uyghur Muslims and Tibetans

Health officials say there have been six cases of polio reported in Ivory Coast in 2023, and one so far this year. It doesn’t seem like many, but any polio cases are cause for concern among health officials trying to completely eradicate the disease. 

Amid rigging concerns from opposition parties, election observers from African Union, SADC and Commonwealth launch mission with call for peaceful elections

Russian anti-war activists found temporary refuge in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, but after a series of arrests and extraditions, they are no longer safe there

Blast happened as people were collecting fuel after vehicle overturned in an accident

A UN study estimates a spike in poverty for the Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied West Bank

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