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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

'More olive branches of peace, less sour grapes of conflict', mayor says 

The country’s liberal opposition-controlled parliament voted to impeach Yoon last Saturday over his short-lived Dec. 3 martial law imposition, suspending his presidential powers until the Constitutional Court determines whether to uphold or overturn the decision

US has said war must bring end to Hamas control, but with Israeli forces leaving too 

Sanctions target North Korean banks, generals, Russian trade firms shipping oil 

President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached on Saturday over his martial law decree and suspended from his presidential duties

The diplomatic mission was vandalized following the ouster of Tehran ally Bashar al-Assad 

Igor Kirillov led the Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defence Forces 

French, German diplomats engaging with Syrian transitional leaders following Assad ouster