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China jails former national football coach for 20 years for bribery

Voice of America’s immigration news - December 13, 2024 - 04:10
He pleaded guilty to bribery and corruption in March of this year

Blinken talks with Turkey's top diplomat about Syrian rebels

Voice of America’s immigration news - December 13, 2024 - 03:58
Erdogan says Turkey would never ease up in the fight against rebels from the Islamist State group in Syria

Russia launches massive aerial attack on Ukrainian infrastructure

Voice of America’s immigration news - December 13, 2024 - 02:48
Russian military targets Ukrainian power grid, Ukraine official says

South Korea opposition leader says impeaching Yoon best way to restore order

Voice of America’s immigration news - December 13, 2024 - 02:00
Parliamentary vote on impeachment set for Saturday

‘We have nowhere to go’: Exiled from Myanmar, journalists fear new Thai law

Voice of America’s immigration news - December 13, 2024 - 01:46
Media professionals who fled war in Myanmar question whether new Thai law will make it impossible for them to keep reporting

US charges ex-head of Syrian prison with torture

Voice of America’s immigration news - December 13, 2024 - 00:46
He allegedly ran a prison where detainees were subjected to horrific abuse

Malawi president appeals for international food aid

Voice of America’s immigration news - December 12, 2024 - 23:48
Severe food shortages affect more than one quarter of the country’s population

VOA Kurdish: Kurdish activists claim prisoners still being held in Afrin

Voice of America’s immigration news - December 12, 2024 - 23:32
Since the Assad regime’s entry into Damascus, prisons across Syria were opened, but Kurdish activists claim that many Afrinis remain imprisoned by armed groups, with their fates unknown. Click here for the full story in Kurdish.     

American imprisoned in Assad's Syria calls his release from prison a 'blessing'

Voice of America’s immigration news - December 12, 2024 - 23:21
Travis Timmerman said he was released by ‘liberators’ who arrived in Damascus a day after longtime ruler fled

China-Russia Arctic cooperation a US national security concern

Voice of America’s immigration news - December 12, 2024 - 23:02
Other NATO members are responding to increased military activities of Russia and China in Arctic

It’s all diplomatic hands on deck in the Middle East.

Voice of America’s immigration news - December 12, 2024 - 22:30
It’s all diplomatic hands on deck in the Middle East as Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Jordan Thursday for talks with Jordanian and Turkish officials about the fall of the Syrian regime, and top Biden aides are pushing for a ceasefire in Gaza. A look at how U.S. foreign assistance is allocated and where it goes, French President Emanuel Macron is in Poland for meeting about security in Ukraine. Plus, what is "birthright citizenship" and what would happen if President-elect Donald...

San Francisco names street for Associated Press Iwo Jima photographer

Voice of America’s immigration news - December 12, 2024 - 21:26
Joe Rosenthal won the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic photo of US Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima during World War II

Millions mark Mexico's Virgin of Guadalupe Day, but calls for a truce in drug violence go unheeded 

Voice of America’s immigration news - December 12, 2024 - 21:23
Enormous crowds gather at Mexico City's Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe to honor the virgin on the 493rd anniversary of her apparition in 1531

Trump offers support for dockworkers, says ports shouldn't install more automated systems

Voice of America’s immigration news - December 12, 2024 - 21:14
Dockworkers' contract expires next month at Eastern and Gulf Coast ports

Environmental groups condemn new laws threatening soybean restrictions in Brazil's Amazon

Voice of America’s immigration news - December 12, 2024 - 21:05
Soy moratorium was landmark voluntary agreement banning trade in soybeans from recently deforested areas

Impeaching Yoon best way to restore order, S. Korean opposition leader says

Voice of America’s immigration news - December 12, 2024 - 20:47
Yoon Suk Yeol's move to impose military rule on December 3 was rescinded within six hours, but it plunged the country into a constitutional crisis

US announces new arms aid package for Ukraine worth $500 million

Voice of America’s immigration news - December 12, 2024 - 20:37
Washington said 10 days ago it would send Ukraine $725 million worth of missiles, ammunition, anti-personnel mines and other weapons

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