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After Ukraine staged its biggest-ever drone attack on Moscow, which coincided with the U.S.-Ukrainian talks in Saudi Arabia, VOA Russian spoke to regional experts who saw it as Kyiv's signal to Vladimir Putin to convince him to agree to a ceasefire. However, as the Kremlin mulls its response and Washington says that the ball is in Moscow's court, experts are skeptical that Putin is keen to sign the immediate ceasefire deal and Moscow may see Ukraine's drone attack as a sign of...

Trump said he would he would respond to retaliatory tariffs announced Wednesday by the European Union, of which Ireland is a member

Key details remain as to how stitch back together the country fractured after 14 years of war

U.S. President Donald Trump's increased tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports took effect on Wednesday "with no exceptions or exemptions," escalating the global trade war. Trump's increased tariffs campaign to reorder global trade norms in favor of the U.S. drew swift retaliation. China, the EU, Canada and others have reacted to the with retaliatory tariffs of their own. Canada imposed retaliatory tariffs on 21 billion U.S. goods. We speak with John W. Diamond, Senior Fellow in Public...

After hundreds of people were killed in massacres in Syria last week, locals say calls for justice may give the country a chance to stabilize. But as Heather Murdock reports with VOA's camera crew in the Jableh district of Syria, analysts say a humanitarian crisis feeds continued insecurity.

The drills took place in the Gulf of Oman near the strategic Strait of Hormuz

Democratic Republic of Congo officials have not confirmed the talks

Doctors have reported that Pope Francis is no longer in imminent danger of death

Following the recent attacks carried out against civilians in the Alawite-majority region in Syria’s coastal region, many Kurds are expressing fears that Syria is heading into yet a new wave of violence, especially targeting the country’s ethnic and religious minorities. In the city of Kobani in northern Syria, residents said the attacks against Alawites in western Syria were reminiscent of Islamic State atrocities against Yazidis in Sinjar, Iraq, and Syrian Kurds in Kobani. Click here...

The lawsuit alleged that Southwest Key Programs employees sexually abused unaccompanied minors

The US also places sanctions on the Foxtrot Network's leader, Rawa Majid

Negotiators heading to Russia to secure President Putin’s agreement

The ‘high-threat illegal aliens’ and others were taken from Guantanamo to Louisiana

U.S. President Donald Trump said last week he had sent a letter to Khamenei proposing nuclear talks

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services assisted in the investigation of a recent Justice Department announcement of a Broward County resident arraigned on a federal indictment charging her with submission of a fraudulent asylum applications to USCIS.

Dmitry Kiselyov, CEO of the Russia state-owned media group MIA Rossiya Segodnya, mocked Europe's military capacity and questioned its ability to increase aid to Ukraine. VOA’s Leonid Martynyuk explains why that is false and misleading.

Estimates of the death toll during Duterte's presidential term vary from 6,000 to 30,000

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