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Zelenskyy hints at ‘intensive’ talks with Trump as US, Ukraine discuss peace deal

Voice of America’s immigration news - February 8, 2025 - 05:41
Trump said he’s likely to meet with Zelenskyy next week

Baltics begin decoupling from Russian power grid

Voice of America’s immigration news - February 8, 2025 - 03:32
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania integrating with Europe’s system

Rwandan, Congolese leaders to meet over eastern DRC conflict

Voice of America’s immigration news - February 8, 2025 - 03:01
M23 armed group has seized territory in the mineral-rich eastern DRC

Stradivari violin made in 1714 sells for $11.3M

Voice of America’s immigration news - February 8, 2025 - 02:29
The instrument is believed to have influenced Johannes Brahms when he wrote 'Violin Concerto in D Major'

Alaska lawmakers ask Trump to retain Denali's name, not change it to Mount McKinley

Voice of America’s immigration news - February 8, 2025 - 02:29
Trump, on his first day in office, signed an executive order calling for the name to revert to Mount McKinley

North Korea says its nuclear weapons not a 'bargaining chip' as Trump, Ishiba meet

Voice of America’s immigration news - February 8, 2025 - 02:28
Two leaders expressed their commitment to ensuring North Korea ends its nuclear weapons program

US approves sale of $7.4B in bombs, missiles to Israel

Voice of America’s immigration news - February 8, 2025 - 02:06
Transactions still need to be approved by Congress

US Justice Department disbands teams investigating corruption, election interference

Voice of America’s immigration news - February 8, 2025 - 00:42
New Attorney General Pam Bondi sharply reorients DOJ's priorities to focus on drug cartels, transnational crime

Hamas set to release 3 Israeli hostages as ceasefire deal holds

Voice of America’s immigration news - February 8, 2025 - 00:37
Trump sees US takeover of Gaza as a ‘real estate transaction’

Wreckage of missing Alaska plane found; no survivors

Voice of America’s immigration news - February 7, 2025 - 23:42
Plane was flying just south of the Arctic Circle when it went missing

Sweden wants to tighten gun laws after mass shooting

Voice of America’s immigration news - February 7, 2025 - 23:26
Swedish lawmakers want protection from the AR-15, a rifle used in several US mass shootings

Trump, Ishiba declare ‘new golden age’ for US-Japan ties

Voice of America’s immigration news - February 7, 2025 - 22:56
Japanese prime minister's visit comes amid Trump’s early foreign policy moves that rattled allies

19 states sue to stop DOGE from accessing Americans' personal data

Voice of America’s immigration news - February 7, 2025 - 20:59
Treasury Department records contain sensitive personal data such as Social Security and bank account numbers for millions

Trump orders freeze of aid to South Africa, cites country's land expropriation law

Voice of America’s immigration news - February 7, 2025 - 20:58
White House says law amounts to discrimination against country's white minority

The debate over US foreign aid

Voice of America’s immigration news - February 7, 2025 - 20:05
The Trump administration has shuttered the United States Agency for International Development, known as USAID. Most of the foreign aid that the U.S. distributes flowed from this agency. The U.S. State Department will take over the distribution of aid. Some people think the aid should be cut altogether and others say it should continue. We talk to both sides; Alex Nowrasteh at the CATO Institute and Michael O'Hanlon at the Brookings Institution.

US homeland security leader official set to visit Guantanamo Bay

Voice of America’s immigration news - February 7, 2025 - 19:51
Kristi Noem says Thursday's flight to US naval base in Cuba 'transported murderers & vicious gang members out of American streets'

Casino mogul asks US Supreme Court to revisit landmark defamation rule 

Voice of America’s immigration news - February 7, 2025 - 19:16
Court established stringent limit on defamation claims by public figures more than 60 years ago in its New York Times v. Sullivan decision

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