Eric Lombard, 66, the head of Caisse des Depots, the investment arm of the French government, became finance minister ...

Go beyond the headlines with VOA's Flashpoint Ukraine. Each weekday at 2105 UTC, VOA's Steve Miller puts the latest ...

International success of Zambian footballers Barbra Banda and Racheal Kundananji is inspiring girls and young women in ...

The country’s interior ministry has established a special security team to deal with the growing number of cases of sexual ...

Analysts also believe the India-China rapprochement will not affect India’s strategic cooperation with the United States.

The magnitude 9 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami on Dec. 26, 2004, killed over 230,000 people in 15 countries. The Indonesian province of Aceh was especially hard hit. Twenty years on, VOA’s ...

October election sparked massive protests and opposition accusations of vote-rigging ...

Sentences were converted to life in prison without parole. Biden’s action could frustrate President-elect Donald Trump's plan ...

Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso rejected the six-month withdrawal period granted by the Economic Community of West African States before their definitive withdrawal, seeing it as an external "attempt at ...

Move would end a yearslong investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct with minors and use of illicit drugs while the ...

Mangione, 26, was shackled and seated in a Manhattan court when he leaned over to a microphone to enter his plea ...

In his first term as U.S. president, Donald Trump tightened economic sanctions against North Korea to try to force Pyongyang ...