Month: January 2021

U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping met this week over international security issues. While they report slow progress over major disagreements, what do average citizens in those…

Russian-speaking militants are the second-largest group of foreigners fighting for the Islamic State militant group. Nearly 5,000 fighters from the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan…

The American race for president has put immigration to the top of the national conversation. Some candidates argue that immigrants are a drag on U.S. taxpayers. Illegal immigrants cost the…

Wild horses, oxen and reindeer are returning to Siberia for the first time in 10,000 years. Their new home is Pleistocene Park, a wilderness area on Russia’s Kolyma River. The…

North Korea has jammed GPS signals in South Korea and launched another missile into the Sea of Japan. The action came a day after U.S. President Barack Obama met with…

Australia’s National Coral Bleaching Task force says the country’s Great Barrier Reef is facing the “worst mass bleaching event in its history.” The reef is a United Nations Educational Scientific…

U.S. President Barack Obama opened his final nuclear security summit in Washington on Thursday, expressing concerns over North Korea’s nuclear weapons development and the possibility of dirty bombs from terrorists.…

Some big news today here at VOA Learning English. We are adding new words to our 1,500-word Word Book. The first edition of the Word Book came out in 1962.…

When the Islamic State militants blew up the Temple of Bel in the ancient city of Palmyra in August 2015, experts feared they would destroy many important artifacts from the…

Police and security forces have arrested more than 200 suspected Islamist militants after a suicide bombing in Lahore on Sunday. The attack took place at a crowded public park in…

This is What’s Trending Today. Sarah Arcand is from the Canadian province of Ontario. She works as a teacher in York, a community near the city of Toronto. She and…

South Korea says North Korea fired a short-range missile off its east coast late Tuesday near the North Korean port city of Wonsan. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said…

Former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has rejected President Barack Obama’s efforts to improve relations between the two countries. Castro wrote a column in state-run media, saying, “We do not need…

The widow of a murdered Russian spy continues to try to bring her husband’s killers to justice. Marina Litvinenko is the widow of Alexander Litvinenko. She spoke at the VOA…

More than 50 Yazidi women and children were exchanged last week for Islamic State prisoners held by Kurdish forces in Syria. Two IS commanders were exchanged for the women and…