2020-08-14 After Multiple Crises, This Time Lebanese Feel Broken
For nearly a week, Mona Zahran slept on a couch pulled across the front door of her home in Beirut. The powerful explosion in Lebanon’s capital on August 4 had…
2016-01-12 Terror Rips Open Historic Istanbul Square
An explosion in the historic square of Sultanahmet in Istanbul left at least 10 people dead and wounded 15 others Tuesday. “We heard a really big explosion. … I didn’t…
2005-05-24 Learning From a Volcano, 25 Years After Mount St. Helen’s Exploded
(MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I’m Doug Johnson. Twenty-five years ago this month, a volcano exploded…