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Thomas Mackintosh & Merlyn Thomas BBC News Getty Images Voice of America launched in 1942 which a mandate to combat Nazi and Japanese propaganda Donald Trump has signed an executive order to strip back the global, independent and federally funded…

At least 59 people were killed and another 155 were injured when a fire broke out overnight in a nightclub in North Macedonia, the country’s interior minister, Panche Toshkovski, said on Sunday. Mr. Toshkovski told a news conference that the…

A resident in Tylertown, Mississippi, filmed the moment a tornado tore past his home. Six deaths were reported in the state, with a total of at least 34 people killed in the south-east of the US. The deadly tornadoes flipped…

The deadly bombardment of severe storms that spawned tornadoes and dust storms across the Midwest and South is expected to sweep across the East Coast on Sunday. The system, which has killed at least 34 people, is expected to unleash…

At least 51 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in a nightclub fire in North Macedonia, according to the interior ministry. The blaze broke out in the early hours of Sunday at the Pulse club in Kocani,…

In most countries, working as a housekeeper or nanny is a relatively safe profession. Yet as we traveled across Kenya and Uganda, from crowded and poor urban neighborhoods to far-flung farming villages, we heard many variations on the same horror…

With the set at 1-1, and the game 15-15, the ball was judged by umpire Mohamed Lahyani to have bounced twice before Draper reached a drop shot. It was clearly a wrong call from the official, but players now have…

Columbia University is now the epicenter of the American culture war. The Trump administration is targeting a former Columbia student — and the university itself — as a test case for its new authoritarian regime. The story of Columbia isn’t…

Watch: Moment SpaceX launches rocket with crew to relieve stranded astronauts A SpaceX rocket carrying a new crew has docked at the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a plan to bring astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams home.…

The annual Gridiron Club dinner in Washington on Saturday featured jokes about President Trump, the breakdown of the global order, Russia, Democrats’ uncertain future and, of course, Elon Musk. One of the headliners was Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland, a…