India's new limits on AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine exports has forced several Asian nations to find new suppliers. 印度对阿斯利康新冠疫苗出口实施的新限制迫使数个亚洲国家开始寻找新的供应商。 The country's Serum Ins...
Leaders of 23 countries and the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday supported an idea to create an international treaty for health emergencies. The treaty would strengthen rules on sharing information. The idea of such a treaty was first sugge...
Violent demonstrations broke out in Senegal earlier this month in protest of injustice and inequality in the country. Artist Omar Ba protested in a different way: he painted. Ba said that what young people are doing in the streets, he is doing in his...
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. In 2020, many people in the United States found an escape by going out into nature and open places. Hiking trails, parks and other outdoor spaces were very busy with people searching for...
A trial of a white former police officer charged with murdering a Black man last year started Monday in Minneapolis, Minnesota. During opening statements, government lawyers showed the video of former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin pressing his kn...
Specialty teams on Monday set free a large container ship that had stopped international trade through the Suez Canal. For nearly one week, the ship has brought one of the world's most important sea trade routes to a complete stop. It held up nearly...
Iraqi Volunteers Join to Rebuild Mosul Library The main library at Mosul University in Iraq opened in 1921. After a donation from 60 of the city's libraries in 1967, its collection grew to nearly 1 million books. The library had books on subjects suc...
Facebook says it is developing a device that would permit users to use their hand to control virtual objects. The device, worn on the wrist, is designed to work with glasses to create an augmented reality, or AR, experience. AR is a technology that u...
Oded Brenner has a great job. He makes chocolate. In the 1990s, he co-created an international chocolate company called Max Brenner Chocolate. His businesses included a 650-square-meter store on Broadway in New York City. Then in 2012, Brenner left t...
Mass Shooters Used Limited US Gun Laws The suspect in the Boulder, Colorado, shooting had been convicted of attacking a classmate. He could still buy a gun. The man accused of opening fire on three businesses in the Atlanta, Georgia, area bought his...
The worlds tallest mountain has been closed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic. 由于新冠病毒大流行，世界最高峰珠穆朗玛峰已经关闭了一年。 But Nepals Mount Everest will be open to visitors again next month. The n...
At the end of every workday, Debra Schwinn gets on a Zoom call. As the new president of Palm Beach Atlantic University in Florida, she is talking to her students. Many of them are alone in quarantine because of the coronavirus. Zoom is an internet-ba...
A German beer maker that usually sells a lot of its alcoholic drink had a problem. In the western city of Dusseldorf, many bars and restaurants are at least partly closed because of COVID-19 restrictions. The rules have been in place since November 2...
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. Today, we are going to talk about the idea of community and neighborhoods. Where we live can make a difference in our happiness. Some people love their neighborhoods just the way they are....
In a room full of Lego pieces, Hoang Dang carefully builds a bright blue, yellow and red fishing boat with a Vietnamese flag. The industrial designer has loved Lego for as long as he can remember. But he only started collecting the objects seriously...
