The U.S. Senate has confirmed Antony Blinken to be the secretary of state, paving the way for the Biden administration's eventual reversal of the Trump administration's isolationist policies. Blinken was confirmed by a 72-22 vote to serve as the coun...
This is VOA news. Via remote, I'm Marissa Melton. (From) For the first time since his inauguration, U.S. President Joe Biden spoke Tuesday with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, expressing concerns about the arrest of dissident Alexei Navalny, Moscow's...
The office of the French president said Sunday that French President Emmanuel Macron and new U.S. President Joe Biden are in agreement on climate change and how to fight coronavirus. The two leaders spoke by phone on Sunday, also discussing their wil...
This is VOA news. Via remote, I'm Marissa Melton. The Kremlin in Russia on Sunday accused the United States of interfering in Russia's domestic affairs and downplayed the scale of the weekend's protests, when tens of thousands rallied in support of j...
This is VOA news. Reporting by remote, I'm David Byrd. President Joe Biden has signed a series of executive orders aimed at stemming the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. AP's Sagar Meghani reports. His essentially serving notice that the re...
The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech is likely to protect against more infectious variant of the virus, which was discovered in Britain and has spread around the world. Reuters Emer McCarthy reports. The encouraging results from an a...
This is VOA news. Reporting by remote, I'm David Byrd. In his first hours as president, Joe Biden struck at the heart of President Donald Trump's policy legacy, signing executive actions that reverse his predecessor's orders on climate change and han...
Next, an editorial reflecting American ideals and institutions. On January 20th, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. will be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States of America. Once inaugurated, he will be, at 78 years and 61 days old, the oldest...
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine's party said Sunday that it would challenge his loss in the recent presidential election. Wine's National Unity Party said they have evidence of ballot stuffing and other forms of election malpractice. Uganda's ele...
This is VOA news. Via remote, I'm Liz Parker. Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was detained Sunday in Moscow. The opposition leader was taken into custody during his first time back in Russia since he was poisoned last August. Navalny was traveling from...
The head of Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden should bring fundamental change to American policy on human rights and allow criminal investigations of President Donald Trump to show that the president is not abov...
This is VOA news. Reporting by remote, I'm David Byrd. The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday made Donald Trump the first U.S. president ever to be impeached twice, formally charging him with inciting an insurrection in a vote held a week aft...
A top British police official says officers have issued about 45,000 fines for COVID-19 restriction violations and they will continue to issue more to keep the infection from spreading. The chair of Britain's National Police Chiefs' Council, Martin H...
This is VOA news. Via remote, I'm Liz Parker. The debate continues on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. over a Democratic-led effort to remove President Donald Trump from office. Democratic lawmakers accuse him of inciting supporters who stormed and at...
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will attend President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration. That's according to a senior administration official this weekend. On Friday, President Donald Trump said he would not attend the inauguration of his successor on Ja...
