WASHINGTON — After making a dramatic escape from Kabul last August, Zarifa Ghafari, once Afghanistan’s youngest female mayor, vowed to return to her native country.“Leaving [Afghanistan] doesn’t mean I’ve left forever,” she told VOA after evacuating to…
From his office in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has appointed ministers to Afghanistan’s de facto government, governors for the 34 provinces, and even a supreme court chief justice through “decr…
The World Health Organization expressed concern Wednesday that many countries are drastically reducing COVID-19 testing, inhibiting the ability of public health professionals to monitor where the coronavirus is, how it’s spreading and how it’s evolving…
A man who received the first heart transplant from a pig two months ago has died, the University of Maryland Medical Center said Wednesday.Doctors did not say the specific reason David Bennett, 57, died Tuesday, only saying his condition had
The U.S. is banning all imports of Russian oil and gas, President Joe Biden announced Tuesday — a move that he said “will deal another powerful blow to Putin’s war machine” as Russian forces under the command of President Vladimir
A growing number of Western businesses are either halting operations in Russia or exiting altogether over that country’s military incursion of neighboring Ukraine.The major hit to Russia’s economy will likely come from the crucial oil and gas industry….
Hammered by climate change and relentless deforestation, the Amazon rainforest is losing its capacity to recover and could irretrievably transition into savannah, with dire consequences for the region and the world, according to a study published Monda…
Chocolate makers are expected to raise prices this year due to higher costs of cocoa from exporters like Ivory Coast, the world’s largest cocoa producer.Hershey, the largest producer of chocolate products in the United States, said last month it will
