VOA Connect Episode 82 – Before there was the Internet, there was Tradio – the local radio program to help people buy, sell or trade just about anything. Also this week, a look at groups sharing cultures and food, …
Radio is alive and well in middle America. In one small town in Nebraska, one of the most popular radio programs is called ‘Swap Shop,’ where listeners call in to sell or trade items on the air for free. It’s …
Members of the Belegarth Medieval Combat Society like to fight each other with swords made of foam. Participants dress up in costume and attack each other like medieval hordes of yore. And some of them don’t even really know how …
If you like mysteries, you’ll love the Escape Room. It’s a live-action game where players use clues and solve tasks to escape from a room in a limited amount of time. VOA Ukrainian; Reporter: Maxim Moskalkov, Camera: Andrey Degtyarev; …
The leader of Italy’s ruling League party, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, declared the governing coalition to be unworkable on Thursday after months of internal bickering and said the only way forward was to hold fresh elections. The shock announcement …
The U.N. human rights chief says she is “deeply worried” the new U.S. sanctions on Venezuela’s regime are too broad and will make things worse for the suffering population. Michelle Bachelet said Thursday that there is lots of evidence to …
U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon M. Huntsman Jr. will resign from his post effective Oct. 3 — capping a tumultuous two-year tenure in Moscow defined by sinking bilateral relations, despite efforts to stem the damage. “American citizenship is a privilege …
Security forces killed at least 17 suspected militants in raids in Cairo and in another province, Egypt officials said Thursday, four days after a car filled with explosives wrecked outside the county’s main cancer hospital, killing at least 20 people …