The Republican nominee’s preoccupation with dictators, and his disdain for the American military, is deepening. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial in Belleau, France, in November 2018. [Shealah Craighead | White House] In April 2020, Vanessa Guillén, a 20-year-old Army private, was bludgeoned to death by a fellow soldier at Fort Hood, in Texas. The killer, aided by

JERUSALEM — Fighting raged on two fronts Sunday as Israel targeted what it said was a Hezbollah "command center" in the Lebanese capital,...

The Amu Darya, seen near Nukus, Karakalpakstan's capital in Uzbekistan, July 27, 2024. [Navbahor Imamova | VOA] Termez, Uzbekistan — The Amu Darya, one of two main rivers that for millennia fed the now rapidly shrinking Aral Sea, no longer does. Reporting by VOA along the length of the river in Uzbekistan has confirmed that every drop of water from the Amu Darya — formed by the convergence of the Vakhsh and Panj rivers in the mountains between Afghanistan and Tajikistan — is

The home ministry said that no cases can be filed against students and people who actively took part in the mass uprising of July-August. A notification, signed by Faisal Hasan, senior information officer of the ministry, was issued to this end. According to the notification, a new journey has begun towards building a discrimination-free new Bangladesh through the fall of the autocratic government on August 5. "The students and people who actively worked for the movement on t

Seyla Benhabib’s 2024 Adorno Prize lecture. Theodor Adorno (left), Hannah Arendt (right). [Getty Images] On September 11, Seyla Benhabib was awarded the Theodor W. Adorno Prize of the City of Frankfurt, whose past laureates have included Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, and Jürgen Habermas. This is an abridged version of the lecture Benhabib delivered in German on that occasion. I. I first arrived in Frankfurt, in this city of immigrants and exiles, in the fall of 1980, as a

People look at a giant screen showing news footage of military drills conducted in the Taiwan Strait and areas to the north, south and east of Taiwan, by the Eastern Theatre Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), in Beijing, China October 14, 2024. [REUTERS | Tingshu Wang] TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China employed a record 125 aircraft, as well as its Liaoning aircraft carrier and ships, in large-scale military exercises surrounding Taiwan and its outlying islands

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Monday called for creating a "safe zone guaranteed by the UN" for the displaced people in...

Judges say unfairly dismissed academic David Miller’s views on Israel should be protected by antidiscrimination laws In February the tribunal ruled that Prof David Miller was unfairly discriminated against when he was dismissed by the University of Bristol. [Ben Birchall | PA] The belief that Israel’s actions amount to apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide are “worthy of respect in a democratic society”, an employment tribunal has concluded in a landmark decision. In Febru

Israeli soldiers and Palestinian former detainees say troops have regularly forced captured Gazans to carry out life-threatening tasks,...

Amid escalating hostilities in Myanmar sparked by a 2021 military coup that have plunged millions into a deepening humanitarian crisis,...