Among the many stories of World War Two, Nazi Germany's Siege of Leningrad – the Soviet city now known as Russia's Saint Petersburg – stands among the most harrowing. It also helped shape the world we live in today, as Charles Maynes reports for VOA, from St.
The State Department is calling on Israel and the Palestinians to de-escalate the tensions that have currently turned violent and deadly between both sides. (May 11)
A senior official from China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region says he expects foreign media can avoid biases, prejudices and negative preconceptions when reporting on the autonomous region, adding that Xinjiang welcomes all international visitors to come.
Last fall, World Health Organization leaders said they had no specifics of sexual exploitation claims against aid workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But an Associated Press Investigation shows that was not true. (May 11)
A Columbus, Ohio, police officer shot and killed a Black teenage girl after she allegedly attempted to cut two females with a knife, according to officials and body camera footage. The bodycam footage has been put in slow motion and blurred by the Columbus Division of Police.
The U.S. is expanding use of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to children as young as 12. Jane Ellen Norman says she's looking forward to a little more freedom in her life and a possible return to summer camp after getting her first dose in Atlanta.
Gas stations running low on petrol in the wake of the cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline, which delivers about 45% of the fuel consumed on the East Coast. (May 11)
President Joe Biden is highlighting new efforts to encourage Americans to get COVID-19 shots, including free rides to and from vaccination sites, as the pace of shots nationally declines and he looks to meet his July Fourth inoculation targets.
A coroner in Northern Ireland has ruled that the British army used "clearly disproportionate" force during violence nearly 50 years ago in which ten civilians were shot dead. At a hearing into the deaths in Ballymurphy, west Belfast, over three days in August 1971, Judge Siobhan Keegan said: "All of the deceased in this series of inquests were entirely innocent of any wrongdoing.
Just days after a cyberattack hit the operator of a major U.S. fuel pipeline, a Senate panel examined U.S. cybersecurity vulnerabilities and what the federal government needs to do to combat them. (May 11)
Dr. Anthony Fauci sparred with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) during a Senate hearing on combating the Covid-19 pandemic.
