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Published: May 18, 2018 At least eight people were killed in an active shooter situation Friday morning at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, according to Ed Gonzalez, the sheriff in neighboring Harris County. "Could be anywhere between eight...

Published: May 16, 2018 GAZA — At least five bomb blasts hit Gaza early Thursday morning local time. One person is believed to have been injured. VOA heard the blasts and a few ambulances racing down the streets in the minutes following. Locals...

Dozens of Palestinians were killed and more than 2,000 wounded in clashes with Israeli forces Monday along the Gaza border as thousands demonstrated against the opening of a new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. While U.S. and Israeli officials celebrated...

VOA News Published SEOUL — North Korea said Saturday that it will dismantle its nuclear test site between May 23 and 25, in a dramatic event that would set up leader Kim Jong Un's summit with President Donald Trump next month. In a statement...

U.S.-supported Syrian forces have launched a new offensive to remove Islamic State from the militants’ last stronghold, the oil-rich eastern province of Deir al-Zour. The Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias, Global...

VOA News Published: April 26, 2018 SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — Final preparations are underway for Friday’s historic third summit between the leaders of North and South Korea. In the morning, North Korea Leader Kim Jong Un will cross the military...

VOA News Published: April 24, 2018 A motorist suspected of killing 10 people by driving a van down a sidewalk in Toronto is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday. Canadian police have been looking for a motive behind Monday's attack that also...

VOA News Published: 4/23/2018 Police said Monday they have caught the man suspected of shooting six people, four of them fatally, at a chain restaurant in the southern state U.S. state of Tennessee the day before. Nashville police chief Steve...

VOA News Published: April 22, 2018 Police are searching for a partially nude man who killed at least four people in a shooting spree early Sunday morning in the southern U.S. state of Tennessee. The suspect, identified by Nashville Metro police as...

VOA News Published: April 20, 2018 GENEVA — The International Organization for Migration says it does not have money to protect Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, from the impending regional monsoons and cyclonic storms. Monsoon rains...