Mohamad Hafez, an architect who designs skyscrapers, is better known as the artist who builds replicas of war torn homes
The year-long Kosovo War — the final in a series of Balkan wars in the 1990s — has left in its wake simmering ethnic tensions and complexities
In Pakistan, where 2.5 million children are not in school, thousands of ghost schools are making matters worse
At least 420 violations against press freedoms in the country. That is according to the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation
Why do shooters target students and young people, and does it give international students and their families pause before applying to U.S. schools? VOA NEWS
The small town of Utqiagvik, Alaska, is the northernmost town in the United States. Entertainment is scarce and so is the list of jobs. A lot of locals still hunt and fish, and there is room for art here as well. As Natasha Mozgovaya reports, indigenous carvers have been creating beautiful figurines, intricate miniature …
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A new village has been built specifically for women in northern Syria’s Rojava region. The name of the village is Jinwar, which means a place for women in Kurdish. It has 30 identical houses, each of which is made from red clay. VOA’s Zana Omer visited the village and filed this report, narrated by Bezhan …
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People now go to experience the old Wild West complete with staged gunfights
Marijuana activists say this could just be the beginning and that the famous plant could do much more for the national economy
Somalia’s 30 years of chronic conflict have left an estimated 1 in 3 people affected by mental health issues, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).