Feb 20 2025 Vance delivers warning to Europe at conservative gathering

Changing attitudes toward the long-standing US-European alliance are on display at the annual conference [Read More]

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Feb 20 2025 Washington’s former ambassador to Kyiv weighs in

VOA speaks with Washington’s former ambassador to Kyiv about the recent tension in the relationship and the way forward to a peace plan. Ukrainians react to President Trump’s disparaging statements about President Zelenskyy. An update on the fragile peace between Israel and Hamas. The Conservative Political Action Conference is underway in the United States, and [...]

 

Feb 20 2025 VOA Kurdish: Derik residents speak of social justice

On the International Day of Social Justice, residents of Derik, in northern and eastern Syria, approach the day with different perspectives. While some say that justice has improved since the former regime’s rule in the region ended, others say that the justice they dream of has still not been achieved.
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Feb 20 2025 US Senate Republicans push to pass border bill without Trump tax cuts

Democrats lack the votes to stop the bill but have vowed to fight it as long as possible, accusing Republicans of shortchanging American families to benefit the wealthy with tax breaks [Read More]

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Feb 20 2025 VOA Kurdish: Kobani residents face dire economic conditions

In Kobani, due to the recent military confrontation between Turkish-backed groups and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), trade roads were closed, and the lack of goods and materials has affected the daily life of residents. Factories are suffering heavy losses and unemployment is rising.
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Feb 20 2025 VOA Kurdish: Afrin IDPs in Qamishli fear returning home

As Syrian Arab refugees in the Kurdish city of Afrin return to their homes in Damascus and elsewhere, displaced Afrinis are afraid to return to their city.
According to official statistics from the Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria, there are more than 120,000 displaced people from Afrin, 3,000 families of whom are in Qamishli.
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Feb 20 2025 US small businesses brace for effects of higher steel, aluminum tariffs

U.S. small businesses are waiting to feel the effects of President Donald Trump’s executive order imposing a 25% tariff on imported steel and aluminum. Michelle Quinn reports. [Read More]

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Feb 20 2025 Mexico’s president calls for constitutional reform to protect nation’s sovereignty 

Sheinbaum acts after US designates Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations  [Read More]

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Feb 20 2025 US flies Venezuelan migrants from Guantanamo to Honduras

From there, they’ll be transferred to Venezuela [Read More]

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