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Print Sitting before a pile of dilapidated shacks and ashes in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 80-year-old Rohingya refugee Amena Khatun began weeping as she talked about her 60-year-old son, Abul Hair.

The U.N. estimates that the world produces over 430 million metric tons of plastic waste every year globally, with the largest source being single-use packaging. VOA's Valdya Baraputri reports on a movement to cut down on such waste.

Smallholder maize farmers in six South African provinces are using homegrown digital tech normally available only to commercial farmers to get the most out of their fields. Marize de Klerk reports from the maize fields in South Africa’s Magaliesburg region.

Print Relatives of hostages held in Gaza lit the first candle of Hanukkah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Wednesday.

Print Graduate school applications in China have declined for the second consecutive year, with 500,000 fewer applicants for the 2025 entrance exams compared with the previous year.

Ryan Routh's trial will begin Sept. 8 instead of the previously scheduled Feb. 10 start date

New York — Temulun Togchug, 17, born to a Mongolian couple who fled to the United States, recently stood before the U.S.

Lights, music and Christmas decorations light up the spirits in parts of the world struggling with conflict. While many of the world’s trouble revolves around religion, we talk with someone who says there’s more commonality among the world’s major religions than there is difference.

Panel overturns decision by Central Election Commission, which declined to certify Srpska Lista because of its nationalist stance and close ties to neighboring Serbia

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