VOA News Wildlife populations across the globe have dropped nearly 60 percent since 1970 and human activity is to blame, according to a report released by conservation groups. The joint report produced by the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London warned that if the current trends continue, the decline in world populations […]Load more...
The Providence Police Department’s Annual Commendation Awards Ceremony Awards presented were the Mayor’s, Commissioner’s, and Chief’s Awards, the Citizen’s, Outside Agency, Fraternal Order of Police (F.O.P), Community Service Awards. The prestigious Rhea Archambault Award was also presented. This award represents the best overall performance by an individual police officer or officers for a particular calendar […]Load more...
VOA News A U.S. government oversight body is proposing a way to hold banking and investment executives more accountable for criminal activity and fraud committed by staffers against their customers. An inspector general is suggesting that top Wall Street executives be required to sign an annual statement promising that criminal or civil fraudulent activity did […]Load more...
Carla Babb PENTAGON — U.S. Army women hit a milestone Wednesday, as the first women graduated from the military branch’s Infantry Basic Officer Leader’s Course. Ten women received their Infantry blue chord at Fort Benning in the southern U.S. state of Georgia, officially making them infantry officers and giving them the ability to lead an Army […]Load more...
Jeff Seldin VOA News Fears that the Islamic State is beginning to mass in its self-proclaimed Syrian capital of Raqqa and the possibility that the terror group may launch attacks from there are prompting the United States and its Western allies to put Raqqa in their crosshairs in the coming weeks. U.S. and Western officials […]Load more...
An independent United Nations expert is bitterly condemning the world body for refusing to accept legal responsibility for a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed more than 9,300 and sickened 800,000. A U.N. expert on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, calls the U.N. stance a disgrace and a debacle. «If the United […]Load more...
Jessica Berman VOA News WASHINGTON — An international coalition of governments and philanthropic organizations has donated $18 million to fight Zika and other mosquito-borne illnesses. The money will target the illnesses in Colombia and Brazil with a unique mosquito-control program. The funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the British government, as well as […]Load more...
Heather Murdock QAYYARAH, IRAQ — Fleeing fighting, abandoning their villages, and returning to formerly IS controlled areas, Iraqis are on the move. Aid workers are setting up camps for the one million people who may be displaced by the battle for Mosul, while many recaptured villages and towns remain virtually empty, littered with bombs and blackened […]Load more...
VOA News A 46-year-old Iranian-American says a court in northeastern Iran has sentenced him to 18 years in prison after convicting him of «collaborating with a hostile government.» Details of the trial and sentencing of Gholamrez Reza Shahini emerged Tuesday, after Shahini made contact with family members in the United States and after he managed […]Load more...
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the Renovated Warren Street Park PROVIDENCE, RI – Mayor Jorge Elorza continues his commitment to investing in parks by joining Councilwoman Mary Kay Harris, Parks Superintendent Wendy Nilsson, and DownCity Design in a ribbon cutting ceremony for the newly renovated Warren Street Park. Improvements to the park include the addition of […]Load more...
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