Ken Schwartz Humanitarian aid corridors in and out of the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo must be made safe, and no one should be forced to leave the city, the U.N. aid chief said Thursday. Stephen O’Brien was reacting to a Russian proposal for four corridors to evacuate civilians and fighters who want to give […]Load more...

VOA News Hai Yan An 18-year-old North Korean man who went to Hong Kong to compete in the International Mathematical Olympiad took refuge in the South Korean consulate there Wednesday, according to local news media. As a precautionary measure, the South Korean Consulate General, located in the Far East Finance Centre, asked Hong Kong authorities […]Load more...

Fatima Tlisova With a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, scheduled for August, anxiety is high among one particular group of asylum-seekers in Turkey. Thousands of Russian-speaking Muslims fear a potential improvement in Turkish-Russian ties will affect them directly. They call themselves “Muhajir” — an Arabic term for […]Load more...

VOA News Pope Francis silently walked Friday beneath the notorious sign at the Polish death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. With his head bowed and dressed in white, the pontiff walked under the sign that bears the words «Arbeit Macht Frei» or «Work Sets You Free.»  More than a million people, most of them Jews, were killed at […]Load more...