Voters across the United States have already begun casting ballots in the midterm elections that are being closely watched as Democrats and Republicans battle for control of Congress.
Marefati was convicted in March 2026 by an Islamic revolutionary court in Tehran on charges alleging participation in activities against national security, entering religious sites with the intent to destroy them, and participating in the burning of a mosque and a religious seminary.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff told members of the National Assembly’s intelligence and defense committee last month that North Korea has laid an estimated 960,000 land mines in the Demilitarized Zone since 2024.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Public Health announced that the campaign, in coordination with international partners, would run from November 2 through November 5. The campaign will extend to the Southern Zone from November 3 through 6, and in the Logar Province from November 9 through 13.
Representative John Moolenaar, the chairman of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is calling on Beijing to release all political prisoners in China.
Afghanistan ranked 142nd out of 143 countries in the WJP’s 2026 Rule of Law Index, published in October, just ahead of Venezuela, while Denmark, Norway and Finland occupied the top three positions.
A Russian human rights group says at least 69 people subjected to political persecution have died in Russia or Russian-occupied territory since the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022.
The U.S. military has released a clear image showing China's secretive reusable spaceplane docked with a satellite in orbit.
At the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Atlanta, Secretary of State Marco Rubio answered VOA questions on Saturday, outlining the Trump administration’s foreign policy priorities and addressing a range of key international issues.
Regarding the conflict between Pakistan and the Taliban rulers in Afghanistan, Rubio told VOA the U.S. shares Pakistan's concerns about terror attacks that Islamabad says originate in Afghanistan and that the Taliban has not done enough to stop them.
U.S. Secretary of State Rubio also said that President Donald Trump is open to meeting with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un to discuss issues of concern to the U.S. and its ally, South Korea, but stated that no meeting was scheduled.
In a response to a VOA question about the upcoming top-level G20 meeting in Miami, Secretary Rubio said that the focus of the administration is on global economic growth and bringing the summit back to what he said it is meant be: growing the US and global economies.
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