International rescue and relief teams are converging on Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, even as hopes fade that more survivors will be found in the aftermath of a massive quake Saturday that has claimed more than 3,700 lives. The capital’s airport was so congested with military planes attempting to land that a flight carrying 70 members of […]
Afghanistan’s president was forced to briefly delay his trip to India after hundreds of Taliban attacked police and army check posts in the northern Kunduz province Monday. During the delay, Ashraf Ghani met with NATO’s top commander General John Campbell. The fighting began Friday to mark the opening of the Taliban’s spring offensive. The militant […]
An Egyptian court sentenced former President Mohamed Morsi to 20 years in prison Tuesday in connection with the killing of protesters in 2012. He escaped a possible death penalty with the court ruling that he and 12 other Muslim Brotherhood leaders and supporters were guilty of intimidation and violence, but not murder. The charges are […]
At least five people were killed Tuesday when a car bomb exploded outside a busy restaurant in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. A VOA reporter on the scene says two women were among those who died in the blast. A doctor with the city’s ambulance service, Dr. Abdulkadir Abdirahman Aden, tells VOA’s Somali Service that another […]