VOA Mandarin: US House passes bill to restrict use of Chinese-made batteries
FILE – People visit the booth of Chinese battery maker CATL during the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on Dec. 1, 2023
VOA Persian: Nowruz markets in ‘hibernation’ mode
FILE – Iranian people walk at a flower market, ahead of Nowruz, the Persian new year, in Tehran, Iran, March 17, 2024. (Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters)
VOA Creole: MSF reports 150 new cholera cases in Haiti
FILE – A medical worker walks through the cholera ward at a clinic run by Doctors Without Borders in the Cite Soleil neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 3,2023.
Who is Mark Carney, the next prime minister of Canada?
FILE – Mark Carney speaks during the Bank of England interest rate decision and inflation report press conference at the Bank of England in London, Aug. 1, 2019.
Argentina flooding death toll rises to 16, two girls missing
People row kayaks on flooded streets in the city of Bahia Blanca, in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 9, 2025.
North Korea warns of ‘accidental’ war risk from US-South Korea drills
South Korean K1A2 tanks move during a joint live-fire drill between South Korea and the United States at the Seungjin Fire Training Field in Pocheon on March 6, 2025.
Single-engine plane crashes near Pennsylvania airport
Lancaster Airport, Pennsylvania
Panama releases dozens of detained deportees from US into limbo
FILE – Hayatullah Omagh, of Afghanistan, and other migrants who were held in a Panamanian deportee camp after being deported from the U.S. arrive in Panama City, March 8, 2025.
France readying more than $200 million in military aid for Ukraine, minister says
FILE – French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Feb. 13, 2025.
US Homeland Security chief replaces ICE leadership over lagging deportations
FILE – U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks to employees at the Department of Homeland Security, in Washington, Jan. 28, 2025.