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Hundreds of Iraqi victims of Islamic State are about to be resettled in the United States. During the campaign, President-elect Donald Trump vowed to suspend immigration from areas of the world with a ‘proven history of terrorism.’ There’s no telling whether Trump will halt this particular program, which focuses mostly on resettling Yazidis and Christians brutalized by IS.

VIDEO: President Obama blames Russia for computer hacks intended to influence the November election, but President-elect Donald Trump isn’t convinced Moscow is behind the computer break-ins. How sure are cyber-crime investigators? VOA discovers the answer involves both science and art.

More than a million international students studied in the United States in 2015, adding about $30 billion to the U.S. economy. During the campaign, President-elect Donald Trump made statements about Mexicans, Muslims and immigrants that many critics called racist. Will Trump’s rhetoric discourage foreign students from dropping big bucks in the United States?

QUICK TAKE VIDEO: U.S. presidents get around in style on Air Force One, highly modified Boeing 747s that are also mobile command centers in the event the United States is attacked. President-elect Donald Trump complained about the high cost of presidential aircrafts. What makes them so pricey? Take a trip on the ‘flying White House.’

Conservationists are thrilled with China’s decision to kill its ivory trade by the end of 2017. Illegal ivory trading is to blame for a sharp decline in Africa’s wild elephant population and China is the world’s largest ivory market. But here’s why the landmark decision might not be a game changer.

No thanks. Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh are skeptical about returning home to Myanmar’s Rakhine state, where they face religious persecution. At Dhaka’s request, Myanmar says it will accept a small fraction of the refugee population now in Bangladesh. VOA visits an illegal Rohingya settlement in Bangladesh where refugees tell of the rape, torture and murder they say they endured or witnessed back home in Myanmar.