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Green Bank, West Virginia, is a small American town with no Wi-Fi or cell phone service. If residents want to talk to each other, they pick up a land line or speak face-to-face. You might say Green Bank is frozen in time — somewhere in the 1950s — and here’s why.

Young Somali-Americans have recently made headlines for all the wrong reasons; a small number have fallen prey to the lure of drugs, gangs and extremist ideology.  In Minnesota, home to the largest Somali community in the United States, here’s what they’re doing to fend off some of the negative influences Somali youth face.

Asian-Americans have the highest naturalization rates in the United States. Thirty-five percent of new Americans in 2015 were Asian-American. Only a small fraction of people eligible to apply to become Americans actually do so. Here are the top nationalities of the people applying for US citizenship.

VIDEO: Political satire dates back to the ancient Greeks. About 2,400 years ago Aristophanes made fun of the Peloponnesian War. Today, political cartoons have become part of American politics. Successful political cartoonists are able to make biting commentary with the stroke of a crayon.

Teachers in Cameroon are out to teach the government a lesson by going on strike. Educators in the country’s eight French-speaking regions have joined their colleagues on strike in its two English-speaking regions. VOA spoke to the protesters in Yaounde, where Francophone teachers say they haven’t been paid in seven years.

Sermons by Buddhist monks usually focus on topics like personal liberation, Nirvana, and enlightenment. But that’s not the case for Myanmar nationalist monk Wirathu, who has called a UN human rights envoy a ‘whore’ and tells women it’s better to marry dogs than Muslims. VOA is in Yangon, where Wirathu has been silenced for now, but his legacy of hatred and political Buddhism remains.