Newsletter Archive

How are you spending your Christmas vacation? If you’re the president of the United States, you stay out of sight, play golf almost daily, and tweet regularly. While President Trump hasn’t been seen much during the last two weeks of 2017, he still manages to stay at the center of attention.

Venezuela sits atop the world’s largest proven oil reserves but its people are going hungry. VOA is there when fed-up citizens take to the streets of Caracas to protest the latest blow — the government’s failure to deliver on a promised food package that’s supposed to include a Christmas ham.

VIDEO: Living displays of art greet visitors at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The museum’s chief floral designer, an immigrant from Holland, has been creating floral arrangements in the Great Hall weekly for more than 20 years. Now part of the permanent collection thanks to an endowment, the floral art frames the museum’s masterpieces.

Muddy-colored and smelly drinking water has residents of Zimbabwe’s capital city calling for the mayor of Harare to resign. Benard Manyenyeni has cautioned residents about consuming unsafe drinking water. Most parts of Zimbabwe do not have access to clean water, forcing residents to rely on open sources that expose them to waterborne disease.

QUICK TAKE VIDEO: The gleaming skyscrapers in an area known as Moscow City in the Russian capital were originally supposed to house private and international businesses. But a struggling economy and Western sanctions have driven away investors, clearing the way for an increased role for state businesses in the economy.