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Tuesday, 18 December 2018


VIDEO: American tech companies have long looked to China as a key partner to help build and sell cutting-edge devices and services. But tensions are rising between Washington and Beijing, and Silicon Valley may be caught in the middle.

On This Day in American History

On December 18, 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is formally adopted ensuring “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude … shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Almost two years earlier, during the height of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation calling for all states to free their slaves.

VIDEO: They call her the “miracle baby” — the youngest-ever survivor of the often-deadly Ebola virus. Six-week-old baby Benedicte is returning home to her widowed father after she and her mother were infected with Ebola in the latest outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. VOA captured exclusive images of Benedicte — and other children — in treatment earlier this month, and reports from Beni, Congo.


It’s Christmas 361 days of the year at Bronner’s CHRISTmas Wonderland in Frankenmuth, Michigan. With more than one hectare under one roof, filled with every conceivable item for the holiday, it promotes itself as the largest Christmas store in the world.

VIDEO: Hundreds of ethnic Uzbek residents were forced to flee their homes in northern Faryab province due to the recent expansion of Taliban in border areas with Turkmenistan.

VIDEO: Ukraine has elected the head of a newly unified Orthodox Church, following a split from the Russian Orthodox Church announced Saturday. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has hailed the move as an important safeguard against future Russian aggression. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has condemned Ukraine’s church split from the Russian Orthodox church in October and calls it uncanonical.

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