Newsletter Archive

VIDEO: Coal has powered progress since the Industrial Revolution. While coal-fired power is on the rise in Asia, it’s declining in the United States and much of Europe as cheaper alternatives and climate concerns push it out of the market. While the fall has hit coal towns hard in the Appalachian region of the eastern United States, the Western state of Wyoming is the nation’s leading coal producer. Now, coal’s troubles have arrived in this energy-rich state, too.

In an escalation of its bitter dispute with Japan, South Korea decided Thursday to scrap a military intelligence sharing agreement with Tokyo, opening a new divide in trilateral security cooperation between the U.S., Japan and South Korea.

VIDEO: To get medical supplies or food, people in some places around the world are showing not a government ID but their iris or their thumbprint. VOA talked to one Silicon Valley company providing the new tech tools.

VIDEO: Protests paralyzing Hong Kong’s central district are growing by the week. They are demonstrating to maintain Hong Kong’s democratic freedoms in the face of Chinese pressure. Plugged In with Greta Van Susteren examines what is at stake and the US policy on the growing unrest.

A Spanish navy frigate sailed from Cadiz, Spain, Wednesday to escort the humanitarian vessel Open Arms back from Italy with a token number of 10 refugees Spain has agreed to take in. It could be the Barcelona-based ship’s last voyage as pressure mounts to stop rescuing shipwrecked African migrants.