Israel & Palestine: Weighing the solutions - Voice of America
The most common alternative to the two-state solution is that of a single binational state on the territory of the former British Mandate for Palestine, with equal civil and political rights for all its residents. Such an arrangement had been proposed by some Jewish and Arab leaders prior to the establishment of Israel and continues to be ...
VOA Special Report | History of mass shooters
Jun 1, 2021 · The researchers. Jillian Peterson, Ph.D., and James Densley, Ph.D., built the groundbreaking database on mass shooters. Densley, a professor of criminal justice at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota, told VOA the idea for the database came about after he and Peterson grew increasingly frustrated with television analyses in the aftermath of mass shootings that offered the ...
By The Numbers: Coups in Africa — VOA Special Report
Oct 3, 2023 · By Megan Duzor and Brian Williamson | VOA News Last updated: October 3, 2023. The African continent saw a significant increase in coups in the last three years, with military figures carrying out takeovers in Gabon, Niger, Burkina Faso, Sudan, Guinea, Chad and Mali. After Niger’s coup in July, the regional Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said it would not tolerate another ...
Five Years Later | A Timeline of Migrant Family Separations
November 2017 Houston Chronicle publishes first reports of family separation. The Houston Chronicle reports that the Trump administration has been separating children since June 2017. It identifies 22 cases of families whose children were taken from them without due process, showing that former U.S. officials started the pilot program to separate children from parents at …
Ground Zero - Then and Now | VOA Special Projects
The 9/11 attacks destroyed much more than the Twin Towers. A total of 10 buildings were lost in the area that came to be known as Ground Zero. In the 20 years since the September 11 attacks, reconstruction has transformed the area with memorials that honor what was lost and new buildings that provide spaces for business, shopping, transportation, education and prayer.
A Year of War in Ukraine | VOA Special Report - Voice of America
A Year of War in Ukraine. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the war has taken unexpected turns, and both countries are now entrenched in heavy fighting in Ukraine's east and south. February 2023. At the start of the war, Ukraine defied many Western intelligence assessments that predicted a quick Russian victory.
VOA Special Report | History of mass shooters | Search the data
Health and Mental Health. More than two-thirds of mass shooters had a history of mental health concerns, which is higher than the 50% of people in the general population who will satisfy criteria for a mental illness at some point in their lives. Before they carried out their crimes, more than 80% of mass shooters displayed signs crises ...
Election 2024 | Meet the Democrats who could replace Biden
President Joe Biden announced Sunday his decision to end his 2024 reelection campaign. He endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic Party’s nominee on the November ballot. Numerous party officials have said they support Harris to replace Biden as the party’s standard-bearer against Trump in the race for the president.
VOA Special Report | History of mass shooters | College campus …
Mass shootings (1966 - February 2020) The first mass shooting in modern U.S. history at a college or university took place in 1966 at the University of Texas at Austin. Fifteen people were killed and 31 others injured. Since then, eight more mass shootings have occurred on college campuses through 2019 — the majority of them taking place in ...
VOA Special Report | History of mass shooters | School shootings
Updated: June 1, 2022. Mass shootings (1966 - February 2020) Nineteen children and two teachers were killed May 24, 2022, at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, about 135 kilometers west of San Antonio. Texas Governor Greg Abbott said in a news conference that the 18-year-old gunman was believed to have been killed by responding police.