NASA may soon have another way to get astronauts into space. Plus, the agency reconnects with an old friend and how to train a dog for a walk ... on the moon. VOA’s Arash Arabasadi brings us The Week in Space.

Tehran — Iran's judiciary rejected on Thursday a BBC report suggesting a teenage girl was sexually assaulted and killed by Revolutionary Guards during the 2022 protests triggered by Mahsa Amini's death. Protests erupted across Iran over the September 2022 death of Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, after her arrest by the morality police in Tehran...

United Nations — The United Nations said Thursday that the war in the Gaza Strip has set back development there by 40 years, and that rebuilding will cost billions of dollars over many years. “An early recovery program for three years to bring back hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to temporary shelters in their original locations with comprehensive...

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Demonstrations against Israel's military action in Gaza continue around the world as police raid the protester's encampment on the campus of UCLA. Joe Biden reacts to the protesters and the politics. A look at security in Asia, plus, tomorrow is World Press Freedom Day.

Witnesses and survivor accounts, photographs, and videos as well as satellite images place Burkina Faso troops at the scene of the attack reported by Human Rights Watch, an international watchdog with a decades-long history of documenting abuses.