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VOA spoke to three members of the class of 2022 to find out how the COVID-19 health crisis affected their college education and their lives.

South Sudan’s government said it is considering a plan to reduce flooding that would change the way water flows through the country. Some people who depend on that water are worried the plan will change the way they live and work.

Movie stars and famous filmmakers are back in the southern French city of Cannes to celebrate the film festival’s 75th anniversary, even as the war continues not too far away in Ukraine.

North Korea admitted to over 1 million “fevers,” likely related to the spread of COVID-19, for the first time. The country’s leader, Kim Jong Un appeared in public wearing a face covering and criticized public health officials for not helping sick people get medicine fast enough.

In recent years, state and city governments in the U.S. worked to restrict the use of facial recognition software by police. This year, however, some states and cities say the software is better and they are thinking about bringing it back.

Three female college athletes took their own lives recently this year. Now people that follow university sports are thinking about how to provide support.

The United Nations is concerned that the war in Ukraine will make problems with the food supply in Africa even worse. Ukraine and Russia are major suppliers of wheat and corn to the area.

The new Taliban leadership in Afghanistan is divided between those who want to return to the group’s early ways of over 20 years ago and others who seek a more realistic way of running the nation.

Dr. Shelly Tien provides abortions to women in several states which have restrictions on the pregnancy-ending operations in place.

Professors and education officials are finding that, while new college students’ grades are not lower, they are less prepared for college work.