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Lionel Messi was full of smiles as he joined the rest of his Paris-Saint Germain teammates on Friday, as they prepare for their first Ligue 1 home fixture against Strasbourg. The Argentine looked content alongside former teammate Neymar Jr, who was in a joyful mood.

As families flee Taliban forces overrunning much of Afghanistan, some refugees say their escape from certain death has left them with an uncertain and dangerous future. Heather Murdock files from Van in Turkey.

Patricia Davies, who was part a Zimbabwean hockey team which won the gold medal in the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, speaking with VOA's Gibbs Dube about getting the top prize in the prestigious event.

When mother-of-three Amanda Wood heard that hundreds of coronavirus shots were available for teens, only one thing prevented her from racing to the vaccination site - her 13-year-old daughter’s fear of needles. In Zimbabwe, more than 13,000 kilometers away, immunity is harder to obtain.

Iraqi refugees at the al-Hol camp in northeast Syria are voicing concerns about growing violence inside the camp following the weekend slaying of yet another Iraqi by suspected Islamic State militants.

Sixty-five year-old Patricia Davies, who is one of the women who won a gold medal in hockey in the 1980 Olympic Games, says athletes should work hard in order to get to grace the prestigious Olympic Games. The 'golden girl' tells VOA's Gibbs Dube that she is still involved in hockey.

The U.S. intelligence community is expected to send a report to President Joe Biden later this month examining the two leading theories on the origins of COVID-19. One claims the virus was accidentally released from a lab; the other that it emerged from human contact with an infected animal.

While Ukraine’s president prepares for a visit to Washington, Kyiv is accepting COVID-19 vaccines from China and has signed a major infrastructure agreement with Bejing to cooperate on roads, bridges and railway projects.

Russia begins mass military exercises with its Central Asian allies Tajikistan and Uzbekistan near the Tajik border with Afghanistan this week. The maneuvers come against the backdrop of a US withdrawal from Afghanistan - and rapid territorial gains by its adversaries in the Afghan Taliban. For VOA

The owner of Britain’s Chelsea Football Club, Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, and Russia’s state-owned oil giant Rosneft have both filed a defamation lawsuit against the author of a book about President Vladimir Putin’s rise to power. Activists say the case threatens the freedom of the press.