Chinese military vessels are now operating in the Northern Atlantic, and Russian submarines are lurking in those same waters at a pace not seen since the end of the Cold War, the Navy’s top admiral told VOA in an exclusive interview.

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY   On August 6, 1945, the U.S. drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city Hiroshima. An estimated 140,000 people are killed in the first use of a nuclear weapon in war. U.S. President Truman authorized the bombing – and another three days later on the city of Nagasaki – to force Japan, the last remaining Axis power during World War II, to surrender quickly and avoid an invasion of the island country.

A retired professor from northeastern China who was apparently detained by Chinese authorities during a live-telephone interview with VOA last week was moved to an undisclosed location, employees of the hotel where he was previously being held told Voice of America’s Mandarin Service.

Yazidis living in the United States are commemorating the anniversary of the 2014 massacre of their religious community in Iraq by the Islamic State group, and keeping mindful that thousands of Yazidis remain under IS captivity while many more remain in refugee camps.

Japan and North Korea have long been at odds over the truth-really-is-stranger-than-fiction stories of Pyongyang’s abduction of Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s. As the U.S. and North Korea engage in new, high-level diplomacy over nuclear weapons, there’s new attention focused on the four-decades-old kidnappings.

VIDEO: Some folks don’t like to “rough it” when they go camping. VOA went on the road to meet people who bring everything – including (literally) the kitchen sink – with them when they want to get away from it all. See the RVs and campers that put some small apartments to shame.

A South Korean research organization accused Russia of setting up an illicit trade network to supply oil to North Korea and evading UN sanctions.

VIDEO: A mother and her son – who has Asperger’s syndrome, a condition on the autism spectrum – have a conversation about the importance of animals, telling the truth, and facing adversity.