By Ron Corben Bangkok 31 May 2006 A new report by the United Nations AIDS agency says India has overtaken South Africa as the country with the highest number of people infected with HIV/AIDS. The UNAIDS report also says the epidemic has spread in so...
By Franz Wild Abidjan 31 May 2006 After more than 70 people died in a fuel tanker explosion in Benin last week, the government is announcing a clamp down on illegal fuel sales. Informal fuel trading sustains thousands of Beninois. ------------------...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Dili 31 May 2006 Tens of thousands of people displaced by the violence wracking East Timor are facing a humanitarian crisis, with food, water, and medicine in short supply at dozens of camps that have sprung up around the cap...
By Chad Bouchard Sarian, Indonesia 31 May 2006 Some rural areas of Indonesia's central-Java earthquake zone are still not getting food and supplies, four days after the 6.3 magnitude temblor killed more than 5,800 people and left 200,000 homeless. A...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 31 May 2006 A high-level U.N. conference on AIDS opens Wednesday with a report showing progress in fighting the epidemic, tempered by statistics showing that the virus is spreading. Dozens of heads of state and gover...
By Teresa Sullivan Washington 30 May 2006 US football goalie Kasey Keller The U.S. Men's National Soccer Team heads to Germany this week for the 2006 World Cup to compete with 31 other nations for the sport's ultimate prize. This will be the first t...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 30 May 2006 A car bomb in Baghdad's Tahariyat Square which targeted an American convoy, setting the Humvee on fire, left, in Baghdad, Iraq Monday, May 29, 2006 The U.S. Defense Department has released an unclassified version of...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 30 May 2006 Witnesses and lawmakers at a congressional hearing on Capitol Hill have sharply criticized an FBI raid on the office of a member of Congress, calling it a dangerous violation of constitutional principles. ---...
By Gary Thomas Washington 30 May 2006 A sudden eruption of violence in Kabul Monday was sparked by a traffic accident involving a U.S. military vehicle. U.S. officials blame a failure of the truck's brakes for the accident. But, the incident added t...
By Joseph Mok and Zhan Jun Juneau, Alaska 30 May 2006 watch Glacier Trekkers report Juneau, the capital of Alaska, was founded as a gold-mining camp 200 years ago. Today, it is filled with cruise ship passengers and people known as trekkers, who are...
By Kane Farabaugh New York City 30 May 2006 watch Fleet Week report Since 1984, the U.S. Navy has made New York City one of its largest port calls in the days leading up to the U.S. holiday of Memorial Day, which honors those who have died defending...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 30 May 2006 United Nations aid agencies are mobilizing a huge relief operation for the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the devastating earthquake that struck the Indonesian island of Java Saturday. The quake killed...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Dili 30 May 2006 East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao speaks to reporters at presidential palace in Dili The East Timorese president has taken over direct control of the armed forces and declared a state of crisis in an atte...
By Paula Wolfson Washington 30 May 2006 President Bush, left, listens as Henry M. Paulson Jr. speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House Tuesday, May 30, 2006 President Bush has named a new treasury secretary, choosing Wall Street executive Henry...
By Noel King Khartoum 30 May 2006 African Union troops listen to the concerns of villagers in the village of Brikatouly in South Darfur, Sudan Tensions are running high in Darfur, one day before a deadline expires for two holdout rebel groups to sig...
