By Lisa Schlein Geneva 30 May 2006 A child holds a small hammer that is used to crush stones in a quarry near Dawhenya, east of Accra, Ghana, Thursday, May 4, 2006 Child labor, worker safety and changing patterns in the international workplace are o...
By Chad Bouchard Yogyakarta 30 May 2006 Volunteers unload emergency aid from the United States near Bantul, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 30, 2006 Officials in Indonesia say more than 5,400 people have now died from Saturday's earthquake and the rush is o...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Dili 30 May 2006 Violence continued in the East Timor capital Dili Tuesday as the fractured government entered a second day of talks on how to end days of fighting triggered by a split in the military. -----------------------...
By Greg Flakus Houston 30 May 2006 Dozens of volunteers with the anti-illegal immigration group known as the Minutemen spent their Memorial Day holiday in the hot sun along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona, building a fence to stop illegal crossing...
By VOA News 29 May 2006 Condoleezza Rice (file photo) U.S. Secretary of States Condoleezza Rice has marked the 16th anniversary of democratic elections in Burma, which were disregarded by the country's military government. She said the years have be...
By Gilbert Da Costa Abuja 29 May 2006 Nigerian Senator Idris Kuta, left, Senator Shola Adeleye, center and Niger State Governor Abdulahi Kure, right celebrate outside the National Assembly in Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday, May 16, 2006 A few weeks ago, th...
By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 29 May 2006 An alliance of secular factional leaders battling Islamic militias for control of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, says that militant Muslim fighters from various countries have entered Somalia and are fighting alon...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 29 May 2006 Experts from around East Africa are meeting this week in Kenya's capital to discuss how to supply one of the continent's most basic needs, clean water. In many East African cities large areas have no access to r...
By Catherine Maddux Washington 29 May 2006 Malnourished boy sits at a Medecins sans Frontieres' hospital in El Wak village in drought stricken north eastern Kenya, March 4, 2006 Every year, untold numbers of African doctors and nurses leave the cont...
By Paula Wolfson White House 29 May 2006 Americans are honoring their war dead on this Memorial Day holiday. President Bush spoke for the nation at a ceremony at the country's largest military cemetery. A lone military bugler saluted his fallen comr...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 29 May 2006 Supporters of the opposition umbrella group Kifaya, or Enough, chant anti government slogans during a demonstration in Cairo (File photo - Jan. 27, 2006) Opposition activists in Egypt are accusing the police o...
By Kane Farabaugh New York 29 May 2006 watch WTC Stairs report As the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks draws near, one of the only remaining pieces of the World Trade Center in New York City is in danger of extinction. VOA's K...
By Simon Marks Darfur 29 May 2006 watch Peacekeepers report As more than two million refugees from the fighting in Darfur endure triple-digit temperatures under the blazing African sun, the Sudanese government is sending mixed messages about whether...
By Trish Anderton Jakarta 29 May 2006 Former South Korean leprosy patient, Oh Chun-duck, participates in an anti-Japan rally for having been forced to stay in isolated leprosariums during Japan's wartime colonial rule (File photo - Oct. 27, 2005) Th...
By Ernest Leong Washington, DC 29 May 2006 watch Olympic Boxer report Gary Russell Junior stands 1.6 meters tall, and weighs about 53 kilograms. That doesn't sound physically imposing. But in the boxing ring, Russell is an intimidating force. He's...
