By Al Pessin Pentagon 24 May 2006 The U.S. military has deployed one of its huge hospital ships to Asia on a mission designed to build good will and also help prepare for responding to future disasters. ----------------------------------------------...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 24 May 2006 Mwai Kibaki (file photo) The United States has banned a former aide to Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and three prominent Kenyan businessmen from entering the United States under U.S. anti-corruption legislation....
By Suzanne Presto and Paige Kollock Washington 24 May 2006 watch OnLine Dating report As American society continues to strive for greater efficiency in all things, can even romance become streamlined? Busy young Americans increasingly rely on the In...
By Joe Bavier Abidjan 24 May 2006 Activists in Burkina Faso are marking the 16th anniversary of their campaign to end the practice of female genital mutilation. Though progress has been made, many young girls still undergo the dangerous operation, w...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 24 May 2006 An international press-freedom organization accuses the Ethiopian government of blocking personal Internet Web sites known as blogs that are critical of the government, a charge the authorities deny. Paris-based...
By Tendai Maphosa Harare 24 May 2006 In May 2005 the Zimbabwean government launched a blitz on informal businesses and unauthorized housing, making thousands homeless when their houses were razed. A year later some are still homeless, despite govern...
By Mohamed Elshinnawi Washington, DC 24 May 2006 watch Islam report A new survey of U.S. public attitudes toward Muslim-Americans and Islam finds that a majority of Americans -- 55 percent -- regard Muslim-Americans favorably, but that smaller numbe...
By Mil Arcega Washington, DC 24 May 2006 watch Merger report New York Stock Exchange The New York Stock Exchange made an offer this week to merge with Euronext, the Amsterdam based company that operates several major European exchanges. Euronext was...
By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 24 May 2006 In a severe blow to efforts to establish a functioning government in the Horn of Africa country of Somalia, four elected ministers, all based in the capital Mogadishu, have announced that they are quitting the gov...
By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 24 May 2006 watch Melting Poles report NASA scientists, working with 10 years of satellite data, find a dramatic thinning of ice around the edges of Greenland, and Antarctica too. satellite view of earth Using satellite...
By Melinda Smith Wahington, DC 24 May 2006 watch Palliative Care report Medicine has been called the healing art. But what happens when medicine can no longer heal? Who cares for the patient when there is no cure? VOA's Melinda Smith reports on an a...
By Franz Wild Abidjan 24 May 2006 Charles Konan Banny greets villagers in Meagui In war-divided Ivory Coast disarmament and personal identification, the two obstacles to elections, saw partial success in a pilot program this week. There is little si...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 24 May 2006 East Timorese soldiers secure an area after a gunfight which killed one soldier and wounded seven others outside Dili, May 23, 2006 Australia and New Zealand have agreed to send troops to East Timor after...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 24 May 2006 Afghan civilans, who were injured by the U.S. airstrike on Monday, rest at a local hospital in Kandahar, May 24, 2006 U.S. Military officials in Afghanistan say...
By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 24 May 2006 Manmohan Singh Leaders of a key alliance of Kashmiri separatist organizations have refused to join a meeting with the Indian prime minister aimed at ending the...
