Good evening. Five years ago, this date - September the 11th - was seared into America's memory. Nineteen men attacked us with a barbarity unequaled in our history. They murdered people of all colors, creeds, and nationalities - and made war upon the...
By Dan Robinson Washington 12 September 2006 U.S. officials say security problems in Afghanistan, amid escalating attacks by Taleban forces, continue to hamper efforts to rebuild and stabilize the country. The officials testified Tuesday before a co...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 12 September 2006 Sheika Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa (file photo) The U.N. General Assembly has opened its 61st session and for the first time a Muslim woman is in the president's chair. From U.N. headquarters, VOA's Pete...
By Gary Thomas London 12 September 2006 Prime Minister Tony Blair appeared at a conference of Britain's powerful trade unions Tuesday to defend his government's policies. Trade unions are the backbone of the Labor Party, but the prime minister's pop...
By Deborah Tate Washington 12 September 2006 Secretary Michael Chertoff The top official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is concerned about the possibility of an attack in the United States involving weapons of mass destruction. A day af...
By Joseph Mok Washington, DC 12 September 2006 watch Native American Comanche Comanche is a Native American people known as the Lords of the Plains in the Great Plains in the Central United States. From this tribe rose the famous Code Talkers of Wor...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 12 September 2006 United Nations disaster-management experts have gone to Ivory Coast to help with the investigation of a toxic waste dumping incident that has left at least six people dead and thousands ill. ----- A man point...
By Wajid Ali Syed Washington, DC 12 September 2006 watch Afghan Boy's Heart Surgery Stories of love and hope emerge amid the violence of every war. For writer Wajid Ali Syed, VOA's Jim Bertel (narrator) introduces us to a young Afghan boy who has ta...
By Kane Farabaugh New York City, NY 12 September 2006 watch NYC Sept 11 Anniversary Family and friends gathered in New York to honor loved ones Families and friends of 9/11 victims in New York gathered at the base of the World Trade Center site Mond...
By Robert Raffaele and Carolyn Weaver Washington, DC 12 September 2006 Watch Sept 11 Anniversary Friends, relatives of victims of September 11, 2001 attacks gather during playing of national anthem at Ground Zero, in New York, Monday, September 11,...
By David McAlary Washington 12 September 2006 The International Space Station has received a new pair of giant solar energy panels that will double the amount of power to the outpost. Spacewalking astronauts have begun the task of connecting them to...
By Sabina Castelfranco Munich 12 September 2006 Addressing academics at the university of Regensburg where he taught before being posted to the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI spoke of Islam and violence. At a morning mass, he rejected the use of God's n...
By Efam Dovi Accra 12 September 2006 In Ghana, mining companies are being forced to cut energy use by 50 percent to help the country through its worst energy crisis in nine years. The country's bulk electricity supplier, the Volta River Authority, s...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 12 September 2006 A new U.N. report warns the Palestinian economy is on the verge of collapse. In its annual report on Assistance to the Palestinian People, the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development is calling for intensifi...
By Lisa McAdams Moscow 12 September 2006 U.S. pop music star Madonna is scheduled to entertain tens of thousands of fans in Moscow, Tuesday night, in her first concert in Russia. The show had been scheduled for September 11 - the fifth anniversary o...
