By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 25 October 2007 Vatican officials have presented a new volume called Trial Against the Templars. The new publication is an expensive limited edition of the proceedings of the 1307-1312 papal trial of the mysterious medieva...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 25 October 2007 Elders in Kenya's central highlands are planning to place a traditional curse on town leaders, a tea company, and even local loggers for the destruction of a hill that is sacred to the thousands of Kikuyu peopl...
By Jim Malone Washington 25 October 2007 The lengthy and complicated process of choosing the next president of the United States begins in early January when voters attend party caucuses and cast ballots in primaries to select the presidential nomine...
By Michael Bowman Buenos Aires 25 October 2007 Argentines go to the polls Sunday to elect a new president, along with legislators and provincial governors. In a country that produced the iconic figure of Eva Peron [wife of two-time President Juan Per...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 25 October 2007 A senior United Nations official says Israel's economic blockade of the Gaza Strip does not bode well for U.S.-sponsored Middle East peace talks expected later this year. He appeals to Israel to lift restriction...
By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 25 October 2007 Ethiopia and Eritrea are blaming each other as a commission set up to adjudicate their border dispute prepares to finish its work without finding a mutually acceptable settlement. VOA's Peter Heinlein rep...
By Kari Barber Dakar 25 October 2007 Human rights group Amnesty International released a report Thursday calling on the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to rein in its security troops and prosecute those accused of torture, murder and r...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 25 October 2007 A U.N. new report warns the recent upsurge of violence in Afghanistan is threatening the progress made in the welfare of women and children since the fall of the Taliban. The U.N. Children's Fund also raises con...
By Mil Arcega Washington 25 October 2007 American news media are reporting that a survey of pilots by the U.S. government found that safety problems involving air carriers happen more frequently than previously known. The reports say the space agency...
By Noel King Kigali 25 October 2007 U.N. officials in Congo say dissident Congolese General Laurent Nkunda has failed to make good on his pledge to send 500 of his troops for integration into Congo's regular army. Noel King has more in this report fr...
By Anya Ardayeva Moscow 25 October 2007 Three months ahead of parliamentary elections in Russia, and six months before the country's presidential poll, it is not clear who is likely to replace President Vladimir Putin in power. Perhaps no one. Russia...
By Zuleqa Husain and Ilyas Khan Washington, D.C. 25 October 2007 Commuting to work by car in many U.S. cities is a nightmare for many drivers as they fight bumper-to-bumper traffic to reach their destinations. This is true in the nation's capital, wh...
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 25 October 2007 Rebel leaders and Chad's president Idriss Deby are in Libya to sign a peace deal in the conflict that has roiled the eastern part of Chad. But Naomi Schwarz reports from Dakar, a recent upsurge in fighting leave...
By Cathy Majtenyi Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 25 October 2007 In September 2007 Western time, Ethiopians rang in their new millennium, seven-and-a-half years after the rest of the world. Ethiopia's unique way of measuring time is part of the country's ric...
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 25 October 2007 Alisher Saipov, a freelance journalist who provided in-depth reports for VOA's Uzbek Service, has been buried less than 24 hours after his murder Wednesday evening in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh. VOA Mosco...
