By Margaret Besheer Irbil 07 July 2007 This past week, Iraq's parliament was supposed to begin debating the law seen as its most vital: how the country's most important resource, oil, will be shared among Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds. But as VOA's Marg...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 07 July 2007 Pakistani security forces are intensifying their operations outside the Red Mosque in Islamabad where radical clerics are refusing to surrender to government forces. Pakistani media report president Pervez Mush...
By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 07 July 2007 A bombing casualty, from the village of Armili, Iraq, is treated in Kirkut hospital, 7 Jul 2007 A suicide truck bomber has set off his explosives in a rural Iraqi village, killing more than a hundred peopl...
By Tendai Maphosa London 07 July 2007 Big name rock stars and musicians from around the globe performed at concerts on six continents to raise awareness about climate change. A sold-out crowd rocked London's Wembley Stadium, and other concerts were...
By Liam Cochrane Kathmandu 07 July 2007 A girl who is considered a living goddess in Nepal has been demoted after a trip to the United States. Sujani Shakya, 10, was visiting America to publicize a documentary made about her, but the committee that a...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 07 July 2007 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says it is stepping up its humanitarian operations in Sudan's conflict-ridden province of Darfur. The ICRC says it must get aid to tens of thousands of people in...
By Liz Giegerich New York 06 July 2007 American opera legend Beverly Sills, who died July 2 at 78, was viewed by much of the American public as the girl next door who happened to sing brilliant high D's in the world's most famed opera houses. Sills'...
By David Byrd Bethesda, Maryland 06 July 2007 K.J. Choi South Korea's K.J. Choi and Australian Stuart Appleby share the lead headed into the third round of the inaugural ATT National golf tournament in suburban Washington. AS VOA's David Byrd reports...
By David Gollust Washington 06 July 2007 Condoleezza Rice (file photo) The State Department says Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit the Middle East and Africa in an overseas trip beginning July 16th. She will meet Israeli and Palestinian...
By Arjun Kohli Nairobi 06 July 2007 Cattle-herding nomads from western Kenya confirm United Nations and aid agency reports that forces of the Ugandan army are using helicopter gunships and mortar against communities living on the Kenya-Uganda border....
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 06 July 2007 A growing number of Republicans are breaking rank with President Bush on Iraq, with Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico the latest to call for a new strategy. Domenici's comments come as the Democratic-led Se...
By Meredith Buel Washington 06 July 2007 The United Nations estimates there are now more than four million Iraqis who are either internally displaced or have fled the violence in their homeland to become refugees, mostly in neighboring states. Middle...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 06 July 2007 Amid growing pressure from the congress for the start of a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq this year, a senior U.S. commander in Iraq is warning that a premature withdrawal would create, in his words, a mess. VOA's Al Pes...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 06 July 2007 Officials in the tense delta region of Nigeria are searching for the three-year-old daughter of a British oil worker who was abducted on Thursday. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports that the kidnapping o...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 06 July 2007 International human rights activists and lawyers are condemning reports that Somalia's interim government has carried out its first formal executions since the government body was formed with international backing i...
