Taleban,Khaksar,Pakistani,By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 15 January 2006 Khaksar holds half of a five rupee Pakistani note he gave to a US official in April 1999 seeking assistance to defeat Taliban (File photo - June 9, 2002) The...
VOA,VOA标准英语,Washington,NASA,capsule,By David McAlary Washington 15 January 2006 Tom Duxbury, Stardust Project Manager for NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, answers questions during a news conference after the landing of the Stardust capsule A...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 15 January 2006 Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert chairs an emergency cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Jan. 5, 2006 Israel will allow Palestinian voting in East Jerusal...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 15 January 2006 U.S. Senator John Kerry visited Pakistan's hard hit quake zone Saturday. The former Democratic presidential candidate toured a sprawling tent village in nort...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 14 January 2006 An unidentified woman looks out from a window at the Hadassah hospital where ailing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is being treated in Jerusalem Israeli...
By Sabina Castelfranco Turin, Italy 14 January 2006 With less than four weeks to go to the opening of the Winter Olympics in Turin, there is still quite a lot of work to be done. There will be tight s...
By Margaret Besheer Washington 14 January 2006 President Bush is urging the Senate to promptly vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. George W. Bush President Bush's request for a swift v...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 14 January 2006 Pakistan says it has lodged a formal protest with the U.S. ambassador in Islamabad, following air strikes that killed 18 people in a tribal area on the Afgha...
By Jim Malone Washington 13 January 2006 President Bush continued his efforts this week to rebuild public support for his handling of Iraq with speeches this week in Washington and Kentucky. But, thos...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 13 January 2006 A senior U.S. general in Iraq says the al-Qaida terrorist network in the country is in "disarray," and that if the new government includes Sunni groups that have...
By David McAlary Washington 13 January 2006 A new study says United Nations health guidelines recommending iron supplements for anemic children could be dangerous in certain circumstances. Researchers...
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 13 January 2006 The U.S. Senate hearings into the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court have concluded with testimony from witnesses. Some 30 witnesses te...
By Noel King Juba, Sudan 13 January 2006 One year ago, southern Sudan ended a two decade civil war with the ruling northern Islamist government. But one conflict in south Sudan persists. The Lord's Re...
By Scott Stearns White House 13 January 2006 President Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel say they will continue working together to convince Iran not to develop nuclear weapons. Iran says it is...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 13 January 2006 The Kenyan government is investigating claims that some relief food that had been donated to famine victims in the north and east is instead being sold in the...
