By Margaret Besheer Washington 07 October 2006 A senior U.S. official says work on a new U.N. Security Council resolution to sanction Iran for refusing to suspend its nuclear enrichment activities will begin in a few days. ---- U.S. Under Secretary...
By Bill Gasperini Moscow 07 October 2006 A prominent Russian investigative journalist, known for her criticism of the Kremlin's policies toward war-torn Chechnya, was found shot dead on Saturday. In this photo made available from Russian newspaper N...
By Scott Stearns White House 07 October 2006 George W. Bush, Oct. 7, 2006 U.S. President George Bush says American forces fighting overseas will ultimately make the world a more peaceful place. Mr. Bush spoke at the christening of an aircraft carrie...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 06 October 2006 A senior U.S. general in Iraq says the suspension of an entire Iraqi police brigade on Wednesday demonstrates that the interior minister is serious about building an effective force. The general also says thousa...
By Stefan Bos Budapest 06 October 2006 Hungary's prime minister, who has been under pressure to resign, has survived a vote of confidence. Before the vote, he apologized to parliament for not facing the reality of the dire state of the economy. Foll...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 06 October 2006 Security Council has threatened North Korea with unspecified consequences, if it goes ahead with planned nuclear weapons tests. The statement adopted Friday warns North Korea that testing a nuclear de...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 06 October 2006 Many Kenyans are criticizing a controversial proposal by a Kuwaiti company to develop the historic area of Lamu on Kenya's north coast, saying that the proposal has not followed proper procurement procedures...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 06 October 2006 Delegates attending a United Nations refugee conference have expressed deep concern about the plight of millions of internally displaced people, especially those who have been uprooted by Sudan's conflict in Da...
By George Dwyer Washington, DC 06 October 2006 watch Afghanistan Polio report The number of polio cases reported in Afghanistan so far this year is up sharply over figures tallied for the whole of 2005. As VOA's George Dwyer reports, nearly all of t...
By Kane Farabaugh New York City 06 October 2006 watch Doctor Without Border Makeshift refugee camp in Brooklyn, NY Doctors Without Borders, also known as Medicines Sans Frontieres, or MSF, is taking its work on the road - in the United States. The n...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 06 October 2006 West African leaders are meeting in Abuja to discuss how war-divided Ivory Coast should be run, after a U.N.-backed transitional government expires at the end of this month. The meeting is viewed as a crucia...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 06 October 2006 The Nepalese government and Maoist rebels are to hold a crucial round of peace talks on Sunday. But a top Maoist leader told VOA he is not optimistic about the outcome, and says the rebels will launch a p...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 06 October 2006 A Pakistani boy runs past the ruins near his family's refugee tent in Muzaffarabad in the Kashmir region of Pakistan, Sept. 23, 2006 International aid agencies say hundreds of thousands of people in northern Pa...
By Jim Randle Irbil, Iraq 06 October 2006 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held talks Friday with Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq. The secretary's stop in Irbil was a continuation of her effort to get Iraq...
By Dan Robinson Washington 05 October 2006 Majority Republicans in the House of Representatives have moved to prevent further damage from the scandal involving a former Republican congressman, Mark Foley, who resigned amid revelations he sent sexual...
