By Paula Wolfson White House 20 March 2006 The situation in the troubled Darfur region of Sudan was on the agenda when President Bush met Monday with NATO Secretary General Jaap De Hoop Scheffer. Mr....
By Cathy Majtenyi Gode 20 March 2006 The Somali region of southeastern Ethiopia is being hit by a drought that is also affecting parts of Kenya and Somalia. Residents and aid workers fear that widespr...
By Mil Arcega Washington, DC 20 March 2006 watch Competitiveness report Technology leaders say the United States is losing its competitive edge to developing countries in Asia. As VOA's Mil Arcega rep...
By Mohamed Elshinnawi Washington, DC 20 March 2006 watch Prejudice report More Americans are expressing unfavorable views about Islam. A recent public opinion poll shows 25 percent of Americans now sa...
By Scott Bobb Bangkok 20 March 2006 Thailand's election commission is considering postponing snap parliamentary elections called for next month because of a lack of candidates in some districts and al...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 20 March 2006 Newmont Mining Corporation has suspended gold and copper exploration on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa after unknown assailants burned down a camp for i...
By Paula Wolfson White House 19 March 2006 Three years to the day after the start of the Iraq War, President Bush is hailing progress in that country on the political front, and praising the work of c...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 18 March 2006 The Islamic militant group Hamas is ready to assume power in the Palestinian Authority. Hamas has rejected pressure at home and abroad to moderate its position...
By Scott Stearns White House 18 March 2006 George Bush President Bush says U.S. troops are making progress in Iraq, three years after the start of fighting there. Two-thirds of Americans say they disa...
By Margaret Besheer Washington 18 March 2006 Akbar Ganji has been set free after spending six years in prison Iran's most prominent dissident, journalist Akbar Ganji, has been released from prison, af...
By Stefan Bos Budapest 18 March 2006 Slobodan Milosevic's long time secretary Mirjana Dragojevic mourns on the marker of his grave Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, who died in his cell in...
By Margaret Besheer Washington 17 March 2006 The United Nations' special representative for Iraq says he does not believe Iraq is headed toward a civil war despite an escalation in sectarian violence....
By Lisa Bryant Paris 17 March 2006 A group of exiled Syrian opposition leaders announced in Brussels Friday it had formed a united front aimed at toppling the government of President Bashar al-Assad t...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 17 March 2006 Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is asking African leaders to decide whether to bring former President Charles Taylor to trial on war crimes cha...
By Tendai Maphosa Harare 17 March 2006 Morgan Tsvangirai In Zimbabwe, thousands of delegates loyal to Morgan Tsvangirai, the president of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, are gathering i...
