By George Dwyer Washington, DC 07 March 2006 watch Merger report Shares of the U.S. regional telephone firm BellSouth rose sharply in value Monday after the company agreed to an acquisition offer by A...
Bangkok 07 March 2006 A busy street in Bangkok As the 21st Century begins, environmentalists warn rapidly growing populations, combined with rising living standards in parts of the developing world, a...
By Barry Wood Belgrade 07 March 2006 watch Kosovo's Future Despite having lost control of its southern province of Kosovo to NATO and the United Nations in 1999, Serbia even now has not had serious pu...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 07 March 2006 These are dark days for poultry eaters in France, land of foie gras, coq au vin, and other gastronomic delights. Sales of chickens and other fowl began tumbling well...
By Greg Flakus New Orleans, Louisiana 07 March 2006 watch New Orleans Levee report New Orleans levee repairs are to be finished before hurricane season begins June 1st In New Orleans, where recovery f...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 07 March 2006 Secretary-General Kofi Annan has unveiled a plan to shake up the U.N. management structure as part of a broad effort to reform the world body. The propos...
By Melinda Smith Washington, DC 07 March 2006 view PostTraumatic report The headlines from Iraq are filled almost daily with stories of average people caught in the crossfire between insurgents and co...
By David Gollust State Department 07 March 2006 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow has made no compromise offer to deal with Iran's nuclear program. He spoke after talks with U.S. Secr...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 07 March 2006 An opposition politician who ran for president in Uganda's recent elections was found not guilty of rape Tuesday. The main contender to the country's president...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 07 March 2006 Israel's election campaign began on Tuesday with different parties unveiling their campaign ads, and the candidates stepping up attacks against each other. VOA's...
By Marlene Smith Vienna 07 March 2006 The International Atomic Energy Agency resumed closed talks Tuesday on Iran's nuclear program in an effort to avoid escalation in the stand-off with the Islamic R...
By Michael Drudge London 07 March 2006 The attorney general of the United States has conceded mistakes were made in the handling of some prisoners captured in the war on terror, but he has told a Euro...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 07 March 2006 Kenyan demonstrators carrying placards as they march in the streets of Nairobi Thousands of Kenyans took to the streets Tuesday to protest against last week's g...
By Mohamed Elshinnawi Washington, D.C. 07 March 2006 watch IAEA report A defiant Iran warned the International Atomic Energy Agency that it would press ahead with uranium enrichment if the agency push...
By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 07 March 2006 Australian Prime Minister John Howard says his government will watch closely to see how India and the United States work out the details of their groundbreaki...
