By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 06 April 2006 The World Bank and Britain will send a team of investigators to Vietnam next month to look into possible fraud in aid projects worth tens of millions of dollars....
By Jim Malone Washington 06 April 2006 There was some emotionally wrenching testimony Thursday in the death penalty trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person tried and convicted in connection with...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 06 April 2006 Three Christian militants sentenced to death for killing Muslims during sectarian violence that shook Indonesia's Sulawesi island six years ago may be exe...
By Michael Bowman Lima 06 April 2006 In Peru, a left-leaning populist firebrand has surged to the top of public opinion polls before Sunday's presidential vote. In the first of a two-part series from...
By Nico Colombant and Karene Bassompierre Abidjan 06 April 2006 A micro-algae recently rediscovered by scientists is helping weak and sick people in West Africa. VOA's Nico Colombant reports from Abid...
By Margaret Besheer Washington 06 April 2006 Britain's Secretary of Defense says trained, capable Iraqi troops and a broad representative government are the keys to a successful Iraq, as well as the e...
By Dan Robinson Washington 06 April 2006 Demonstrators on Darfur outside US Capitol Activists pressing for stronger U.S. and international action on Darfur rallied at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday. As we...
By Dan Robinson 06 April 2006 The situation in Sudan's western Darfur region was among issues dominating a hearing Wednesday with the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton. Ambassador Bol...
By Margaret Besheer Washington 05 April 2006 Before the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States, the public had access to declassified documents concerning U.S. policy that were housed in the Nati...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 05 April 2006 The House of Representatives has approved (416 to 3) legislation that would place sanctions on Sudanese government and military officials considered responsi...
By David McAlary Washington 05 April 2006 New evidence from an orbiting U.S. telescope indicates that planets might rise up out of a dead star's ashes. This is the first time scientists have detected...
By Paula Wolfson Washington 05 April 2006 President Bush is continuing to pressure the U.S. Congress to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill. Prospects for quick action in the Senate are not g...
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 05 April 2006 For the past five years, Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has headed the center-right coalition government. It has been the longest serving government...
By Nico Colombant Abidjan 05 April 2006 As former West African warlord Charles Taylor seeks a defense team for his trial at the special war crimes court for Sierra Leone, human rights activists are ca...
By David Gollust State Department 05 April 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice went to Congress Wednesday to defend the Bush administration's nuclear accord with India, which she said is a "strat...
