By Steve Herman Tokyo 16 August 2006 Japanese FM Taro Aso, left, shakes hanads with Acting Ambassador of Russia Mikhail Y. Galuzin prior to their meeting at his office in Tokyo Wednesday, August 16, 2006 In the first such incident in half a century,...
By Lisa McAdams Moscow 16 August 2006 Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and his Russian counterpart, Mikhail Fradkov, say they have reached agreement on the price Kiev will pay Moscow for natural gas. But the two leaders failed to secure te...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 16 August 2006 Rubble of destroyed buildings in the southern town of Khiam, Lebanon, Aug. 16, 2006 The three-day-old truce in Lebanon continued to hold as diplomats scrambled to assemble an international peacekeeping force to...
By David McAlary Washington 15 August 2006 The U.S. space agency NASA has stepped up its search for the original videotapes of the first moon landing in 1969. The tapes are missing, but NASA does not consider them lost. They are of higher visual qua...
By Jim Malone Washington 15 August 2006 Early indications are that moderates from both major political parties could be vulnerable in this year's U.S. congressional midterm elections. Incumbent party-endorsed Democratic US Senator Joseph Lieberman a...
By Paul Sisco Washington, D.C. 15 August 2006 watch Solutions report Global warming -- you may accept or reject those who say it is a dangerous phenomenon. But if the planet is warming, and humanity is contributing to it, shouldn't someone be thinki...
By Paula Wolfson Washington 15 August 2006 President Bush at a meeting with the Homeland Security Team at the National Counterterrorism Center President Bush says almost five years after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, America is safer, bu...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 15 August 2006 Pakistan has rejected recent news reports linking a local charity with the alleged plan to blow up passenger planes headed to the United States from Britain. Officials insist money donated for earthquake rel...
By Franz Wild Korhogo, Ivory Coast 15 August 2006 Supporters of Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo block a road as part of a protest Wednesday, July 19, 2006 In Ivory Coast, rebel soldiers, who have patrolled the north of the divided country, are...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 15 August 2006 watch Truce report Israeli army commanders say that starting Wednesday, they will begin moving some troops back from positions they have captured in Lebanon in the past month of fighting Hezbollah. The U.N.-med...
By VOA News 15 August 2006 watch report on Ceasefire Hold A Hezbollah supporter carries the group's flag as he walks through the rubble from Israeli bombardments in the southern suburbs of Beirut A cease-fire between Israeli forces and Hezbollah gue...
By Paula Wolfson White House 14 August 2006 President Bush says Hezbollah militants in Lebanon suffered a defeat in their month-long conflict with Israel. Mr. Bush spoke at the State Department just hours after a fragile cease-fire went into effect....
By Challiss McDonough Yatar, Lebanon 14 August 2006 After a month of fighting in Lebanon, a U.N.-mediated cease-fire has taken hold between Israel and Hezbollah militants. Thousands of people are streaming back to their homes, despite government war...
By Margaret Besheer Beirut 14 August 2006 In the Lebanese capital, Beirut, the start of the cease-fire passed without fanfare. Many people in the capital remain skeptical that it will hold, but thousands of displaced people appeared more hopeful, le...
By Ernest Leong Washington, D.C. 14 August 2006 watch Multitasking report It's a busy, fast moving world many of us live in, one that frequently requires us to multitask -- perform several tasks simultaneously. Some scientists say multitasking may n...
