By Robert Berger Jerusalem 22 December 2007 The Islamic militant group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, is seeking a cease-fire with Israel. But Israel has rejected the offer, as we hear from Robert Berger at the VOA bureau in Jerusalem. Israel Rad...
By Selah Hennessy Goma 22 December 2007 A summit has been called in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to try to bring peace to the war-torn country. Conference organizers say they hope the meeting will initiate a dialogue between the army, reneg...
By Luis Ramirez Bangkok 22 December 2007 Voters in Thailand will cast ballots in a general election Sunday that is expected to return the kingdom to democratic rule following a military coup in 2006. It is a contentious race that pits voters for and...
By Brian Wagner Miami 22 December 2007 Cuba is hosting a summit of Latin American and Caribbean leaders to discuss a Venezuelan-led oil partnership. In Miami, VOA's Brian Wagner reports officials say the deal has helped keep oil flowing to smaller na...
By David Gollust Washington 22 December 2007 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday Serbia and Kosovo will never be part of the same country again, and all those concerned should work for a stable outcome in the Balkans based on that re...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 21 December 2007 Population statistics are hard to visualize, but an art exhibition in Los Angeles makes the numbers easier to grasp. Mike O'Sullivan reports that the exhibition, called Of All the People in All the Worl...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 21 December 2007 Most Americans spend time with their families over the holidays, but some enjoy traveling. Writer Chris Epting has found some unusual holiday destinations around the United States. He spoke with VOA's M...
By Al Pessin Washington 21 December 2007 The commander of U.S. forces in East Africa and the Middle East says he has ordered his naval commanders to take a tougher approach to pirates off the coast of Somalia, in an effort to help the region's econom...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 21 December 2007 Analysts and activists in the Middle East say the year 2007 in some Arab countries was marked by backtracking from the tentative moves toward more democratization and openness that had been seen in 2005 an...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 21 December 2007 The United Nations refugee agency says there has been a steep increase in the number of people seeking asylum in Poland since July. The agency says many of the new arrivals are from Russia's troubled regions of...
By Cindy Saine Washington 21 December 2007 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has criticized the U.S. Congress for providing only three months worth of funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The short-term funding means President Bush will ha...
By Alex Villarreal Washington, D.C. 21 December 2007 The Lebanese Parliament will make its next attempt to elect a new president on Saturday. The post has been vacant since late November, when the country's pro-Syrian president stepped down. As VOA's...
By David Gollust State Department 21 December 2007 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in a year-end news conference Friday, left open the prospect of better relations with U.S. adversaries North Korea, Iran and Syria before the end of the Bush admi...
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 21 December 2007 The European Commission and the United States are condemning the political violence that has been reported in Kenya in the run-up to next week's presidential and legislative elections. President Mwai Kibaki is...
By Cindy Saine Washington 21 December 2007 Public opinion polls show the economy, health care and illegal immigration are the domestic issues Americans care about most in the 2008 presidential race. VOA's Cindy Saine takes a look at the various domes...
