By Kari Barber Dakar 28 February 2007 Rape was a common means of abuse during Liberia's brutal civil war and it remains rampant despite the enactment of one of West Africa's toughest rape laws. Activists are calling for a specialized court to deal w...
By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 28 February 2007 watch Sean Maroney report Share prices in the Asia-Pacific region closed sharply lower following heavy selling in China and the United States. Government officials tried to calm the market, saying their econ...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 28 February 2007 The Southeast Asia group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), which has been blamed for a series of bombings over the past several years, has splintered into factions and may be heading in new directions. VOA's Nan...
By Greg Flakus Houston, Texas 27 February 2007 Last week, the Bush administration announced a plan to send U.S. inspectors to check trucks in Mexico that would then be allowed to cross over the border and deliver loads anywhere in the United States....
By Gary Thomas Washington 27 February 2007 The top U.S. intelligence officer says Pakistan could make more energetic anti-terrorist efforts along the Afghan border. But, he adds, Pakistan's military ruler has political concerns in an election year....
By Liu Enming Washington, DC 27 February 2007 watch MLK Sculptor report A master sculptor was recently selected to carve the image of Martin Luther King, Jr. for a memorial to the slain civil rights leader in Washington DC. VOA's Elaine Lu introduces...
By Zulima Palacio Washington, DC 27 February 2007 watch Peace Operations report The United States Institute for Peace just released the book Twenty-First-Century Peace Operations, the culmination of a four-year project to examine the origins and out...
By Leta Hong Fincher Washington, DC 27 February 2007 watch Genealogy report Strom Thurmond and Al Sharpton A new genealogical study shows that a prominent African-American civil rights activist is descended from a slave owned in the mid-nineteenth c...
By Sean Maroney Washington, Dc 27 February 2007 watch Supreme Court Hot Pursuit The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says more than 350 people die each year in police chases. These high-speed chases become especially dangerous when law...
By Peter Fedynsky Washington 27 February 2007 watch Iraq Micormanagement Democrats in the U.S. Congress have taken steps opposing President Bush's policies in Iraq, but have stopped short of binding legislation that would cut funding for the war. No...
By Scott Stearns White House 27 February 2007 U.S. President Bush says defeating terrorism ultimately depends on offering a more hopeful vision for the future. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns has the story. President George W. Bush looks...
By Jim Fry Washington, DC 27 February 2007 watch Bush Governors report U.S. governors who are meeting in Washington, DC this week say they are worried Iraq war deployments have depleted the readiness of their state National Guard units. President Bu...
By Noel King El Fasher,Sudan 27 February 2007 The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Luis Moreno Ocampo, on Tuesday revealed the names of two people suspected of war crimes in Sudan's embattled Darfur region, where fo...
By Jim Malone Washington 27 February 2007 One of the big winners at this year's Academy Awards in Hollywood was former Vice President Al Gore. Gore was featured in a film about global warming called An Inconvenient Truth, which won the Oscar for bes...
By David Gollust Washington 27 February 2007 The State Department said Tuesday the United States will attend two conferences on Iraq that might include dialogue by U.S. officials with counterparts from Iran and Syria. The Iraqi government is convenin...
