By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 17 April 2007 The United Nations has come under attack in Afghanistan. Officials there say a roadside bomb ripped through a U.N. vehicle, killing five people. From Islamabad, VOA correspondent Benjamin Sand reports. Afghan...
By Steve Herman Kathmandu 17 April 2007 The U.S. ambassador to Nepal understands the need for a delay in elections in the Himalayan kingdom. In the meantime, he says, the United States will conditionally cooperate with government ministries now being...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 17 April 2007 Sudan has agreed to the first large deployment of U.N. peacekeepers and equipment in Darfur to bolster a beleaguered African Union force. But as VOA's Peter Heinlein reports from U.N. headquarters, weste...
By Jim Malone Washington 16 April 2007 President Bush faces major political challenges on two fronts this week, the war in Iraq and a controversy involving his attorney general, Alberto Gonzales. VOA National correspondent Jim Malone has a preview fr...
By Paula Wolfson White House 16 April 2007 President Bush invited military families to the White House Monday, as he stepped up his campaign for Congressional passage of a war funding bill without a timetable for withdrawal. VOA's Paula Wolfson repor...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 16 April 2007 The Supreme Court in Nigeria ruled Monday that the electoral commission unlawfully disqualified Vice President Atiku Abubakar from running for president, handing Abubakar the legal victory just days before the...
By June Soh Washington 16 April 2007 Watch video report on Micro Loans Many new immigrants and refugees in the United States find out that they have a hard time landing well-paying jobs. Even with business ambitions, they can face difficulties. VOA'...
By Larry London Washington 16 April 2007 Watch video report of The Who The Who They were punk rock before punk was rock. They were art rock, before rock became art. The Who wrote the anthems of a generation's rebellion against authority and conformi...
By Steve Herman Kathmandu 16 April 2007 Nepal's Maoist leader Prachanda during today's news conference, in Kathmandu, 16 Apr 2007 The leader of Nepal's Maoists, who joined the interim government earlier this month, has called for the nation to be dec...
By Carol Pearson Washington 16 April 2007 Watch Diabetes report Type 1 diabetes can affect anyone but it usually starts in people younger than 30. It is a lifelong disease, and there is no cure. But doctors recently tested a stem cell therapy that a...
By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 16 April 2007 Six cabinet ministers loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr quit the Iraqi government Monday to protest the prime minister's refusal to set a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. and other coalit...
By Noel King Khartoum 16 April 2007 U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, John Negroponte, on Monday, charged Sudan with actively supporting Darfur's feared Arab militias known as janjaweed. Negroponte called on Sudan to disarm the militias, which have lai...
By Margaret Besheer Baghdad 16 April 2007 In the Iraqi capital, illegal Sunni and Shi'ite groups are trying to shift the sectarian balance of neighborhoods to their favor. They use intimidation and executions to force residents of different sects to...
By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 16 April 2007 Indonesian police say a regional terror network has set up a new hit squad with a list of targets including police, judges and prosecutors. Chad Bouchard reports from Jakarta. During a police raid in central Jav...
By Paula Wolfson White House 16 April 2007 America is in shock and mourning, following the worst mass shooting in the nation's history. VOA's Paula Wolfson has the latest on a day of bloodshed at Virginia Tech University that left 33 people dead, inc...
