By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 30 May 2007 British Prime Minister Tony Blair continues his farewell tour of Africa in Sierra Leone Wednesday, the second stop in his three-country tour. The impoverished in west African country is where the prime minister is w...
By Selah Hennessy Dakar 30 May 2007 More than a quarter of the deaths of children under five in Senegal can be attributed to malaria. A U.S. government campaign to distribute mosquito nets and educate the population about treatment and prevention aim...
By Scott Stearns White House 30 May 2007 President Bush says he wants former U.S. trade representative Robert Zoellick to head the World Bank. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, Zoellick would replace Paul Wolfowitz, who steps down...
By George Dwyer Washington 30 May 2007 Ivory-billed woodpecker A North American bird believed to have become extinct in 1944 has apparently re-appeared. The Ivory Billed Woodpecker was rediscovered in February 2004 when it was reportedly spotted twic...
By David McAlary Washington 30 May 2007 U.S. health officials have quarantined an airline passenger who may have exposed others to a potentially dangerous form of tuberculosis. The unusual decision was made after the passenger took flights from the U...
By Ron Corben Bangkok 30 May 2007 A constitutional tribunal in Thailand has acquitted the country's second largest party - the Democrats - of slander and bribery linked to general elections held in April last year. The tribunal has yet to release its...
By Deborah Block Parris Island, South Carolina 30 May 2007 One of the training grounds for U.S. Marine Corps recruits is on Parris Island, in the southern U.S. state of South Carolina. About 17,000 recruits each year complete the challenging training...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 30 May 2007 Malaysia's top court has rejected a Muslim convert's appeal to be recognized as a Christian in a ruling that may come to define the limits of religious freedom in the multi-racial nation. VOA's Nancy-Amelia...
By Michael Bowman Washington 30 May 2007 President Bush says a primary goal of immigration reform is to bring millions of illegal aliens out of the shadows and provide a path to legal residency and eventual U.S. citizenship. But while the president c...
By Daniel Schearf Beijing 30 May 2007 The chief U.S. negotiator on North Korea's nuclear programs has been meeting with Chinese officials in Beijing to try to resolve problems in transferring money from a Macau bank to North Korea. Pyongyang has refu...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 30 May 2007 U.S. and Afghan forces in Eastern Afghanistan have killed at least six suspected insurgents. Violent attacks are on the rise throughout much of Afghanistan, including areas previously considered relatively secur...
By Phil Mercer Sydney 30 May 2007 Ministers from members of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum - known as APEC - have decided at a meeting in Australia that development of clean energy technologies should take priority over a carbon-trading...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 30 May 2007 North and South Korea have formally opened high-level talks in Seoul, but delegates from the North are remaining silent so far about Pyongyang's commitment to dismantle its nuclear programs. VOA's Kurt Achin reports fr...
By David Gollust State Department 29 May 2007 The United States Tuesday dismissed as absurd charges by Iran that three Iranian-Americans visiting that country were involved in spying. The charges were announced only a day after U.S. and Iranian diplo...
By Margaret Besheer Beirut 29 May 2007 Sporadic gunfire during the day between Lebanese soldiers and Islamic militants in a Palestinian refugee camp ended in heavy clashes just before sunset near the northern port city of Tripoli. From the Lebanese c...
