By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 16 July 2007 In Bangladesh, former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been arrested on extortion charges. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the detention comes just months after the military-backed interim administ...
By Arjun Kohli Nairobi 16 July 2007 Thirty five Ethiopian opposition leaders have been given life sentences for their role in the 2005 election protests that saw scores of people killed. Arjun Kohli reports from our East Africa Bureau in Nairobi the...
By Margaret Besheer Irbil 16 July 2007 The patience of the American public and many politicians is waning as Iraqi violence continues and political reconciliation remains beyond reach. An additional 30,000 U.S. troops have arrived in Iraq, as calls i...
By Dorian Jones Istanbul 16 July 2007 Seventy years ago, Turkey was one of the first countries to give women the vote. Seven decades later, there is only one woman in Turkey's 20-member parliament. From Istanbul, Dorian Jones reports on a new initiat...
By Liam Cochrane Kathmandu 16 July 2007 Nepalese Maoist rebels train at a camp in Makwanpur, south of Kathmandu (File) Nepal's former Maoist rebels are refusing to allow United Nations officials to continue verifications called for in the agreement t...
By Heda Bayron Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines 16 July 2007 House with solar panel unit in Patagan Electricity has yet to reach hundreds of far-flung villages in the Philippines. But a solar energy system project for the country's remote villages is...
By Greg Flakus Austin, Texas 16 July 2007 Rev. Richard Elwood, blesses the grave at the burial for Lady Bird Johnson at the Lyndon Baines Johnson National Historical Park in Stonewall, Texas, 15 July 2007 Former First Lady Claudia Lady Bird Johnson w...
By Roger Wilkison Bangkok 16 July 2007 The head of the United Nations nuclear agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, says his inspectors have confirmed that North Korea has shut down its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, a key step in efforts to halt the country's pr...
By Stephanie Ho Washington 15 July 2007 U.S. National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley says Washington still has concerns about North Korea's nuclear program, despite Pyongyang's decision to shut down its main plutonium reprocessing facility. VOA's St...
By Paula Wolfson White House 15 July 2007 The White House has rejected an appeal from two prominent Senate Republicans for a new approach to the Iraq war. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports the senators want the president to draft a revised war plan. John W...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 15 July 2007 Israel's elder statesman, Shimon Peres, 83, was sworn in Sunday as his country's ninth president, a largely ceremonial post that has come under a cloud of scandal in recent years. VOA's Jim Teeple also reports fro...
By Margaret Besheer Irbil 15 July 2007 One of the unanswered questions about Iraq's future is: can a federal system of government, one in which power is divided between a central government and regional or provincial ones, work in Iraq? VOA's Margare...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 15 July 2007 Bangladesh's army-backed interim administration has completed six months in power. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the government's widely hailed crackdown on corruption has earned it public suppor...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 15 July 2007 A wave of deadly attacks in Pakistan is raising fears of a widespread militant backlash days after government forces raided a radical mosque in the capital. Suicide bombings in Pakistan's tribal areas have kill...
By Kate Pound Dawson Hong Kong 15 July 2007 North Korea says it has shut down its main nuclear reactor, more than four years after the facility was re-opened. As VOA's Kate Pound Dawson reports from our Asia News Center, a top U.S. diplomat says that...
