By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 30 August 2007 Taleban insurgents in Afghanistan freed the remaining three South Korean hostages late Thursday bringing to an end a six-week drama that saw two of the 23 original captives executed. Earlier in the day four o...
By Phuong Tran N'Djamena, Chad 29 August 2007 Mauritanian nomad children, Messaouda and Lala Fatma in Marseique village Decades of drought in the Sahel desert and its vast mineral reserves, have forced nomads to defend their pastures from both farmer...
By Peter Fedynsky Kara Suu, Kyrgyzstan 29 August 2007 When the vast lands of the former Soviet Union comprised a single nation, borders between constituent republics did not significantly hinder trade and travel among them. But after the Soviet colla...
By Tendai Maphosa London 29 August 2007 A statue of Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, is seen after it was unveiled in Parliament Square, London, 29 Aug 2007 A three-meter bronze statue of former South African President Nelson Mandela...
By Suzanne Chislett London 29 August 2007 The southeast Asian nation of Burma is famously secretive. A military government has run the country since the army put down anti-government riots in 1988. The opposition party leader Aung San Suu Kyi has sp...
By Greg Flakus Houston 29 August 2007 Two years ago Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf coast of the United States, devastating a wide area from Louisiana to Alabama, with an especially tragic outcome in the city of New Orleans, where a surge of water...
By Jim Stevenson Washington 29 August 2007 Sixteen teams are preparing to compete next month in the FIFA Women's World Cup football [soccer] tournament in China. One of them is the United States, which has been playing on home soil in a so-called Se...
By Dorian Jones Istanbul 29 August 2007 Turkey's new President Abdullah Gul, foreground, arrives for a graduation ceremony at the Military Medical Academy in Ankara, 29 Aug 2007 Turkey's new president Abdullah Gul has approved the new cabinet submitt...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 29 August 2007 At its regional meeting in the Republic of Congo this week, the World Health Organization called for African governments to improve sanitation in an effort to cut the number of deadly cholera infections on the cont...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 29 August 2007 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, left, with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting at Olmert's residence in Jerusalem, 28 Aug 2007 Expectations are low for a Middle East peace agreement...
By Sonja Pace Cairo 29 August 2007 U.S. troops in Baghdad briefly detained eight Iranians before releasing them and turning them over to Iraqi officials early Wednesday. The move comes amid heightened recriminations between Tehran and Washington, as...
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar, Senegal 29 August 2007 More than a 250,000 residents of Liberia's capital, Monrovia, have been overwhelmed by water from torrential rains and flooding from the nearby St. Paul River. The rains have left them without safe drink...
By Ron Corben Bangkok 29 August 2007 Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont says some progress is being made in reducing violence in the country's southern provinces, which have been wracked by Muslim separatist violence. Mr. Surayud made the comment...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 29 August 2007 Indian authorities have imposed a curfew in the northern city of Agra after one person was killed and several others injured in violent clashes triggered by a road accident. As Anjana Pasricha reports from...
By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 29 August 2007 Philippine security forces are on high alert for possible attacks by communist rebels after Dutch authorities arrested their exiled leader in the city of Utrecht. VOA's Heda Bayron reports from our Asia News Ce...
