By David Byrd Osaka, Japan 25 August 2007 Two Africans and an American have captured gold medals on the first day of the World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Japan. As VOA's David Byrd reports, Luke Kibet of Kenya, Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba and A...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 25 August 2007 Rebels in northern Niger have dismissed a government decision to impose a state of alert in the region. Niger's president issued a statement Friday declaring the alert, which gives government forces additional powe...
By Scott Stearns White House 25 August 2007 President George W. Bush speaks to Veterans of Foreign Wars, 22 Aug 2007 In his weekly radio address Saturday, President Bush says U.S. troop reinforcements in Iraq are helping to reduce sectarian violence...
By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 25 August 2007 Economic ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Japan have put the final touches on a free-trade deal, one of the largest in Asia. The ASEAN officials also have agreed on a blueprint that...
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 24 August 2007 President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday opened the Moscow International Aviation and Space Show, the eighth such event in the Russian capital since 1993. At the opening ceremony, Mr. Putin emphasized the need to d...
By Paul Burge London 24 August 2007 London is getting ready to host one of Europe's biggest annual street parties -- the Notting Hill Carnival. West Indian immigrants started the carnival as a local festival in the mid-1960s. It is now a much bigger...
By Tendai Maphosa London 24 August 2007 Aguy Georgias, an official in the Zimbabwean government, is challenging a European Union travel ban imposed on him and other ranking members of Zimbabwe's government and ruling party. From London, Tendai Maphos...
By Cindy Saine Washington 24 August 2007 Senator John Warner The U.S. military commander in one of Iraq's troubled areas has rejected a call by influential Republican Senator John Warner to begin withdrawing U.S. troops by the end of this year. Army...
By Tendai Maphosa London 24 August 2007 Amnesty International has released photographs it says show that Sudan's government is still deploying weapons to Darfur in what the rights organization describes as breathtaking defiance of a United Nations ar...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 24 August 2007 International humanitarian agencies and local aid workers in Somalia say they fear that camps for internally displaced people in the southern outskirts of the capital, Mogadishu, may be the target of a military op...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 24 August 2007 United Nations aid agencies say the situation in Peru's earthquake affected areas is moving rapidly from one of emergency to rehabilitation and reconstruction. But the agencies say there is still a great need of...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 24 August 2007 The Sudanese government has expelled the top Canadian and European envoys on allegations that they were interfering in the country's affairs. As Nick Wadhams reports from Nairobi, the expulsions raise new fears...
By Kari Barber Dakar 24 August 2007 Election officials in Sierra Leone say they will announce a date for the presidential runoff on Saturday. Final results for the first round came in Thursday with opposition leader Ernest Koroma leading outgoing Vic...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 24 August 2007 Pakistani political experts say the country's president, General Pervez Musharraf, faces a decidedly uncertain future a day after the Supreme Court ended his chief rival's seven-year exile. With elections exp...
By Phuong Tran Abeche, Chad 24 August 2007 Despite heavy rains that have made military battles almost impossible, smaller but deadly inter-communal clashes are still breaking out around the borders separating Chad, the Central African Republic and Su...
