By Tendai Maphosa London 21 September 2007 The Zimbabwean ambassador to the United Nations has accused British Prime Minister Gordon Brown of trying to dictate who should attend the European Union-African Union summit by threatening to stay away if P...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 21 September 2007 The United Nations refugee agency says Iraqis top the list of people seeking asylum in 36 of the world's richest countries. A new report shows asylum applications in industrial countries filed by Iraqis rose 4...
By Simon Marks Islamabad, Pakistan 21 September 2007 Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, facing growing calls to chart a return to Democracy, indicated Wednesday he will quit as army chief if he is re-elected. Eight years after seizing power in a m...
By Selah Hennessy Dakar 21 September 2007 A suspected Ebola death has been reported in another province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, raising fears that the virus may be spreading. But the World Health Organization says that with new mobile la...
By Kari Barber Dakar 21 September 2007 Sierra Leone's newly elected president Ernest Koroma began his first foreign trip Friday since taking office. He stopped first in Guinea and continued on to Liberia where meetings are planned on bolstering secur...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 21 September 2007 FBI Director Robert Mueller says transatlantic cooperation against terrorism is improving - and is vital for Europe and the United States to be able to successfully counter threats. Mueller is on a tour of Europ...
By Mohamed Elshinnawi Washington 21 September 2007 Members of a Turkish American interfaith support group held their second annual Congressional Ramadan Iftar dinner earlier this week (Wednesday, 19 September) in Washington, D.C. U.S. lawmakers, Musl...
By Jim Malone Washington 21 September 2007 Senator Barack Obama of Illinois hopes to become the first African-American president in U.S. history. But to do so, he will first have to defeat Democratic rivals, who include the current frontrunner, Senat...
By Brian Wagner Miami 21 September 2007 Chile's supreme court has approved the extradition of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori to face charges of human rights abuse and corruption at home. In Miami, VOA's Brian Wagner reports the ruling end...
By Ade Astuti and Susy Tekunan Washington 21 September 2007 Muslims around the world are in the midst of marking the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. It is a time when Muslims fast from dawn to dusk while focusing on prayers, charity and personal accou...
By Jim Randle Baghdad 21 September 2007 The U.S. Embassy resumed limited travel by road with Blackwater USA protection in Baghdad on Friday. As VOA's Jim Randle reports, the move came just days after all travel by land by U.S. officials was suspended...
By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 21 September 2007 A decision by South Africa's Congress of South African Trade Unions to endorse former deputy president Jacob Zuma to become president of the African National Congress has prompted outrage from the rul...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 21 September 2007 Israelis are observing the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur under tight security. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, the holiday coincides with a major Muslim observance, raising tensions in...
By Gary Thomas Washington 21 September 2007 The U.S.-led ouster of Saddam Hussein in Iraq had the side effect of removing Iran's biggest enemy. But things have not gone as smoothly in post-Saddam Iraq as the U.S. had hoped. U.S. officials have compla...
By Daniel Schearf Islamabad 21 September 2007 Islamist political parties have added their voice to charges that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's bid for re-election is unconstitutional. The movement against Mr. Musharraf's candidacy was also jo...
