This presidential election season has been one of the longest, costliest and most complex in modern history, and mobilizing voters and the election apparatus for what is forecast to be a record-large turnout has been a challenge. With Election Day d...
Early elections in Israel could bring a change in power and a change in direction for the Middle East peace process. Robert Berger reports from the VOA bureau in Jerusalem. A picture of former Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is seen as part of a promo...
In Bangladesh, the Supreme Court has denied bail to former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a corruption case, effectively blocking her from taking part in general elections due to be held in December. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi for VOA o...
The president of East Timor has urged Australian resources giant, Woodside Petroleum, to support its plan to base a multi-billion-dollar oil and gas plant in his impoverished nation rather than in the Australian city of Darwin. From Sydney, Phil Mer...
The foreign ministers of Britain and France are heading to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda to try to stave off a further humanitarian crisis in eastern Congo where tens of thousands are fleeing advancing rebel forces, despite a cease-fir...
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is vowing to participate in her country's upcoming national elections. In an interview with the Voice of America in Washington, Ms. Hasina vowed to run despite a ruling by Bangladesh's Supreme Court den...
