By Phil Mercer Darwin, Australia 13 February 2008 East Timor's embattled government is preparing arrest warrants for 18 men believed to have been involved in the assassination attempts on the country's president and prime minister. Additional Austral...
By Phil Mercer Darwin, Australia 13 February 2008 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made a historic apology to the country's Aboriginal people for past mistreatment. Mr. Rudd said past policies of assimilation under which indigenous children w...
By Edward Yeranian Beirut 13 February 2008 Lebanon's pro-Iranian Hezbollah guerilla group is accusing Israel in the car bomb explosion in Damascus, overnight, that killed Hezbollah terrorist Imad Mughniyeh- wanted in dozens of terror attacks Lebanon...
By Cindy Saine Washington 13 February 2008 Senator Barack Obama has scored three decisive primary victories, Tuesday over Senator Hillary Clinton, winning big in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC in the race for the Democratic presidential nomina...
By Doug Levine Washington 12 February 2008 Life is good for Chicago bluesman Lurrie Bell. The singer and guitarist was recently nominated for three Blues Music Awards, and his latest album is riding up the blues charts. As VOA's Doug Levine tells us,...
By Margaret Besheer United Nations 12 February 2008 Representatives of nearly 60 countries addressed the U.N. Security Council Tuesday on the subject of children in armed conflict. They urged the world body to sanction parties that recruit children a...
By Paula Wolfson Washington 12 February 2008 President Bush marked African-American History Month in the United States with a ceremony at the White House, where he spoke of the need to purge the country of symbols of intolerance. VOA White House corr...
By David Gollust Washington 12 February 2008 The United States is seeking clarification of Israeli plans, announced Tuesday, to build some 1,100 new homes for Israelis in and around east Jerusalem. The State Department called the move a potential irr...
By VOA News 12 February 2008 Astronauts from the space shuttle Atlantis are formally opening the new laboratory at the International Space Station Tuesday. Crew members set up electrical and data lines linking the new Columbus laboratory to the stati...
By Michael Bowman Washington 12 February 2008 Amid record losses, the largest U.S. automaker is offering buyouts to tens of thousands of unionized workers. From Washington, VOA's Michael Bowman reports. Buyouts are a common strategy for companies hop...
By Peter Heinlein Zelanbesa, Ethiopia 12 February 2008 United Nations is set to begin withdrawing peacekeeping forces from Eritrea as early as Wednesday. Sources close to the U.N. Mission say the troops will be relocated to the Ethiopian side of the...
By Meredith Buel Islamabad 12 February 2008 Tens of thousands of troops are fanning out across Pakistan in an effort to improve security before next week's parliamentary elections. VOA Correspondent Meredith Buel reports from Islamabad that security...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 12 February 2008 A dozen West and Central African countries are pressing mining companies for a bigger share of growing revenues, discussing the issue with industry leaders during a two-day meeting this week in Guinea's capital,...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 12 February 2008 Nigeria's House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament, has opened a probe into allegations former President Olusegun Obasanjo spent $16 billion on the power sector, with no tangible result. For...
By Deborah Block Irbil 12 February 2008 Iraq security forces have launched an intensive search for a British journalist and his Iraqi translator, kidnapped Sunday in the southern city of Basra. On Tuesday, another journalist from Iraq was found shot...
