By Michael Bowman Washington 17 March 2008 The image of the United States has suffered as a result of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein. Opinion surveys show international approval of the United States at all-time lows. VOA'...
By Naomi Martig Hong Kong 17 March 2008 Stock markets in Japan and Hong Kong plummeted on fears that even heavyweights in the financial sector could collapse in the U.S sub-prime mortgage crisis. As Naomi Martig reports from Hong Kong, the U.S. dolla...
By Daniel Schearf Irbil 17 March 2008 U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney paid a visit to Baghdad just before the five-year anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. The vice president hailed progress in Iraq and promised continued support from Washi...
By Stefan Bos Budapest 17 March 2008 Officials say three U.N. police officers and two NATO soldiers were wounded in an explosion in Kosovo as they stormed a courthouse occupied by Serb protesters who oppose the region's breakaway from Serbia. At leas...
By Steve Herman Islamabad 17 March 2008 Pakistan's parliament has convened in Islamabad, but nothing significant is expected to happen until later this month when a new government is installed. But as VOA Correspondent Steve Herman reports from the c...
By Zulima Palacio Washington 17 March 2008 The chairman of a key U.S. House subcommittee, along with health advocates,last weekurged that the United States spend more to address basic health needs of children and pregnant mothers in the developing wo...
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 17 March 2008 The international organization Human Rights Watch says in a new report that much of the political and ethnic violence that followed Kenya's disputed presidential elections was methodically organized. The organiza...
By Luis Ramirez Bangkok 17 March 2008 A lawyer for alleged international arms trafficker Viktor Bout says Thai tried to force Bout to go to the United States, following his arrest in Thailand, earlier this month. VOA's Luis Ramirez reports from Bangk...
By Deborah Tate Washington 17 March 2008 Five years after the start of the Iraq war, many Americans believe the invasion was a mistake and favor bringing U.S. troops home. Those attitudes are playing out daily in the U.S. presidential campaign. VOA's...
By Mohamed Elshinnawi Washington 17 March 2008 The Library of Congress has been preparing for the digital age since the 1960's, when it used early technology to create and share its bibliographic information in electronic form. In the 1990's, the lib...
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 17 March 2008 Kremlin leaders are offering a positive assessment about the future of U.S.-Russian relations, but caution that a number of difficult issues continue to separate the two sides, particularly those involving missi...
By Sonja Pace London 17 March 2008 A new Red Cross report says that five years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, many Iraqis still lack adequate access to basic health care, sanitation and clean drinking water. VOA's Sonja Pace has more from Londo...
By Bill Rodgers Washington 17 March 2008 Five years ago, on March 20, 2003, U.S.-led forces invaded Iraq to overthrow a dictatorship that President Bush accused of developing weapons of mass destruction. No WMD were ever found. As VOA's Bill Rodgers...
By Daniel Schearf Irbil 17 March 2008 Five years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, officials say the situation in the country has vastly improved - if only in the last year. But human rights organizations say abuses are widespread, and most Iraqis...
By George Dwyer Washington 17 March 2008 Britain's Ministry of Defense last week announced the accidental killing of 4 civilians as a result of an air strike by British forces operating in Afghanistan. While reports of civilian deaths are on the rise...
