The top U.S. military officer says if current trends continue he expects to recommend further U.S. troop reductions in Iraq. VOA's Al Pessin reports from the Pentagon. Admiral Mike Mullen at Camp Barber, Afghanistan, 11 Jul 2008 Admiral Mike Mullen...
The U.S.-led Multinational Force turned over security responsibility for Qadisiyah province, also known as Diwaniyah, to Iraq on Wednesday. With that transfer, Iraq now has control over 10 of its 18 provinces. Iraq's national security advisor says h...
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expected to name his new High Commissioner for Human Rights as early as this week. The new official will replace Louise Arbour who stepped down June 30 after serving a four-year term at the Geneva-based body. Fr...
Asserting executive privilege, President Bush has refused to comply with a congressional request for documents relating to the leak of the identity of former CIA operative Valerie Wilson. VOA's Dan Robinson reports, a House committee delayed a vote...
Earlier this year, President Bush said the United States would spend $350 million over five years to fight seven of the world's most common parasitic and bacterial diseases affecting hundreds of millions of people in tropical regions of the world. A...
As Afghanistan continues its struggle to defeat Taliban insurgents and rebuild its infrastructure, the nation is finding strong support from the middle of the United States, in the state of Nebraska. Since 1973, long before Afghanistan gained world...
This is a great time to be in the seed business in America. Middlebury College economist Bill McKibben reports that Burpee, America's largest seed company, sold twice as many seeds this spring as it did last year. And that members of the Seed Savers...
The head of the Arab League has expressed concern about the decision of the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor to seek an arrest warrant for Sudan's president. As Derek Kilner reports from VOA's East Africa bureau in Nairobi, the Arab L...
Israel and the Lebanese Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah carried out a prisoner exchange Wednesday - swapping five Lebanese prisoners for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers. VOA's Jim Teeple has details from our Jerusalem bureau. Two years after the...
DNA tests have positively identified the remains of two children of the last Russian czar, settling a mystery that had long surrounded their fate. VOA Moscow Correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports the memory of the murdered czarist family is still hon...
One of South Korea's most powerful business leaders has avoided a prison sentence for alleged corruption. A South Korean court agrees the former chairman of Samsung evaded taxes, but it threw out more serious charges. VOA's Kurt Achin reports from S...
NATO forces in Afghanistan say they have fired on militant positions inside Pakistan after coming under rocket attack. The border region has experienced a surge in violence in recent months, raising tensions among Afghan, U.S. and Pakistani official...
South Korean officials are revealing what details they have so far of last week's fatal shooting of a South Korean tourist by the North Korean military. The full picture of what actually happened remains incomplete, however - because the North refus...
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has been taken into police custody in connection with sodomy allegations. Chad Bouchard reports from Jakarta. Anwar Ibrahim waves to photographers as he leaves Anti-Coruption Agency headquarters in Putrajaya...
Zimbabwe's Central Bank Governor Gideon Gono says the country's official inflation rate is now 2.2 million percent. VOA's Delia Robertson reports from our southern Africa bureau in Johannesburg. Zimbabwean foreign currency dealers conduct transactio...
