Iran's Presidential Candidates Courting Female Vote When Iranians go to the polls on June 14, they will get to select one of eight presidential candidates - all but one older than 50 and all men. Iran's Guardian Council ruled last month a woman canno...
Syria's Disabled Refugees Lead a Hard Life in Jordan Every refugee has a story. For Osama, a 17-year-old from southern Syria, his began when his family tried to flee his government-besieged town. He related how in the early dawn hours, tanks stormed...
Best of Broadway to be Honored Sunday Sex is in the Heel is one of the show-stopping tunes that garnered Kinky Boots a Tony nomination for Best Musical. David Cote, theater critic for Time Out New York, says its 13 nominations are well-deserved. Kink...
Parents of Boston Bombers Regret Coming to America Wall Street Journal Moscow correspondent Alan Cullison has known the Tsarnaev family since 2003, years before the two brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev allegedly set off two bombs at the Boston...
Russia Wants Tourism, Not Terrorism, for Embattled Caucasus DERBENT, RUSSIA Car bombs and shootings make Dagestan the leader in political violence in Russias troubled North Caucasus. After Dagestan became known as the ancestral home of the two suspec...
Chinese-Americans Focus on Obama-Xi Summit One in seven Californians is Asian American, and many still have close ties with their family homeland. California's Chinese Americans have been preparing to welcome the Xi delegation, and they say they have...
Obama Announces New National Security Team President Obama announced that Susan Rice will move from her current post and replace Tom Donilon as his next national security adviser, one of the most powerful posts in Washington. Rice has been a controve...
Hagel Wraps Up World Trip Aimed at Reassuring Partners For Hagel, his round-the-world trip was largely about reassuring allies, first in Asia and later at a NATO defense ministers' meeting in Europe, that Washington's budget problems are not eroding...
Turkey Unrest May Impact Syria Peace Talks Turkey is a front-line state in the Syrian conflict. Turks have been the victims of bombings along the border and host to more than 200,000 Syrian refugees. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has been...
EU Solar Panel Ruling Sparks Fears of Trade War with China New estimates show Chinese-made solar panels account for about 80 percent of the worlds market share. But European manufacturers say thats because Chinese manufacturers are not playing fair -...
Obama, China's Xi to Hold Informal Meetings In California The formal welcome that awaited Chinas previous leader, Hu Jintao, in 2011 will be absent for Chinese president, Xi Jinping. Xi, when he was China's vice president, met with President Obama at...
Syrian Refugees Strain Jordan's Resources The scale of human suffering from more than two years of war in Syria is massive. At least 70,000 people have been killed. The United Nations reports the number of Syrian refugees in neighboring countries has...
Top 5 Pop Hits for Week Ending June 8 Were sampling the five most popular tracks on the Billboard Magazine Hot 100 pop singles chart, for the week ending June 8, 2013. It all starts in fifth place, where Florida Georgia Line - a Country act - joins f...
Female Senators Lecture Military Chiefs on Sex Assault A recent documentary alleges the military is crawling with sexual predators, and a new Pentagon report shows a 35 percent rise in cases of unwanted sexual contact in the last two years. Both have...
Transcript of VOA Burmese Service's Interview with Madeleine Albright VOA: Thank you very much Madame Secretary for giving me the chance to interview you. First of all, what is it like to be for you back to (in) the country after 18 years? ALBRIGHT:...
