By David Byrd Bethesda, Maryland 06 July 2007 K.J. Choi South Korea's K.J. Choi and Australian Stuart Appleby share the lead headed into the third round of the inaugural ATT National golf tournament in suburban Washington. AS VOA's David Byrd reports...
By David Gollust Washington 06 July 2007 Condoleezza Rice (file photo) The State Department says Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit the Middle East and Africa in an overseas trip beginning July 16th. She will meet Israeli and Palestinian...
By Arjun Kohli Nairobi 06 July 2007 Cattle-herding nomads from western Kenya confirm United Nations and aid agency reports that forces of the Ugandan army are using helicopter gunships and mortar against communities living on the Kenya-Uganda border....
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 06 July 2007 A growing number of Republicans are breaking rank with President Bush on Iraq, with Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico the latest to call for a new strategy. Domenici's comments come as the Democratic-led Se...
By Meredith Buel Washington 06 July 2007 The United Nations estimates there are now more than four million Iraqis who are either internally displaced or have fled the violence in their homeland to become refugees, mostly in neighboring states. Middle...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 06 July 2007 Amid growing pressure from the congress for the start of a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq this year, a senior U.S. commander in Iraq is warning that a premature withdrawal would create, in his words, a mess. VOA's Al Pes...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 06 July 2007 Officials in the tense delta region of Nigeria are searching for the three-year-old daughter of a British oil worker who was abducted on Thursday. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports that the kidnapping o...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 06 July 2007 International human rights activists and lawyers are condemning reports that Somalia's interim government has carried out its first formal executions since the government body was formed with international backing i...
By Imran Siddiqui and Zulequa Husain Washington 06 July 2007 Cities across the United States spend millions of dollars hauling away trash. But one man in Washington D.C. has discovered a way to persuade people to pay for things other people throw awa...
By Kari Barber Dakar 06 July 2007 After years of turmoil and economic hardship, the small West African nation of Guinea Bissau is facing a health challenge caused by the absence of iodine in the nation's diet. In countries where iodine is not already...