Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Zimbabwe's unity government has agreed on key appointments in an attempt to resolve the political impasse that has paralyzed the new administration. Zimbabwean PM Morgan Tsvangirai (L) addresses a press conferen...
Presidential campaigning is under way in Mauritania. But the country's former military ruler has delayed the start of his campaign to give international mediators more time to resolve the country's political crisis. Campaigning began without the man...
A U.S. congressional committee has approved legislation that would provide Pakistan with billions of dollars in economic aid over the next five years. VOA's Dan Robinson reports from Capitol Hill, lawmakers on the House of Representatives Foreign Af...
A consortium of United Nations and private aid and financial organizations are calling for urgent investment in the health of mothers and children in Asia and the Pacific. The consortium, called the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child-Health...
Bowing to public and political pressure, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government has announced a major policy u-turn that will allow nearly 40,000 veteran Gurkha soldiers the right to settle in Britain. The tough Nepalese fighters have been a part...
The World Health Organization says there has been a sharp drop in the number of deaths among children under age five. The just released report, World Health Statistics 2009, shows 27 percent fewer children died in 2007, the last year for which stati...
Tamil communities across Southeast Asia are preparing to contribute aid to thousands of Sri Lankan Tamils displaced by the fighting that ended almost three decades of conflict. But the fighting that claimed thousands of lives over recent months has...
In Iraq, at least 25 people have been killed in three separate attacks. The recent upsurge in violence has many Iraqis worried. Khaleel Mahood mourns over his brother's body after he was killed in a suicide bombing in Kirkuk, Iraq, 21 May 2009 In th...
Pakistan's military chief has held low-key talks with his Australian counterparts Wednesday and agreed to step-up counterterrorism cooperation as his country targets pro-Taliban militants in the Swat Valley. Australia also plans to send additional h...
U.N. aid agencies say they are being denied access to some camps for displaced people in northern Sri Lanka, hindering their ability to help Tamil civilians displaced by the recent fighting between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels. Sri Lanka...
