U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is calling on Pakistan to intensify efforts to combat Taliban militants who use its border areas to launch attacks against Afghanistan. Speaking to reporters in the western Australian city of Perth Friday, Ri...
By Michael Bowman Washington 29 May 2008 A U.S. government scientific report concludes that future decades will see significant climate change in the United States, caused primarily by human activity. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Washington. The...
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 12 March 2008 The government of Comoros says its troops have captured three rebel soldiers during a brief incursion onto the breakaway island of Anjouan. The incident occurred as African Union troops are arriving for a poss...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 04 December 2007 The fumes from household cooking fuels pose a huge and largely unrecognized health hazard to inhabitants, especially women and children -and India, with its huge rural population, suffers an inordinate nu...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 09 October 2007 Thousands of youths line up in Mauritania's poorest neighborhoods to see the mostly underground concerts of a homegrown rap group. Diam Men Teky does not win many fans in the government for their songs about corru...
By Dan Robinson Washington 29 March 2007 A detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba being escorted by two U.S. soldiers Arguments for and against the closure of the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba used for the interrogation and detention of suspected t...
By Jim Fry Washington 16 February 2007 watch Iraq reort U.S. military leaders are repeating claims that an elite Iranian military force supplied Iraqi insurgents with weapons and explosives. But the Pentagon's chief civilian leader and top military o...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 25 January 2007 At least two people have been killed and at least 20 others wounded at a Beirut university campus in clashes between opposition and government supporters. The army declared a curfew in an effort to restore...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 14 June 2006 Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has been released after 25 months in jail for the role he played in the deadly 2002 Bali bombings. Abu Bakar Bashir waves to supporters who surround him as he wal...
By David McAlary Washington 10 January 2006 Courtesy of NASA Artist's conception of Stardust spacecraft collecting dust from comet Wild-2 A U.S. spacecraft is returning to Earth with a precious cargo...