By Ernest Leong Washington, DC 07 September 2006 watch Lebanon Reconstruction Lebanese reconstruction is underway The fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon has left hundreds dead and billions of dollars of damage throughout Leb...
By Meredith Buel Washington 05 September 2006 Lebanese woman Zeinab Beydoun sits in her house that was damaged by an Israeli attack in southern town of Bint Jbeil, September 4, 2006 Lebanese officials say the month-long fighting between Israel and H...
By Noel King Akobo, Southern Sudan 22 August 2006 Disarming small militias is an ongoing problem in southern Sudan. Following a proliferation of arms during Sudan's 21-year civil war, rival villages in the region armed themselves, leading to violent...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 16 August 2006 Rubble of destroyed buildings in the southern town of Khiam, Lebanon, Aug. 16, 2006 The three-day-old truce in Lebanon continued to hold as diplomats scrambled to assemble an international peacekeeping force to...
By Jim Bertel Washington, D.C. 31 July 2006 watch Diplomacy report U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is on her way home to Washington today Monday optimistic that a comprehensive settlement to the Middle East crisis can be reached in the comi...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 23 June 2006 A new assessment of Africa's massive Congo Basin rain forest finds that it is less degraded than environmentalists feared. The findings were announced in Paris, where African and Western officials ended a two-day co...
By Scott Stearns White House 06 July 2006 President Bush says he is concerned about efforts to derail progress in Iraq, as the new government there works to establish more security. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, Mr. Bush met i...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 31 May 2006 A high-level U.N. conference on AIDS opens Wednesday with a report showing progress in fighting the epidemic, tempered by statistics showing that the virus is spreading. Dozens of heads of state and gover...
By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 27 May 2006 Indonesian villagers mourn eartquake victims in Bantul, Yogyakarta The powerful earthquake that struck the Indonesian island of Java early Saturday morning has killed more than 3,000 people and injured thousands...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 03 February 2006 Rescue efforts are still under way to find possible survivors of an Egyptian passenger ferry that sank in the Red Sea early Friday, carrying roughly 1,400...