TEHRAN, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- One of the three detained (被扣留的) U.S. hikers(徒步旅行者) left Iran on Tuesday evening after being released on bail of 500,000 U.S. dollars few hours earlier. Xinhua reporter was told in Tehran's Mehra...
As the U.N. Security Council prepared to discuss the situation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, gunmen attacked the town of Uvira, near the border with Burundi, and a human rights group criticized the Congolese military's actions in its camp...
Terror suspect Binyam Mohamed, who was a British resident, has returned to the United Kingdom after being released from Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, where he had been held by U.S. military authorities for more than four years. Mohamed says he went...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 13 August 2007 South Korea says two hostages freed by Taleban insurgents in Afghanistan are now under South Korean protection. VOA's Kurt Achin reports from Seoul, where authorities still face the problem of getting 19 other capti...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 04 July 2007 Kidnapped BBC Journalist Alan Johnston, freed from captivity in Gaza early Wednesday, has described his experiences in a meeting with the media in Jerusalem. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau...
By Sonja Pace London 06 April 2007 A day after returning home from nearly two weeks' captivity in Iran, some of the 15 British sailors and marines spoke openly about their ordeal - of being kept in isolation, blindfolded, hearing guns cocked behind t...
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 21 March 2007 The Italian journalist who was kidnapped in Afghanistan two weeks ago said on his return to Rome that he has no plans to return to Afghanistan. Sabina Castelfranco reports for VOA from Rome. Daniele Mastrogia...
By David Lewis Kinshasa 09 July 2006 Congolese militia fighters released Saturday the five remaining Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers they have been holding since late May, U.N. officials have said. In other developments, gunmen killed a journalist who wa...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 03 January 2006 Uganda's main opposition leader, Kizza Besigye Ugandan opposition politician Kizza Besigye hit the campaign trail Tuesday following his release from prison on...