At least 13 civilians have been killed and as many as 40 wounded in fighting between Islamist insurgents and African Union peacekeepers in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. As Derek Kilner reports from VOA's East Africa bureau in Nairobi, the fighting w...
The Indian Army has claimed that Pakistani troops infiltrated to its side of the line of control in Kashmir on Monday and fired at its border post killing an Indian soldier. Pakistani officials have denied their troops crossed the border and blame I...
By Meredith Buel Manchester, New Hampshire 08 January 2008 Officials in the northeastern U.S. state of New Hampshire are predicting a record turnout in a critical first primary election to select the Democratic and Republican Party nominees for presi...
By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 27 December 2007 Indonesian rescue crews are searching for survivors of landslides on Indonesia's Java island. Officials say at least 120 people are dead or missing. Chad Bouchard reports from Jakarta. In the worst hit area,...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 09 November 2007 Hospital workers and residents in the Somali capital Mogadishu say more than 40 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded since late Thursday in battles between Ethiopian troops and Islamist-led insurgen...
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar, Senegal 29 August 2007 More than a 250,000 residents of Liberia's capital, Monrovia, have been overwhelmed by water from torrential rains and flooding from the nearby St. Paul River. The rains have left them without safe drink...
By Greg Flakus Houston 02 July 2007 Flooded streets in Gainesville, Texas, 18 Jun 2007 More than two weeks of heavy rains have produced floods in a large area of the central United States. From central Texas to Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri, rivers h...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 12 June 2007 In Bangladesh, rescue and relief operations are underway in the port city of Chittagong, where torrential rains have killed nearly 100 people. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi on the havoc caused by two...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 16 February 2007 Despite efforts by health officials to stop the HIV virus from being passed from a mother to her child, children in Africa are still at high risk of infection. HIV, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, causes AIDS....
By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 10 August 2006 A Sri Lankan army soldier injured in an early morning battle with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels near Tincomalee, 10 August 2006 Sri Lankan government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels are engaged...