Kenyan parliament members are calling for an investigation into the ownership and destination of a shipment of Russian-made tanks and other weapons aboard a Ukrainian ship seized by pirates off the coast of Somalia. The call follows a recent report,...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Lawmakers in Pakistan will elect a new president on September sixth. Officials set the date Friday. Presidents are elected by parliament and the assemblies of the four provinces. President Pervez Musharraf...
The Russian parliament has voted unanimously to recommend the government recognize the independence of the breakaway Georgian republics of South Ossetian and Abkhazia. VOA Correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports from Moscow the move could be a violatio...
The head of Nigeria's House of Representatives has warned that spiraling violence in the oil-rich Niger Delta is now a major national security threat. The warning came hours after gunmen abducted eight oil workers in three separate incidents on Frid...
Iranian missile tests have provoked widespread criticism in the U.S. Congress, where lawmakers called them provocative and urged stronger U.S. and international pressure on Tehran. VOA's Dan Robinson reports, Undersecretary of State for Political Af...
A member of Congress says there is no U.S. law that allows for the prosecution of people living in the United States who have committed crimes against humanity in other countries. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second highest-ranking Democrat...
U.S. legislators are responding cautiously to statements from Saudi Arabia that hint at possible further increases in oil production, saying the United States must do more on its own to reduce its dependency on foreign sources of fuel. From Washingt...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 13 June 2008 Democrats and Republicans in Congress have voiced concerns to a Bush administration arms control official about a U.S. - Russia civilian nuclear cooperation deal. VOA's Dan Robinson report from Capitol Hill,...
By Dan Robinson Washington 10 June 2008 U.S. lawmakers have questioned a State Department official about the validity of diplomatic assurances the United States receives from foreign governments that they will not use torture. VOA's Dan Robinson rep...
By Tom Rivers London 19 May 2008 British lawmakers voted Monday to allow the use of animal-human hybrid embryos in stem cell research. These new embryos will be created in labs injecting empty animal eggs with human genetic material. For VOA, Tom Riv...