By Challiss McDonough Cairo 24 May 2007 Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora vowed in an address to the nation on Thursday his government would crush the Islamic militants who are battling the army in a Palestinian refugee camp. The U.N. says half th...
By Scott Stearns White House 04 May 2007 U.S. President George Bush and the prime minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong, met at the White House Friday to talk about security in South East Asia and the war in Iraq. VOA White House Correspondent Scott...
By Scott Stearns White House 10 April 2007 President Bush says he will veto emergency spending for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq because opposition legislators have attached timetables for a troop withdrawal from Iraq. VOA White House correspondent Sc...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 05 April 2007 In Ivory Coast, Prime Minister Guillaume Soro is finalizing who will be part of his new power-sharing government with President Laurent Gbagbo. Mr. Soro, who still controls rebel forces in the North, and President G...
By Kari Barber Dakar 01 April 2007 Congo troops sit on a tank in front of the house of ex-rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba in Kinshasa, Congo, 24 Mar 2007 Portuguese authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo confirm an agreement has been reached...
By Gary Thomas Washington 20 March 2007 The abrupt removal of Pakistan's chief justice has sparked a political firestorm around President Pervez Musharraf. Critics charge the president's decision to remove the judge was politically motivated. As VOA...
By Gary Thomas Washington 15 March 2007 According to a just-released U.S. transcript, accused al-Qaida operative Khalid Sheikh Mohammad has confessed to a leading role in at least 31 alleged terrorist plots, including the attacks of September 11, 200...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja, Nigeria 24 February 2007 Nigeria's president says escalating violence in the restive Niger Delta has taken on a criminal dimension. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa reports that militants are continuing assaults on foreigners in t...
By Matt Steinglass Ho Chi Minh City 22 February 2007 The renowned Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh has returned to his native Vietnam. Hanh, who has tens of thousands of followers in France and the United States, plans to conduct mass prayer ceremon...
By Barry Newhouse Sheikhan, Iraq 19 February 2007 Iraq's northern Kurdistan region has been relatively free of the sectarian fighting that has crippled the rest of the country, but a rare attack by Sunni Kurds on a religious group called the has loca...