By Lisa Bryant Paris 07 December 2007 NATO foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels Friday to discuss a number of issues, including the alliance's role in Kosovo and Afghanistan, and the admission of new members. Lisa Bryant has more from Paris. In...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 06 December 2007 The NATO meeting is planned just three days before a December 10 deadline set by the United Nations to come up with some kind of resolution on Kosovo. That is unlikely to happen since talks between Kosovo and Ser...
By Edward Yeranian Beirut 24 November 2007 Lebanon's Prime Minister Fuad Siniora says his care-taker government will temporarily assume the powers of Lebanon's president, until parliament is able to elect a successor to Emile Lahoud, who left offic...
By Barry Newhouse Islamabad 10 November 2007 Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto joined protests in the capital against emergency rule Saturday and tried to meet with the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. VOA's Barry Newhouse rep...
By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 29 October 2007 North Korean Prime Minister Kim Yong Il ended his visit to Vietnam, where he traveled from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City. Kim is responsible for running North Korea's economy, and is believed to want to apply less...
By Al Pessin Kyiv 21 October 2007 Turkey's defense minister told U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates the United States must take tangible action against Kurdish guerrillas in Northern Iraq, whose latest attack killed at least 12 Turkish soldiers, wou...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 16 October 2007 India's Prime Minister has told President Bush that his government is facing problems finalizing a controversial civilian nuclear-energy agreement with the United States. As Anjana Pasricha reports from Ne...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 09 October 2007 French Interior Minister Michele Alliot Marie has called for closer European cooperation to fight security threats. Lisa Bryant reports from Paris that the minister says France will make this a priority when it ta...
By Selah Hennessy Dakar 05 October 2007 A Congolese government spokesman announced Friday that the country's transport minister has been fired for incompetence, after a deadly plane crash Thursday left at least 37 people dead. As the flames from the...
By Margaret Besheer United Nations 03 October 2007 Following a week of intense international pressure on Iran to comply with U.N. resolutions demanding it suspend uranium enrichment, Tehran's top diplomat says his country is cooperating with the U.N....