Arab health ministers, meeting in Cairo, have agreed to impose restrictions on this year's Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca in a bid to control the spread of the H1N1 swine flu virus. The ministers are forbidding those under age 12 and over age 65 from pa...
Southern African ministers Thursday opened a meeting in Cape Town, South Africa aimed at drafting a plan to help Zimbabwe's economic recovery. The recently installed unity government reportedly has requested $2 billion in aid for this year from the...
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he expects NATO defense ministers to discuss how to resume their formal dialogue with Russia when he meets with them Thursday and Friday in Krakow, Poland. The NATO-Russia dialogue was suspended after Russia...
European Foreign Ministers have called for diplomacy rather than a military option to prod Iran to abandon its nuclear activities, despite lack of progress in talks with Iranian officials in Geneva. Lisa Bryant has more from Paris. European Union mi...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 25 July 2007 The foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan held talks in Jerusalem with Israeli leaders on Wednesday. It was the first-ever visit to Israel by leaders representing the Arab League. VOA's Jim Teeple reports from Jer...
By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 16 April 2007 Six cabinet ministers loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr quit the Iraqi government Monday to protest the prime minister's refusal to set a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. and other coalit...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 13 June 2006 Somalia President Abdullahi Yusuf, center, leave a meeting of IGAD, June 13, 2006 in Nairobi, Kenya In east Africa, members of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) are discussing ways of punis...
By Bill Gasperini Moscow 10 June 2006 Group of Eight finance ministers meeting in Russia say world economic growth continues, but they warned it is threatened by soaring costs for oil and gas. The ministers met in Russia's second city of St. Petersb...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 20 April 2006 Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, have failed to reach a consensus on how to push ASEAN member Burma towards democ...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 12 April 2006 Trade experts from all over Africa met Wednesday in the Kenyan capital as part of the African Union's Ministers of Trade conference. The conference's aim is to...