By Carolyn Weaver New York City 06 December 2006 watch Darfur Diaries report Activists Aisha Bain, Adam Shapiro, and Jen Marlowe documented the crisis in Sudan In the spring of 2004, three young activists embarked on a mission to a part of the world...
By Michael Bowman Caracas 30 November 2006 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at reelection campaign rally 26 Nov 2006 Days before Venezuelans cast ballots in Sunday's presidential election, officials are attempting to reassure the public that voting...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 18 November 2006 Rival Palestinian factions are holding a third day of top-level talks aimed at forming a national unity government. The aim is to present a Palestinian government that would be more acceptable to the inter...
By David Gollust State Department 31 October 2006 The United States says it made no concessions to bring North Korea back to six-party negotiations over its nuclear program. Pyongyang agreed to return to the negotiations Tuesday at a round of secret...
By Jordan Davis Dakar 10 October 2006 This year the French-speaking world has celebrated the life of late Senegalese Poet President Leopold Sedar Senghor. He is widely celebrated for his influential writing about panafricanism and African identity b...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 04 October 2006 The Ugandan army has resumed patrolling areas of war-torn northern Uganda that were exempt from patrols under a truce signed between the government and a rebel group. Talks between the two sides are apparent...
By Scott Stearns White House 23 September 2006 In his speech to the U.N. General Assembly this past week, President Bush spoke of a more hopeful world beyond terrorism, where voices of moderation are empowered and extremists are marginalized by a pe...
By Meredith Buel Washington 11 September 2006 Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld led the memorial service to honor the 184 people who died five years ago, when terrorists crashed a plane into the Pentagon. Vice Presiden...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 06 September 2006 Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf met with his counterpart Hamid Karzai in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, to discuss ways to curb the sharp rise in attacks by the Taleban. Pakistan's leader vowe...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 20 August 2006 Indian minister for Communications and IT Dayanidhi Maran, right, and Chief Minister of Jammu Kashmir state Mufti Mohammed Sayeed during launch of network expansion in Srinagar, India (File photo) In India...