Mauritania's military leaders are going ahead with plans for new elections in June, despite African Union sanctions meant to force the return of the toppled civilian government. Mauritania's military government says the African Union's decision to i...
By Cache Seel Cairo 31 May 2007 An Egyptian court has refused opposition leader Ayman Nour's request for early release from prison. Nour, who ran against President Mubarak in Egypt's only contested presidential election, made the appeal for health re...
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 24 May 2007 The U.S. Senate has voted down proposals that could have derailed a broad immigration reform bill. The action came after President Bush urged lawmakers to back the legislation. VOA's Deborah Tate reports from...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 05 May 2007 Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal blasted a U.S. proposal calling on Israel and the Palestinians to take concrete steps toward easing tension and building confidence. Under a four-month timetable, Israel would ease ro...
By Scott Stearns White House 20 April 2007 President Bush is again rejecting opposition calls for a timetable to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq, saying his new strategy is beginning to reduce sectarian violence. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stea...
By Dan Robinson Washington 16 February 2007 After four days of debate, the House of Representatives has approved, by a vote of 246 to 182, a non-binding resolution disapproving of President Bush's new troop deployment to Iraq. Majority Democrats cal...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 08 January 2007 A court in Egypt rejected the appeals of 13 new political parties, denying them official recognition and thus banning them from participating in elections. The move came not long after President Hosni Muba...
By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 02 December 2006 A powerful Iraqi Shi'ite cleric has dismissed a United Nations call for an international conference on Iraq. Abdul Aziz al-Hakim says it is unreasonable to discuss issues pertaining to his country in...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 02 December 2006 The ruling Islamic militant group Hamas has rejected demands from rival Palestinian leaders to resign. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, a power struggle between Hamas and the oppositio...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 24 November 2006 Palestinian factions have proposed a truce with Israel aimed at ending months of fighting in the Gaza Strip. But Israel has rejected the offer, as we hear from Robert Berger at the VOA bureau in Jerusalem....