The government of Ivory Coast's incumbent president is rejecting calls for more U.N. peacekeepers, saying the entire force should leave the country because it is violating its neutrality. The head of U.N. peacekeeping wants as many as 2,000 additiona...
African leaders are in Abidjan for more talks with Ivory Coast's rival presidents. The country's political crisis has sent thousands of refugees into Liberia. Leaders met with defiant Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo Monday, offering him an amnes...
France and Britain are standing shoulder-to-shoulder in a new defence alliance. The British Prime Minister David Cameron and the French President Nicolas Sarkozy signed two new defence treaties this week that include joint training exercises for a ne...
FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. The eighteen eighties were years of important change in American business and industry. Twenty years after the Civil War, the Unitedbl States had become one...
President Obama is scheduled to visit Australia this month following a trip to Indonesia. In Australia he will be among friends and will be the guest of a center-left government that shares many of the president's policies on Afghanistan and climate...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Experts say that agriculture provides fourteen percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions each year. The gases released include carbon dioxide, a major cause of global warming. Twenty-one natio...
U.S. President Barack Obama said his goal is to help create a stronger NATO. Mr. Obama said he wants to see an invigorated NATO presence in Afghanistan. NATO celebrates its 60th anniversary at the end of next week with a summit in the heart of Europ...
