Italian Prime Minister-designate Mario Monti, a former top EU commissioner, has been asked by the country's president to form a new government. The move comes a day after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's resignation, following international financi...
Haiti Rebuilds Slowly Under New Government, Prime Minister Nearly two years after a 7.0 earthquake hit its capital city, Port-au-Prince, Haiti is rebuilding. Slowly. Forty percent of the international aid money that poured into the island has still n...
Observers Doubt Burmese Government's Overtures Burma's normally defiant authorities have in recent weeks been welcoming their domestic and international critics for candid discussions. They have also slightly loosened their iron-clad grip on the medi...
Economics Report - Germany, France Seek 'True European Economic Government' 经济报道 - 德法提议建立欧元区经济政府以加强经济治理和预算税收合作 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英...
Withdrawal of al-Shabab Offers Hope to Somalia's Transitional Government Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) is offering amnesty to remaining insurgents in Mogadishu following the withdrawal of the Islamist group al-Shabab. But it is vowi...
Tension Rises in Egypt Between Government, Protesters Young people in a tent city at the center of Cairo's Tahrir Square chanted a song from the 1950s, with words updated to refer to their revolution, saying they want to return Egypt to what they see...
Syrian Government Forces Continue Crackdown Witnesses say that Syrian security forces moved into the Damascus suburb of Kaswah Saturday, a day after they surrounded the area and swooped down on protesters. A Syrian rights group says at least 20 peopl...
At the High Court in Kolkata, India, lawyers for Tata Motors contested a new law that allows the government to cancel its lease for a large plot of land that was to be used to produce the world's cheapest car. The land in Singur was acquired from far...
Somalia Government Postpones Elections to 2012 With its mandate set to expire in less than four months, the Somali government has decided to postpone national elections until 2012. On August 20, the original mandate bestowed to Somalia's transitional...
Lib yan Opposition Seeks to Build Self-Styled Government With fighting between opposition forces in Libya and forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in its third month (on April 17th), the rebels have begun to take steps to govern and administ...
