Independent Fundraising Groups Influencing US Voters All that money flooding into the presidential campaign pays for negative ads. But all that campaign fundraising and negative advertising has sparked a backlash that recently led to the steps of the...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Today we talk about tomatoes. Tomatoes are generally easy to grow. Experts at the University of Illinois Extension suggest you start seeds indoors if the ground is still cold. For best results with...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. True or false? Potatoes are root vegetables. False. Potatoes are underground stems called tubers. Most kinds of potatoes can be planted during cool weather. But John Masiunas of the University of I...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 24 September 2007 The spokesman for the new Eritrea-based Somali opposition alliance tells VOA that the group's Islamist-led forces are in an all-out war against Ethiopian troops in Somalia in a bid to oust the Ethiopians from t...
By Brian Padden Washington, D.C. 08 June 2007 After September 11th, many religious leaders across the U.S. gathered to pray for peace and understanding. In the Midwest City of Detroit, one of the most ethnically diverse in America, Muslim, Jewish and...
By VOA News 08 December 2006 An author of the Iraq Study Group report says a continued rise in violence in Iraq could lead to a catastrophe in the Middle East. Charles Robb (VOA TV image) Former U.S. Senator Charles Robb of Virginia made that assess...
By Peter Heinlein Heinlein 03 June 2006 A high-level U.N conference on AIDS has exposed deep strategic differences between world leaders and rights groups representing victims of the epidemic. A final...