By Lisa Bryant Paris 13 November 2007 France is bracing for its second major transportation strike in a month, beginning Tuesday evening. From Paris, Lisa Bryant reports - although most French do not support the strike - it reflects wider discontent...
By Jim Malone Washington 26 October 2007 The war in Iraq, U.S. relations with Iran and the state of the economy are all expected to be major factors in next year's presidential campaign. In the fourth part of his series on the 2008 election, National...
By Jim Malone Washington 26 October 2007 Some conservative activists have raised the prospect of a third party candidate in next year's U.S. presidential election if former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani becomes the Republican Party nominee. In th...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 19 October 2007 The U.S. military's effort to rebuild major infrastructure in Iraq will be winding down during the coming year, leaving the Iraqi government to fund the effort and to find engineers capable of handling the projec...
By Rory Byrne Phnom Penh 25 September 2007 The recent discovery of two huge methamphetamine laboratories in Cambodia has led to fears that the country is becoming a major regional center of illegal drug production and consumption. Authorities say tha...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 05 September 2007 Israel is backing away from a broad military response to Palestinian rocket attacks that have terrified a border town. But as Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, it is considering tougher sa...
By Mil Arcega Washington 14 August 2007 On floor of the New York Stock Exchange (file photo) U.S. stock indexes ended nearly flat on Monday as worries about losses tied to subprime mortgages continued to drive shares lower. Major central banks in Eur...
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 28 June 2007 The U.S. Senate has again blocked a sweeping immigration reform bill, handing a key defeat to President Bush, who has made the issue a top domestic priority. The Senate action Thursday likely dooms the legisl...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 22 June 2007 In another major setback for international efforts to bring peace to Somalia, a violent power struggle between two sub-clans in the port city of Kismayo is fueling fear that an all-out clan war could erupt at any ti...
By Mohamed Elshinnawi Washington 01 June 2007 American Muslim schoolchildren Despite their deep dissatisfaction with the war in Iraq and U.S foreign policy, a major new survey found U.S Muslims--most of whom are immigrants--are largely integrated int...