The U.S. Navy says it is on heightened alert after receiving what it calls credible al-Qaida threats against American warships and commercial vessels in the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea, and the Persian Gulf. The latest threat from Osama bin Laden's...
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA IN VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. One of the world's great natural wonders is in the state of New Mexico, in the American Southwest. Nature has created huge moving hills of pure white sand. These sand du...
Elie Wiesel, left, Rabbi Slomo Koves, center, and Rabbi Baruch Oberlander look at a WWII Hungarian Nazi propaganda poster while visiting the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest, 10 Dec. 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner, author and activist Elie Wiesel...
In March, the virus caught the attention of health officials in Mexico when cases of a flu-like illness were reported in the state of Veracruz. The transmission of the virus was so rapid that by mid-June the WHO declared the first flu pandemic in mor...
Photo: VOA Protesters converged on a high school in Sterling, Illinois where a state commission was holding a public meeting on the possible sale of a prison The Illinois State Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability held a public hea...
A UN investigation into September's killing of opposition protesters in Guinea says military leaders were directly involved in the violence. Guinea's military blames the killing on political opponents and 'uncontrollable elements' of the army. Scott...
Kurt Achin | Seoul 17 December 2009 A South Korean nuclear power plant South Korea is looking toward a low-carbon future that likely includes boosting nuclear power consumption. The buildup of nuclear waste in the South creates a problem, however, an...
Military officials in the Central African Republic say they have retaken a key northern town that was captured by rebels last week. Scott Stearns | Dakar 30 November 2009 Central African Republic President Francois Bozize (file photo) Military offici...
By Ricci Shryock Dakar 11 November 2009 Captain Moussa Dadis Camara (File photo) At mediation talks in neighboring Burkina Faso, Guinea's ruling military says there is no way their current leader, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, will relinquish his rol...
A Former military leader, General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, has won Mauritania's presidential election. Gen. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, left, speaks to the press shortly after being declared the victor in the previous day's presidential election, in ce...
