By Challiss McDonough Tyre, Lebanon 27 July 2006 Southern Lebanon has been pounded by more than two weeks of Israeli airstrikes and artillery, which have leveled villages and forced roughly half a million people to flee their homes. The Israeli mili...
By Challiss McDonough Tyre, Lebanon 26 July 2006 A small group of Americans and Australians have made a perilous journey to safety from a tiny village near the Lebanese border. After the Israeli military offensive in Lebanon began, they spent two we...
By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 26 June 2006 South African police say they have uncovered a weapons cache and a large quantity of money at the Johannesburg house where four police officers and eight suspects were killed in a bloody confrontation on...
By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 11 July 2006 South African Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad, right, meets with his North Korean counterpart Minister Kim Hyong Jun, left, in Pretoria, July 11, 2006 A senior North Korean official said in Pre...
By Jim Malone Washington 25 May 2006 A boy scavenges for saleable items at Red Beach dump, on Tarawa, Kiribati Monday is Memorial Day in the United States, a holiday set aside to honor the nation's war dead. VOA national correspondent Jim Malone has...
By Rowan Reid Johannesburg 16 June 2006 South Africans have been celebrating the role played by young people in the fight against apartheid, three decades after their protests spawned a movement against white minority rule, which was finally ended i...
By Rowan Reid Johannesburg 16 June 2006 Students attend classes at the Meadowlands High School in Soweto (2000 photo) South Africa's Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says many of the country's school children are unable to receive a quality education...
By Rowan Reid Soweto 14 June 2006 Roughly 30 years ago, young black South Africans took to the streets of Soweto in a mass protest against the government's plan to make Afrikaans the teaching language in schools across the country. The event that be...
By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 08 June 2006 The lawyer for a Pakistani who disappeared in South Africa says he will bring to court government leaders he says were involved in the abduction, or rendition of his client. The South African government s...
By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 09 May 2006 In the wake of his acquittal on charges of rape, former South African deputy president, Jacob Zuma, has gone on the offensive in an all-out political comeba...