Protesters recently marched by the State Department demanding pressure for democratic change in Ethiopia Members of the Ethiopian diaspora and U.S. human rights groups want the U.S. government to put pressure on its Horn of Africa ally Ethiopia to im...
By David Gollust State Department 11 January 2008 The United States has reaffirmed support for early action giving Kosovo what is called supervised independence under the plan of U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari. The U.N.-administered Serbian province is...
By Jeff Swicord Jerusalem 28 November 2007 In Annapolis, Maryland, the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority agreed to restart long-stalled peace talks. As the Mideast peace conference convened in the U.S., the leaders each spoke of the lon...
By Barry Wood Washington 03 October 2007 Little progress is reported in the negotiations led by Russia, the European Union and the United States aimed at reconciling the conflicting views of Belgrade and Pristina on the future of Kosovo. VOA's Barry...
By Barry Wood Pristina 12 August 2007 A new and possibly final round of negotiations to determine the status of the majority of ethnic Albanian in Serbian province of Kosovo have been launched in Belgrade and Pristina. VOA's Barry Wood reports what a...
By Barry Wood Belgrade 18 January 2007 More than five million citizens of Serbia are to vote Sunday in the country's first parliamentary election in three years. Soon after the election, Serbia's leaders will have to grapple with the future status o...
By Barry Wood Washington 24 March 2006 The diplomat chairing talks in Vienna on the future status of Kosovo says the talks between authorities in Pristina and Belgrade are progressing and could wrap u...
By Barry Wood Belgrade 28 February 2006 Serbia-Montenegro's Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic, left, with Martti Ahtisaari, in Belgrade, Feb, 28, 2006 Martti Ahtisaari, the United Nations chief negotiato...
By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 17 February 2006 watch G8 Democracy report Russia recently assumed the rotating presidency of the G-8, prompting a discussion in the United States about whether that c...
The past 200 years in the West have seen staggering increases in wealth and economic opportunity, and yet, there have been no comparable increases in our level of happiness. Despite being so much rich...