Sri Lanka Chooses Tuesday between Incumbent President and His Former Top General In Sri Lanka, The two proclaimed heroes of Sri Lanka's recently-ended civil war are facing off in the country's presidential election Tuesday. Both openly accuse the oth...
Humanitarian groups and wold renowned musicians are calling on the British government and world leaders to prevent Sudan from slipping back into what has been Africa's longest running civil war. Natasha Saini | London 09 January 2010 Protesters calli...
This past weekend, gun battles between federal forces and drug cartel gunmen in Mexico claimed more than 20 lives. One of the bloodiest incidents occurred in the resort city of Acapulco, where soldiers killed 16 gunmen. But there are signs that the...
This week marks the sixth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that deposed Saddam Hussein and established a fledgling democracy, but also unleashed political, ethnic and sectarian tensions that caused years of devastating violence. As the a...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. More than six thousand people died last year in Mexico's drug wars. So far this year the violence has only gotten worse. More than one thousand people have already been killed. Police have become common ta...
Tensions are rising in Northern Ireland as a policeman becomes the third murder victim in the province in the past 48 hours. Just like the two British soldiers killed on Saturday, the officer was gunned down. While politicians are united in their co...
Mexican President Felipe Calderon's fight against drug trafficking cartels in his country has produced an unprecedented wave of violence, especially in Mexican border cities like Juarez, where more than 1,600 people were murdered last year. There ar...
In Thailand, the government and opposition groups are being urged to restart talks after bloody street clashes. As Ron Corben reports from Bangkok, the opposition Democrat Party says a full investigation into the violence on both sides must be carri...
Residents of Pakistan's Swat Valley say hundreds of pro-Taliban militants surrounded a security post and abducted at least 25 police officers on Tuesday. Earlier, militants in the region claimed they killed three intelligence agents. VOA's Barry New...
Although Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party has agreed to talks with the opposition Movement for Democratic Change on a possible power sharing arrangement, the country's political violence and intimidation continue. Peta Thornycroft re...