The man who has won Macedonia's presidential elections has pledged to solve a dispute with Greece over his country's name, which has delayed its entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Gjorgje Ivanov, accompanied by his wife Maja, left, g...
On Friday evening last I received from His Majesty the mission to form a new administration. It was the evident will of' Parliament and the nation that this should be conceived on the broadest possible basis and that it should include all parties. I...
Barriers of trees and other plants seem to work best when they let a little wind pass through. Transcript of radio broadcast: 28 July 2008 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A windbreak Farmers use different kinds of soil conservati...
By Nico Colombant Dakar 24 January 2007 Rebels in Chad say their positions near the border with Sudan are being bombarded, and the attacks could derail talks aimed at ending the low-level conflict which threatens to engulf Central Africa in a wider w...
By Deborah Block Washington, DC 05 December 2006 watch Nobel Prize Science Winners On Sunday, (December 10, 2006) this year's Nobel Prizes are being presented in Stockholm, Sweden. The annual awards are given to people who have made outstanding cont...
By Peter Heinlein Washignton 15 September 2006 George Clooney (left) and Elie Wiesel Actor George Clooney and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel have met with the U.N. Security Council to plead for prompt action to save lives in Darfur. The Oscar-winning fi...
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 22 June 2006 The Republican-led U.S. Senate has rejected two Democrat-sponsored proposals to begin withdrawing American troops from Iraq this year. -------------- US Capitol, Washington DC As expected, Republicans backin...
By Ray McDonald Washington 20 January 2006 Wilson Pickett, whose dynamic soul hits reflected his turbulent offstage life, is dead at age 64. VOA's Ray McDonald has more on the singer known as the "Wic...