By Lisa Schlein Geneva 09 February 2007 A U.N. human rights mission led by American anti-landmine campaigner and Nobel Laureate, Jody Williams, leaves on Saturday to assess the situation in Sudan's conflict-ridden province of Darfur. The team will r...
By Nico Colombant Dakar 07 February 2007 The outgoing head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast is making dire predictions about the future of the divided west-African country. VOA's Nico Colombant reports from Dakar. Pierre Schori U.N. mi...
By June Soh Baltimore, Maryland 25 January 2007 watch Mental Health report Michael Freeman, a former Harbor City Services employee, now has his own business Finding a job can be extremely difficult for those who are psychologically disabled or recov...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 23 January 2007 The U.S. Army general named by President Bush as the new coalition commander in Iraq told a Senate committee Tuesday he believes the new Baghdad security plan can work, but it will not be easy. VOA's Al Pessin r...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 11 December 2006 A United Nations mission, that was to be led by South African Archbishop and Nobel Peace laureate, Desmond Tutu, to Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip has been canceled, because the group could not get Israeli trav...
By David Gollust State Department 12 October 2006 The new U.S. special envoy for Sudan, Andrew Natsios, is making his first visit to the African country to press leaders in Khartoum to accept a United Nations peacekeeping force in Darfur. The former...
By David McAlary Washington 26 June 2006 Members of the space shuttle Discovery crew leave the Operations and Checkout building during a count down dress rehearsal for flight STS-121 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Flarida on June 15,...
By David McAlary Washington 06 March 2006 The newest American mission to Mars is hurtling toward the red planet, due Friday to examine it in the sharpest detail yet. It will be the largest spacecraft...
EXPLORATIONS - California Missions By Paul Thompson Broadcast: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: Mission San Juan Baptista, in northern California. (Photo -...
(Hunt can see and hear his mission when he puts on a special pair of sunglasses.) Swanbeck (from a recorded tape): Good morning Mr. Hunt. your mission, should you choose to accept it involves recovery...