By Lisa Schlein Geneva 21 January 2008 The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan says instability is threatening progress in public health. Dr. Chan reviewed the global health situation in an opening speech to the 34-member...
By Robert Raffaele Washington 17 January 2008 On Monday, January 21st, Americans will celebrate the life of an African-American and civil rights pioneer, Martin Luther King, Junior on the U.S. holiday commemorating his birth. King's actual birthday i...
By Brian Wagner Miami 18 October 2007 Venezuela's National Assembly is debating constitutional reforms that President Hugo Chavez says are necessary for his so-called 21st century socialist revolution. In Miami, VOA's Brian Wagner reports that critic...
By Rosanne Skirble Washington 01 August 2007 Eleanor Holmes Norton Eleanor Holmes Norton is a third generation Washingtonian who says she was shaped by her hometown. My great-grandfather, Richard Holmes, was a run-away slave. Born in 1937, Norton gre...
....News. I'm Steve/ Inskeep, and I'm Rene/ Montagne. She turned course of the American history by refusing to move from her seat on a bus. Rosa Parks, the woman known as the mother of civil rights movement died at her home last night. She was 92.NPR...
By George Dwyer Washington 09 May 2007 A U.S. military commander has apologized for the killings of Afghan civilians by U.S. Marines in early March. Colonel John Nicholson told reporters in Afghanistan that he met Tuesday (May 8th) with the families...
Good evening, my fellow citizens: T his afternoon, following a series of threats and defiant statements, the presence of Alabama National Guardsmen was required on the University of Alabama to carry out the final and unequivocal order of the United...
By Andre de Nesnera Washington 11 September 2006 Five years ago, the United States was struck by the most devastating terrorist attack in its history. Subsequent investigations indicated that al-Qaida - a radical Islamic group led by Osama bin Laden...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 02 September 2006 Tens of thousands of Palestinian government employees, who have not been paid in months, went on strike Saturday. The labor unrest poses a major challenge to the Palestinian government, led by the Islamic...
By Greg Flakus New Orleans 25 August 2006 The American Society of Civil Engineers released a report in New Orleans Friday assessing problems with levees and pumping stations that led to the flooding of the city after Hurricane Katrina hit it a year...