By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 23 July 2007 Ethiopia's Ogaden National Liberation Front rebels are urging the United Nations to launch a fact-finding mission in the Ogaden region to confirm mounting reports that the Ethiopian military is committing war crimes...
By Robert Raffaele Washington, D.C. 19 June 2007 America's tourism industry is expressing alarm over a sharp decrease in the number of international visitors to the United States. The downturn has prompted a consortium of American businesses to call...
By Ivana Kuhar Washington 29 May 2007 A Congressional hearing on Russia last Thursday reverberated with concerns over the deteriorating state of democracy in the world's largest country. Meanwhile, the U.S. government says it will continue cooperati...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 15 May 2007 A new report says that the world has more than enough sustainable energy and technology to curb climate change. But the group that issued the report, the World Wide Fund for Nature, WWF, warns key decisions have to...
By Michael Bowman Washington 09 May 2007 Colombian politicians and human rights activists visiting Washington this week say U.S. aid to their country focuses too much on military and anti-drug assistance and not enough on humanitarian needs. The dele...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 08 May 2007 Man walks along oil pipelines belonging to Italian oil company Agip in Obrikom, Nigeria (File) The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, the most prominent armed group in Nigeria's oil-rich N...
By Jeffrey Young Washington 01 May 2007 To most Americans, the governments in their towns and regional areas called counties are the governments they interact with the most. And alongside these local governments are groups of citizens who work on the...
By Nia Sutadi Santa Monica, California 30 April 2007 Orangutans are highly intelligent and are one of man's closest relatives. Found primarily in Indonesia, their name in English means People of the Forest. Just a century ago, their numbers were plen...
By Kokab Farshori Washington 28 March 2007 watch Countering Islamophobia The United States is home to almost two million Muslims, yet since the September 11 terrorist attacks of 2001, many Muslims feel they have been subjected to increased discrimin...
By Noel King Khartoum 22 March 2007 The human rights group Amnesty International says two women have been sentenced to death, by stoning, in Sudan for committing adultery. The sentence has raised questions about Sudan's penal code, based on Islamic S...