A new strategic plan for AIDS vaccine research was unveiled Tuesday. Its the culmination of an 18-month effort that included the input of 400 scientists worldwide. The new Scientific Strategic Plan developed by the Council of the Global HIV Vaccine E...
Iraq's interim government says war crime trials of members of the former regime of Saddam Hussein could begin as early as next week. In the meantime, at least two people were killed and as many as 13 wounded early Tuesday when, for the second time in...
The End of the Trial Here! cried Alice, and she stood up. She did not remember that she had been growing. When she stood up, the chairs and tables and other things and the people in the court room fell about here, there, and everywhere. Alice put the...
U.S. President Barack Obama is seeking to suspend military trials for terror suspects at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. President Barack Obama Late on Tuesday as party-goers were leaving the festive inaugural balls, President Obam...
A major arms and graft trial involving shadowy links between France and Angola has opened in Paris. Lisa Bryant reports for VOA from the French capital that the son of a former French president and a former French interior minister are among the def...
The former deputy chief of Indonesia's state intelligence agency has been charged with the murder of prominent human rights activist Munir Thalib. VOA Correspondent Nancy-Amelia Collins has more from Jakarta. Muchdi Purwoprandjono, center, is surrou...
The long anticipated trial of African National Congress president Jacob Zuma on charges ranging from corruption to racketeering will get under way next week in KwaZulu Natal. VOA's Delia Robertson reports from our bureau in Johannesburg the trial wi...
The United Nations is going green. The secretary-general has announced a new initiative to help lower the U.N.'s greenhouse gas emissions and reduce pollution. From United Nation's headquarters in New York, VOA's Margaret Besheer reports thermostats...
Court proceedings against former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra have begun, the first since he was ousted in a military coup in 2006. As Ron Corben reports from Bangkok, several other corruption investigations against the former leader, his...
By Jade Heilmann Dakar 21 December 2007 Six French aid workers from the group Zoe's Ark have gone on trial in Chad. The six are accused of the attempted kidnapping of 103 children who were discovered by authorities as they were being flown to Europe...