By Heda Bayron Bangkok 22 May 2008 Malaysia's ruling party has been thrown into turmoil after former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad abruptly resigned from the United Malays National Organization. Political analysts say the move was aimed at weakenin...
By Luis Ramirez Bangkok 08 May 2008 As hundreds of thousands of cyclone victims go without food, water and medicine, Burma's military leaders are refusing to grant access to international disaster teams who want to help them. The official death toll...
By Tendai Maphosa London 17 April 2008 The European Commission has said further delay in releasing Zimbabwe's presidential election results is unacceptable. As Tendai Maphosa reports from London the EU call is part of the ever-growing chorus for the...
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 09 April 2008 Western diplomats have called for Kenya's leaders to reach agreement on a power-sharing coalition, after negotiations broke down Tuesday. Diplomats say continuing foreign assistance and other cooperation will dep...
By Tendai Maphosa London 31 March 2008 Senior international legal experts and human rights activists say the U.N. Security Council should pressure Sudan to hand over two suspected war criminals to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The tw...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 22 March 2008 United States Vice President Dick Cheney is in Israel, the latest stop on a Middle East tour. As Robert Berger reports from the VOA bureau in Jerusalem, he hopes to advance the peace process. Vice President Di...
By VOA News 11 March 2008 Democratic New York state Governor Eliot Spitzer is coming under increasing pressure to resign after an article published in The New York Times linked him to a prostitution ring. The Republican minority leader of the state a...
By Dorian Jones Istanbul 27 February 2008 Turkey is continuing to send its forces into northern Iraq, in an operation against Kurdish rebels. The Turkish armed forces said it killed 77 rebels Tuesday and lost five soldiers. Since the incursion began...
By Scott Stearns Accra 20 February 2008 President Bush is in Ghana where American money is helping slow the spread of HIV/AIDS. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, Mr. Bush is again pressing the Congress to double AIDS funding over t...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 03 January 2008 The King of Jordan has pressed Israel's prime minister to stop all settlement activity in the West Bank, warning that it could endanger the region. The two men met in Jordan in a bid to push the Israeli-Pal...