By Mil Arcega Washington, D.C. 08 June 2007 Oil producers in the Persian Gulf are breathing a sigh of relief as Cyclone Gonu weakened to a tropical storm. Shipping and port officials say the storm caused very little damage to major oil fields in the...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 05 April 2007 More than 100 women led a protest rally against a radical mosque in central Islamabad. VOA Correspondent Benjamin Sand reports from Islamabad the Lal Masjid mosque is at the center of a growing controversy, af...
By Jim Malone Washington 12 January 2007 U.S. President George Bush faces a difficult challenge, as he tries to win support for a new strategy in Iraq, even as opinion polls indicate much of the public no longer believes the war is winnable. But as...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 07 January 2007 Portuguese rider Ruben Faria steers his KTM during the 1st stage of the Lisbon-Dakar Rally, 6 Jan 2007 Almost 250 competitors set off Saturday from Lisbon, Portugal in the annual car, motorcycle and truck race th...
By Scott Stearns White House 02 September 2006 President Bush (file photo) President Bush wants to convince more Americans that the war in Iraq is central to preventing another terrorist attack inside the United States. Opposition Democrats say the...
By Catherine Maddux Washington 20 June 2006 Demonstrators stage protest over Darfur in front of White House Activists held rallies in several cities across the United States Tuesday to call for peace in Sudan's western Darfur region. Meanwhile, expe...
By Dan Robinson Washington 06 April 2006 Demonstrators on Darfur outside US Capitol Activists pressing for stronger U.S. and international action on Darfur rallied at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday. As we...
By Bill Gasperini Moscow 25 March 2006 Police in Belarus broke up a protest in the capital, Minsk, Saturday, after an earlier rally against the results of presidential elections. An opposition preside...
By Margaret Besheer Washington 08 March 2006 This week, the U.S. Senate will consider legislation that would define milllions of undocumented persons as felons and punish anyone who assists or encoura...
By Steve Herman Okinawa, Japan 05 March 2006 Musical protest in Okinawa Thousands of people have rallied Sunday on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa to express continuing opposition to the prese...