By Leta Hong Fincher Washington 29 June 2006 Watch Afghanistan Report U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has promised victory over a resurgence of Taleban forces in Afghanistan. Rice reaffirmed U.S. support for Afghanistan during a visit to Ka...
By Sonja Pace Jerusalem 29 July 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived back in Israel Saturday for another round of diplomacy to end more than two weeks of relentless fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. ---------- I...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 20 July 2006 NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has urged the international community to continue supporting Afghanistan's development. The secretary-general and the o...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 22 June 2006 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says he believes Iran is prepared to engage in serious negotiations regarding its controversial nuclear program. The secretary-general met with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 21 June 2006 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warns that the spread of nuclear weapons threatens to propel the world into a state of crisis. In a speech to the U.N. Conference on Disarmament, the secretary-general mentioned N...
By Ron Corben Bangkok 26 May 2006 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on Burma's military government to release pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest. Mr. Annan issued the call in Thailand on the last stop of a f...
By Meredith Buel Washington 07 February 2006 U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the military must continue to transform in order to defend America against terrorists and future threats that a...
Broadcast: February 8, 2003 By Cynthia Kirk This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, In The News. This week, American Secretary of State1 Colin Powell presented the Bush administratio...
Broadcast: Jan 30 2003 John Snow, the railroad executive tapped by President Bush to succeed another industrialist as U.S. treasury secretary, says the economy can sustain large budget deficits in the...
By Larry James Secretary of State Colin Powell's resignation and the reported selection of National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice as his successor is being watched with great interest in the Middl...