By Lisa Schlein Geneva 20 January 2006 The U.N. Refugee Agency, UNHCR, says the death this week of 20 Africans smuggled on a boat heading for Yemen underscores the urgent need for international action...
By Malini Bawa Washington, DC 20 January 2006 watch Journalist report An insurgent group says it will kill a kidnapped American journalist Friday, and deadly bombings claim more lives in Baghdad durin...
By Margaret Besheer Washington 20 January 2006 Two women cast their votes at a polling station in Iraq on Decemeber 15, 2005 As final results of January's election for a four-year parliament are annou...
By Ray McDonald Washington 20 January 2006 Wilson Pickett, whose dynamic soul hits reflected his turbulent offstage life, is dead at age 64. VOA's Ray McDonald has more on the singer known as the "Wic...
By Steve Herman Tokyo 20 January 2006 Japan has announced it is reimposing a ban on all U.S. beef products. Government officials say they were forced to make that decision after spinal material consid...
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 20 January 2006 As concerns over the spread of bird flu increase, Italian police have stepped up controls at sites that could be at risk. Thousands of chickens and eggs wer...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 20 January 2006 A top U.S. official says the United States is committed to implementing a landmark nuclear deal that will give India access to civilian nuclear technology....
By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 20 January 2006 The government of Nepal has imposed a dawn to dusk curfew across the capital and put opposition leaders under house arrest to stop an anti-government rally...
By Ben Gilbert Baghdad 20 January 2006 Iraqis stand in front of giant election ballot billboard in Baghdad Shiite religious parties in Iraq came up short of securing a majority in the new parliament a...
By Amelia Shaw Port-au-Prince 20 January 2006 Red Cross with victim of violence Haiti continues to struggle with violence and instability in the wake of its upcoming presidential elections in February...
By Gary Thomas Washington 19 January 2006 US Vice President Dick Cheney shakes hands with Pakistan's President, Pervez Musharraf, left Pakistan's prime minister is in the United States and is schedule...
By Paula Wolfson Washington 19 January 2006 U.S. intelligence officials say the voice heard on an audiotape aired Thursday on Arab television is indeed that of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. In the...
By David Gollust Washington 19 January 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, continuing a bureaucratic shake-up, is reorganizing the United States' foreign aid apparatus. She is creating what amou...
By David Gollust Washington 19 January 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, continuing a bureaucratic shake-up, is reorganizing the United States' foreign aid apparatus. She is creating what amou...
By David McAlary Washington 19 January 2006 The United States has launched the first spacecraft to the distant, icy planet Pluto. The distance from Earth is so great the journey will take nine years f...
