By Peter Heinlein United Nations 29 November 2006 Iran's president has issued an open letter to the American people in which he criticizes U.S. policies in the Middle East. VOA's Peter Heinlein reports the letter was released at U.N. headquarters in...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 29 November 2006 U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland says the international community, governments and political leaders are in denial about the scope of the humanitarian crisis in Sudan's province...
By Efam Dovi Accra 29 November 2006 A meeting on ideas to provide affordable housing in West Africa is under way in Ghana. A large majority of city residents in Africa live in slums or in very difficult conditions because they are unable to meet the...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 29 November 2006 This Friday, South Africa will become the first African country, and the sixth in the world, to legalize same sex marriages if President Mbeki signs the civil union bill into law. Other countries on the continen...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 29 November 2006 A court in Nigeria has struck down a report by a government panel that said Vice President Atiku Abubakar should be indicted on graft charges that claim he had diverted public funds . For VOA, Gilbert da Co...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 29 November 2006 A new report by the European Parliament accuses some European governments of being aware of alleged CIA abductions, transportation and detentions of alleged terrorist suspects. From Paris, Lisa Bryant reports th...
By Nico Colombant Dakar 29 November 2006 Entrepreneurs are making money from Africans dreaming of migration. These include businessmen who have set up tents to facilitate the application process for the yearly United States green card lottery. VOA's...
By Barry Wood San Francisco, California 29 November 2006 watch VoiceOver Internet report In September 2005 eBay, the Silicon Valley-based on-line auction site, stunned California's high-tech community by spending $2.5 billion to buy a company called...
By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 29 November 2006 watch Internet report It's called the Virtual World, but many people are making it more and more part of their real worlds. It's modern-day life on the Internet. Paul Sisco takes a look at where we are -...
By Roger Wilkison Beijing 29 November 2006 Officials from the United States, North Korea and China have held a second day of talks in Beijing on resuming negotiations aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program. From the Chinese capit...
By Bill Rodgers Washington, DC 29 November 2006 watch Bush NATO report President Bush has called for the full commitment of the NATO alliance to defeat a resurgent Taleban in Afghanistan. Mr. Bush made the appeal in a wide ranging speech in Riga, La...
By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 29 November 2006 watch Talks with Iran Syria President George W. Bush, 27 Nov 2006 President Bush's meeting with the Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday follows earlier talks in Tehran between the pre...
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 29 November 2006 As people around the world mark World AIDS Day, December 1, the government of South Africa is to announce an ambitious five-year plan to combat the disease, which is estimated to infect 11 percent of the p...
By Sabina Castelfranco Istanbul 28 November 2006 Pope Benedict XVI ended the first day of his visit to Turkey urging all religious leaders to utterly refuse to support any form of violence in the name of faith. He also spoke of his concern for incre...
By Melinda Smith Washington, D.C. 28 November 2006 watch Polonium report A handout image released November 20 2006, shows Alexander Litvinenko, at the University College Hospital, in London Three people have been sent for radiological testing to see...
