By Alisha Ryu Baidoa, Somalia 02 July 2006 Somalia's interim prime minister has categorically denied reports that Ethiopian troops have entered Somalia, or the town of Baidoa, where the country's fledgling government is based. VOA Correspondent Alis...
By Stephanie Ho Washington 02 July 2006 Violence continues to escalate in the latest confrontation between Israel and the Palestinians, as both sides blame each other for the crisis. Israeli and Palestinian representatives repeated their accusations...
By Michael Bowman Washington 02 July 2006 This photo, reviewed by a US Department of Defense official, US military guards keeps watch from a tower overlooking the perimeter of Camp Delta detention center, June 29, 2006 U.S. senators from both politi...
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 02 July 2006 Pope Benedict XVI delivers his speech during Angelus prayer, July 2, 2006 Pope Benedict XVI expressed concern Sunday about the escalating violence in Iraq and the Middle East. He also made an appeal to safegu...
By Joe Bavier Banjul 02 July 2006 Somalia On the last day of the African Union summit in The Gambia, the continent's leaders are discussing what has been the chief theme of the conference: security, and how to stem continuing violence in Somalia and...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 02 July 2006 Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani addresses a press conference in Chandigarh, India India's biggest conglomerate plans a massive investment in the country's fast-growing retail sector. International...
By Cindy Saine Washington 01 July 2006 In this image made from NASA TV, German Astronaut Thomas Reiter exits the Space Shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral The space shuttle Discovery was set to lift off (at 1949 UTC) Satu...
By Alan Silverman Hollywood 01 July 2006 The original comic book super-hero is back on the big screen in a rip-roaring adventure directed by Bryan Singer, who made the first two X-Men movies. Alan Silverman spoke with the director and his stars for...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 01 July 2006 A ministerial summit at the World Trade Organization has failed to make a breakthrough in deadlocked global free trade negotiations. The so-called Doha Development Round, which is supposed to lift millions of peop...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 01 July 2006 The new United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution to make a review of alleged human rights abuses by Israel a permanent part of the agenda of future meetings. --------- The former, discredited U....
By VOA Sports Washington, DC 01 July 2006 Andre Agassi kisses the crowd good bye at Wimbledon Saturday was a bad day for American tennis players at Wimbledon, with Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick and defending champion Venus Williams all knocked out of t...
By Greg Flakus Mexico City 01 July 2006 In Mexico the noise of the campaigns is now over and voters are preparing to make their final choices for president as well as regional offices on Sunday. Election officials expect to announce preliminary resu...
