By Dan Robinson Washington 10 January 2007 watch Bill Rodgers Iraq report Majority Democrats in Congress are signaling they intend to put up strong resistance to any troop surge in Iraq proposed by President Bush in his speech Wednesday. VOA's Dan R...
By Noel King Khartoum 09 January 2007 The governor of the U.S. state of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, visited Sudan's Darfur region on Tuesday in an attempt to get holdout Darfur rebel groups to agree to a 60-day ceasefire with the Sudanese governmen...
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 09 January 2007 US Capitol, Washington DC Democratic leaders in the House chose national security as their top priority to begin their first 100 hours of action promised by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Half the 9/11 commission...
By Meredith Buel Washington 09 January 2007 President Bush is scheduled to unveil his new strategy for the war in Iraq Wednesday night in a televised address to the nation. The president is expected to call for an increase of as many as 20,000 U.S....
By David Gollust Washington 09 January 2007 The U.S. State Department Tuesday expressed skepticism about the industrial Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez laughs at the swearing ceremony of new ministers in Caracas, 8 Jan 2007 nationalization plans o...
By Jim Malone Washington 09 January 2007 President Bush will deliver one of the most important speeches of his presidency on Wednesday when he presents his strategy for a new way forward in Iraq. White House officials are not discussing specifics of...
By Carol Pearson Washington, DC 09 January 2007 watch Weight Loss Drug report The federal government has slapped multimillion-dollar fines on companies that market four types of weight-control compounds. Not because the pills are unsafe, but because...
By Cheng Xiaohong St. Petersburg, Florida 09 January 2007 watch Salvador Dali Museum report Eccentric, iconoclastic, genius -- Salvador Dali was the epitome of all. For producer Cheng Xiaohong, Elaine Lu takes a look at the Salvador Dali Museum and...
By Kari Barber Dakar 09 January 2007 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has called for the Guinea-Bissau government to take control of a recent burst of violence in a country historically rocked by coups. The murder of a former navy chief last week...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 09 January 2007 The U.N. refugee agency says it remains extremely concerned over the security situation in eastern Chad where there are now more than 220,000 Darfur refugees from neighboring Sudan and over 100,000 internally d...
By Ron Corben Bangkok 09 January 2007 Thailand's military-installed government has decided to reduce the ability of foreigners to control Thai companies. The decision, whose details have yet to be finalized, followed warnings by foreign businessmen...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 09 January 2007 Interim Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (R) with his PM Ali Mohamed Gedi during a media briefing in Mogadishu, 09 Jan 2007 Somalia's interim president say a U.S. strike late Monday on al-Qaida hideouts in...
By Phuong Tran and Naomi Schwarz Dakar, Senegal and Ende, Mali 09 January 2007 Woman and child take part in a discussion at a village meeting in village of Bandiagara, Mali (File photo) Some of the lowest-ranking countries on the United Nations' Hum...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 09 January 2007 US General Burwell Bell (File photo) The commander of the U.S. forces in South Korea says it is probably a question of when, not if, North Korea will test a second nuclear device. He also says the 28,000 U.S. mili...
By David Gollust State Department 08 January 2007 President Bush Monday completed a shake-up of key Iraq policy posts by nominating new U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations and Baghdad. The U.S. envoy to Iraq, Zalmay Khalizad, will take the United...
