By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 02 January 2007 Somalia's interim president is in Kenya for talks with President Mwai Kibaki and other top security officials. Meanwhile, Kenyan authorities have arrested and detained at least eight people at a border cross...
By Michael Bowman Grand Rapids 02 January 2007 The body of former President Gerald Ford has arrived in his home town of Grand Rapids, Michigan, after a state funeral Tuesday in Washington. VOA's Michael Bowman reports, residents turned out in large...
By Bill Rodgers Washington 02 January 2007 watch Memorial report Final respects were paid in Washington today for former President Gerald Ford, who died last Tuesday at the age of 93. Ford's body was moved from the Capitol, where he had been lying i...
By Jim Malone Washington 02 January 2007 State Funeral service at the Washington National Cathedral for former President Gerald R. Ford, 2 Jan. 2007 Official Washington bid farewell to former President Gerald Ford on Tuesday. Mr. Ford, the 38th pres...
By Chad Bouchard Jakarta, Indonesia 02 January 2007 Emergency workers in Indonesia continue searching for the wreckage of an airliner that disappeared during a flight to Sulawesi Monday. Officials say earlier reports that the crash site had been fou...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 02 January 2007 Some Muslims without enough money to make the once-in-a-lifetime Passengers pack belongings for trip home pilgrimage to Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, travel to their home villages to celebrate the holiday of Eid al-Adh...
By Jeff Swicord Washington, D.C. 01 January 2007 watch report on Mourners Thousands of people are expected to pay their respects to former President Gerald Ford at the U.S. Capitol on Sunday and Monday before a memorial service on Tuesday at Washing...
By Paula Wolfson White House 01 January 2007 Americans are paying a final tribute to former President Gerald Ford, who died last Tuesday at the age of 93. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports his body is lying in state at the U.S. Capitol in advance of funer...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 01 January 2007 Somalia's interim governments says it has captured the Islamic Movement's Women wait to be brought at a funeral of a family that died from an unknown explosion in Mogadishu, 31 Dec 2006 last stronghold, followin...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 01 January 2007 Israel is playing down reports of an imminent prisoner swap with Hamas, the Islamic militant group that heads the Palestinian Authority. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, each side is ac...
