By Selah Hennessy Dakar 10 November 2007 At least seven people are said to be under arrest in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after radioactive mineral waste was poured into a river in the southeast of the country. Selah Hennessy reports from...
By Noel King Muhazi, Rwanda 10 November 2007 Tens of thousands of children have been abducted and forced into service by a myriad of armed groups in Congo's chaotic eastern provinces. Many of them are Rwandan boys who were born in Congo following the...
By David Hubler and Faith Lapidus Washington 10 November 2007 For nearly 60 years, Norman Mailer was one of America's most prolific and controversial authors. A colleague says Mailer died early Saturday at a hospital in New York City. He was 84. Mail...
By Barry Newhouse Islamabad 10 November 2007 Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto joined protests in the capital against emergency rule Saturday and tried to meet with the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. VOA's Barry Newhouse rep...
By Scott Stearns Washington 10 November 2007 President Bush is hosting German Chancellor Angela Merkel at his Texas ranch. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, the two leaders are expected to discuss Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan. The p...
By Victoria Cavaliere New York 10 November 2007 A Masters Degree in Business Administration, or MBA, was once considered a key to having a successful business career. In recent years, enrollment in full-time MBA programs has dropped, and some busines...
By Barry Wood Washington 10 November 2007 Washington's non-government Cato Institute Friday released its annual report on economic freedom, in which it uses several indicators to rank 141 global economies. VOA's Barry Wood reports the surprise in thi...
By Greg Flakus Houston 10 November 2007 The state of emergency and continuing violence in Pakistan are of special concern to the estimated half a million people of Pakistani descent living in the United States. Many of them are following events in th...
By Teri Schultz Brussels 10 November 2007 Belgium has been called an artificial country, a conglomeration of three individual states that have no real affinity for each other: Dutch-speaking Flanders, French-speaking Wallonia and a small German-speak...
By Cindy Saine Washington 10 November 2007 Lawmakers in both houses of the U.S. Congress this week handed President Bush a major defeat when they voted to override his veto legislation to fund popular water projects. It was the first time in his seve...
By David Gollust Washington 10 November 2007 The United States is sending a senior diplomat to Georgia to press for an immediate end to the state of emergency imposed this week by President Mikhail Saakashvili. U.S. envoy Matthew Bryza will meet with...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 09 November 2007 Hospital workers and residents in the Somali capital Mogadishu say more than 40 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded since late Thursday in battles between Ethiopian troops and Islamist-led insurgen...
By Gary Thomas Washington 09 November 2007 At the heart of the current political crisis enveloping Pakistan is Pervez Musharraf's insistence on holding on to his military rank as chief of the army while remaining president. The military has been the...
By Peter Fedynsky Tbilisi 09 November 2007 The Parliament of Georgia has unanimously approved President Saakashvili's 15-day state of emergency following preliminary government and opposition reconciliation talks under the auspices of the country's O...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 09 November 2007 The U.S. Army officer responsible for training Afghanistan's new security forces says he only has about half the number of U.S. military trainers he asked for. But he says the resulting delay will be measured in...
