By Lisa Schlein Geneva 30 March 2007 The U.N. Human Rights Council has unanimously adopted a resolution Friday expressing concern over the situation in Darfur, but it fails to condemn Sudan for its actions. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from U.N. Euro...
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 30 March 2007 Angola has completed what is being called the largest ever repatriation of refugees in sub-Saharan Africa. More than 400,000 people who fled decades of war in Angola have returned home during the past four yea...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 30 March 2007 Leaders from South Asian countries will gather in India in the coming days for a regional summit expected to focus on trade and terrorism. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, Afghanistan will join the...
By Dan Robinson Washington 29 March 2007 A detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba being escorted by two U.S. soldiers Arguments for and against the closure of the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba used for the interrogation and detention of suspected t...
By Dan Robinson Washington 29 March 2007 A detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba being escorted by two U.S. soldiers Arguments for and against the closure of the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba used for the interrogation and detention of suspected t...
By Jim Teeple Washington 29 March 2007 Britain continues to insist that it was within Iraqi territorial waters when Iranian Revolutionary Guards seized two small patrol craft and 15 sailors and marines. Iran maintains the boats were in Iranian waters...
By Faiza Elmasry Washington, D.C. 29 March 2007 Watch Healthy Dining report U.S. federal health officials say Americans dine away from home more than ever before. And they say that dining out is a major contributor to the nation's weight problem. To...
By Paula Wolfson White House 29 March 2007 The U.S. Congress and the White House have moved a step closer to a major confrontation on Iraq. The Senate has passed a war funding bill that includes wording on a troop withdrawal. VOA's Paula Wolfson repo...
By Jim Malone Washington 29 March 2007 The political showdown over the war in Iraq between President Bush and the Democratic-controlled Congress has become a defining issue in the early stages of the 2008 U.S. presidential election campaign. VOA nat...
By Greg Flakus Houston, TX 29 March 2007 Watch Houston LIvestock Show Rodeos and livestock shows are a common part of life in many parts of the United States, but if there is one special event of this kind, it is the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo...
By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 29 March 2007 Southern Africa leaders are meeting the Tanzanian capital in special session called to discuss the crisis in Zimbabwe and recent political events in the Democratic Republic of Congo. VOA's Delia Robertson...
By Brent Hurd Washington, D.C. 29 March 2007 Watch 48 Hour Film The 48-Hour Film Project contest gives local filmmakers a chance to showcase their creativity and talent by producing a short film in only two days. Since its start in 2001, the contest...
By Parke Brewer Atlanta, Georgia 29 March 2007 Four highly rated men's college basketball teams survived the first two weeks of the single-elimination U.S. men's national tournament known as March Madness and are prepared to square off in the so-call...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 29 March 2007 An opposition party in Nigeria has filed an action in court seeking to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission from conducting next month's general elections. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa in Abuja repo...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 29 March 2007 In Guinea, the newly-appointed Prime Minister Lansana Kouyate has named more than 20 new government members, the latest step in the strike-ending deal reached last month that ended weeks of violent unrest and work s...
