By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 16 May 2007 The U.S. Senate has rejected a measure that would end funding for U.S. combat operations in Iraq by April1 of next year. The White House praised the vote, but some Senate Democrats say support is building for...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 16 May 2007 In a just released report Wednesday, Handicap International says hundreds of millions of people worldwide face a daily risk of death or maiming by cluster bombs. Lisa Schlein has more for VOA from Geneva, where the...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 16 May 2007 A.U. peacekeepers from Uganda patrol on an armored vehicle in Mogadishu, 14 May 2007 A hidden roadside bomb exploded in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Wednesday, killing four African Union peacekeepers and woundin...
By Bill Rodgers Washington 16 May 2007 The Bush administration is stepping up its campaign to protect U.S. intellectual property rights by putting convicted offenders in jail for longer stretches. The administration is proposing stiffer penalties aga...
By Melinda Smith Washington 16 May 2007 Women exercising One of the few certainties in life is that good health begins with eating a balanced diet and frequent exercise. But the older we get, the less likely we are to exercise. A new study of 464 U.S...
By Jim Malone Washington 16 May 2007 After months of relatively gentle debate, the 10 Republicans running for president are getting more aggressive with each other in the 2008 campaign for the White House. VOA national correspondent Jim Malone has mo...
By Deborah Block Washington 16 May 2007 One month ago (April 16) a gunman killed 32 students and faculty members at Virginia Tech University before taking his own life. A group of educators told lawmakers at the U.S. House of Representatives that sch...
By Phuong Tran Goz Beida, Chad 16 May 2007 In Chad, people are still arriving at camps to escape ethnic violence and bandit attacks along the Sudanese border. Humanitarian workers are often the first to reach out to people escaping from burning villa...
By Imran Sidiqui Washington 16 May 2007 The Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department recently installed a female as their new police chief. This is part of a trend across the United States of more women working in law enforcement. The most rece...
By Prospero Laput Zamboanga Del Norte, Philippines 16 May 2007 Philippines elections are traditionally violent and costly. On May 14th, millions of voters in the Philippines went to the polls to fill more than 18,000 local and national positions. The...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 16 May 2007 Rival Palestinian factions have clashed for the fourth straight day in the Gaza Strip. At least 16 Palestinians were killed, bringing the death toll to at least 40 since Friday. As Robert Berger reports from VOA...
By Teri Schultz Brussels 16 May 2007 The European Union has agreed to grant duty-free and quota-free market access to some 80 countries from the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) areas. There is still much debate on both sides of the accord, but E...
By Ron Corben Bangkok 16 May 2007 Burmese authorities have been arresting activists and opposition party members in the commercial capital Rangoon, as they staged vigils for the release of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. As Ron Corben reports fro...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 16 May 2007 On the eve of a historic advance in contacts between North and South Korea, there are indications that a major obstacle to ending North Korea's nuclear weapons programs may be resolved. VOA's Kurt Achin reports from Se...
By Barry Newhouse Irbil 16 May 2007 A car bomb in the violent Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, has killed at least 32 people and wounded dozens more. South of the capital, in Nasiriyah, Iraqi officials say fighting between Iraqi military units...
