By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 03 May 2007 Official results in Mali's presidential election on Sunday give victory to the incumbent, Amadou Toumani Tour. Losers in the poll have alleged wrongdoing, but observers said the poll was well conducted. Naomi Schwar...
By Challiss McDonough Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt 03 May 2007 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has met with her Syrian counterpart, Walid Moallem, on the sidelines of the Iraq stabilization conference in Egypt. It would be the first high-level dip...
By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 03 May 2007 Businessmen in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, began handing over their weapons to the transitional government on Thursday, following an agreement by the government to protect the business community and its properti...
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 03 May 2007 Gunfire heard overnight across Guinea ended without external intervention. Witnesses say the gunfire came from soldiers agitating for unpaid back wages. Naomi Schwarz has more on the story from VOA's regional bureau...
By Barry Wood San Francisco, CA 03 May 2007 Today we present the first of a new weekly series of reports called Searching for Solutions. The series explores how governments, communities and individuals are trying innovative approaches to address long...
By Carol Pearson Washington 03 May 2007 A scene of video game violence It is no secret that video games and television programs often depict graphic violence. But now, three new studies show violence causes children, teenagers and young adults to be...
By Jim Fry Washington 03 May 2007 Marine Osprey The U.S. Marines are preparing to send a new tilt rotor aircraft into combat for the first time. And the American manufacturer predicts a civilian version may soon appear over many of the world's citie...
By Barry Newhouse Irbil 03 May 2007 The U.S. military says it has killed a senior leader of al-Qaida in Iraq who was involved in the kidnappings of several Westerners. Iraqi officials also have announced two other high-profile al-Qaida deaths in rece...
By Claudia Blume Hong Kong 03 May 2007 Two new reports by international financial institutions say extreme poverty could be eliminated in Asia by the year 2020. Claudia Blume in Hong Kong looks at the reasons for the optimism, and the challenges that...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 03 May 2007 Leading environmental experts who are meeting in Bangkok this week are hammering out details of a report on ways to fight climate change. Several leading US scientists say the report, to be released Friday,...
By Paula Wolfson White House 02 May 2007 Negotiations are under way between the White House and the U.S. Congress on a revised war funding bill. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports President Bush is emphasizing the need to find common ground, and find it qui...
By John Stevenson Washington 02 May 2007 Internationally renowned cellist and conductor, Mstislav Rostropovich, died Friday, April 27 in Moscow at age 80. The great cellist spent much of his life in the United States after he was formally exiled from...
By David McAlary Washington 02 May 2007 U.S. researchers have discovered a gene that promotes longer life in earthworms that eat much less than normal. Humans have similar genes, and VOA's David McAlary reports that, if they work the same way as in t...
By Doug Levine Washington 02 May 2007 Thousands took in the sights and sounds of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on its opening weekend, April 27-29, which featured almost every type of music imaginable. As VOA's Doug Levine tells us, some...
By Scott Stearns White House 02 May 2007 President Bush and his Yemeni counterpart, Ali Abdullah Saleh met at the White House Wednesday to discuss the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns has the story. Yemen's Pr...
