Russia and India have signed an agreement to build civilian nuclear reactors in India during a visit by the Russian president to New Delhi. The two countries have also called for greater international cooperation in the fight against terror. Russian...
Voters in Ghana go to the polls Sunday to elect a new government. Two veteran politicians are in a tight race for the presidency. But analysts see the elections as another step in the consolidation of multi-party democracy in the West African nation...
The top executives of the three major U.S. automobile manufacturers are vowing to streamline their companies in return for billions of dollars in federal aid to shore up the beleaguered industry. The officials appeared before Congress on Thursday fo...
Continued economic weakness has led to another round of interest rate cuts in Europe, while the number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits has reached a 26-year high. A broker is seen under the curve of the German stock index DAX at the sto...
Israeli forces have evicted scores of Jewish settlers who had refused court orders to leave a house in the West Bank town of Hebron. The violence Thursday left about 20 people injured and has raised concerns of wider protests by Jewish settlers. Isr...
The state-owned Herald newspaper says the Zimbabwe government is seeking international assistance and has declared a state of emergency about its cholera outbreak. The United Nations says the outbreak has claimed 565 lives and caused illness in 12,5...
A delegation from the U.N. Security Council has just returned from Afghanistan, where they say there has been some progress on several fronts, giving them a sense of cautious optimism for the future. Italian Ambassador Giulio Terzi, head of the U.N....
Bangkok's international airport is returning to normal, after protesters shut it down for eight days. But business experts say the economic damage caused by the country's political crisis may linger for some time. VOA's Kate Pound Dawson reports fro...
Health officials say aggressive efforts to vaccinate young children against measles have resulted in a 74 percent global decline in the number of deaths due to the illness. Experts say the biggest decline, 90 percent, occurred in the Eastern Mediter...
One of the key foreign policy questions facing the incoming Obama administration is how to deal with a resurgent Russia? Most analysts agree that after Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th U.S. president on January 20, his administration's main chal...
China's chief trade envoy has urged the United States to, in his words, do all it can to stabilize its economy, amid a global financial crisis. The call came on the first of two days of regular, high-level Sino-American meetings. Stephanie Ho report...
The annual Islamic pilgrimage known as the Hajj officially gets under way Saturday in Saudi Arabia. Saudi officials are working to avoid any repeat of the tragedies that have befallen the Hajj in years past. Muslim pilgrims pray around the Kaaba at...
NASA says its next mission to check for life on Mars will have to wait two more years. In the meantime, NASA plans to continue testing its next-generation Mars rover, and it hopes to continue exploring the red planet with the help of the European Sp...
It is another nervous day on the trading floors in Europe as various European banks dropped interest rates again. The move is designed to address fears that Europe could get caught up in a deep and difficult recession, spanning all of 2009. Presiden...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has unveiled a stimulus plan worth more than $30 billion to fight the economic and financial downturn. French President Nicolas Sarkozy announces his economic stimulus plan on 04 Dec. 2008 in Douai, North of France T...
