By Steve Herman Islamabad 20 March 2008 Although it is not revealing a name, the Pakistan Peoples Party appears to have selected its choice for the country's next prime minister. But, as VOA correspondent Steve Herman reports from Islamabad, the sele...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 20 March 2008 South Korea's chief official on North Korea policy has warned a continued lack of progress in talks on Pyongyang's nuclear weapons could threaten the growth of a joint industrial park. The park, built by South Korea...
By Nancy Palus Dakar 20 March 2008 The effects of climate change are increasingly driving people in sub-Saharan Africa to migrate in search of better living conditions, according to experts who gathered this week in the Senegalese capital, Dakar. Nan...
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 20 March 2008 Members of an international commission tasked with investigating the conduct of Kenya's disputed December elections have arrived in the country and have been sworn in. Meanwhile, concerns are emerging about how a...
By Uma Ramiah Dakar 20 March 2008 The Saudi-based Islamic Development Bank is trying to help the most impoverished member countries of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, which held a summit last week in Senegal. Most of the poorer countries...
By Gary Thomas Washington 20 March 2008 Loyalists of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were big winners in the recent parliamentary elections. With many reformists locked out of the electoral process, the contests were primarily between different faction...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 20 March 2008 Belgium's new prime minister, Yves Leterme, was sworn in Thursday more than nine months after general elections that paralyzed the country. But from Paris, Lisa Bryant reports for VOA there are questions about just...
By Margaret Besheer United Nations 20 March 2008 The U.N. Security Council is looking at options, proposed by the secretary general, for stabilizing Somalia. They include the possibility of sending a U.N. peacekeeping force to that country to take ov...
By Paul Sisco Washington 20 March 2008 One man's solution to record high gas prices is a unique, lightweight vehicle he built himself. VOA's Paul Sisco introduces you to Jory Squibb in today's Searching for Solutions report. Spend the day in Camden,...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 20 March 2008 The Paris-based Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) published a grim assessment Thursday of the United States economy, saying it was close to recession. However, the OECDsuggested European e...
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 19 March 2008 A military and police operation targeting a militia in western Kenya continues. As Derek Kilner reports from Nairobi, journalists are complaining that they are still being barred from the areas affected by the op...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 19 March 2008 U.S. Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is touring Israel and meeting with Israeli leaders as part of his Mideast tour that has taken him to Iraq and Jordan. VOA's Jim Teeple re...
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 19 March 2008 An international human rights group says the upcoming elections in Zimbabwe are not likely to be fair because of human rights abuses and flaws in electoral procedures. The Human Rights Watch group made the ass...
By Melinda Smith Washington 19 March 2008 A scientific review published in the Journal of American Medicine shows that the field of genetics has made a lot of progress in recent years. According to JAMA , genetic testing is able to identify more than...
By Sonja Pace London 19 March 2008 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown unveiled a broad security strategy of how the government, security and health services would deal with national emergencies, including terrorist attacks, outbreaks of disease and...
