By Jim Malone Washington 31 March 2008 Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton is sounding a defiant tone in response to calls from some supporters of rival Barack Obama that she quit the presidential race. Meanwhile, the presumptive Republ...
By Tendai Maphosa London 31 March 2008 Britain is stepping up the use of biofuels with new targets in the coming weeks - as the first step toward meeting an EU directive that five percent of all transport fuels come from renewable energy sources by t...
By Paula Wolfson Kyiv 31 March 2008 U.S. President George Bush has arrived in Ukraine - the first stop on a European tour that will also take him to Croatia, Russia and the NATO summit in Romania. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from Kyiv this is his fir...
By Katherine Cole Washington 31 March 2008 The official motto of Austin, Texas, is Live Music Capital of the World. That's certainly true for 10 days in mid-March each year, when the annual South By Southwest (SXSW) music, film and interactive-arts f...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 31 March 2008 India has taken steps to drastically limit rice exports in a bid to cool prices and ensure sufficient food stocks for its more than one billion people. As Anjana Pasricha reports, India is battling inflation...
By Naomi Martig Hong Kong 31 March 2008 Japan's jobless rate has risen for the first time in five months, and Chevron Corporation has discovered large offshore natural gas deposits in Vietnam. Naomi Martig in Hong Kong has more on these and other bus...
By Peta Thornycroft Harare 30 March 2008 Zimbabweans are anxiously waiting for the results of four elections held Saturday. Election monitors insay tensions are rising as people wait for the release of official results. Peta Thornycroft reports from...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 30 March 2008 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held talks Sunday with Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders during her second trip the Middle East in less than a month. VOA's Jim Teeple reports from Jerusalem that...
By Kent Klein Washington 30 March 2008 The head of the US Central Intelligence Agency says al-Qaida has established a safe haven in the tribal areas near the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and that it presents a clear and present danger to...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 30 March 2008 A controversial and partly boycotted Arab League summit has ended in the Syrian capital, Damascus, with no progress on the Lebanese political crisis and a summit declaration that Iraq refused to endorse. Desp...
By Kent Klein Washington 30 March 2008 The debate among Americans about the state of the war in Iraq played out on this week's Sunday television interview programs. Democratic and Republican lawmakers and the head of the CIA offered their views on a...
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 29 March 2008 Zimbabweans are going to the polls today to choose a president, parliament and local councils. The elections come amid a severe economic crisis, as we hear from VOA's Scott Bobb in our Southern Africa Bureau i...
By Phil Mercer Sydney 29 March 2008 Australians switched off their lights for 60 minutes Saturday to mark Earth Hour, a campaign by environmentalists to raise awareness about global warming. The event was started a year ago in Sydney by the World Wil...
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 29 March 2008 Zimbabweans wentto the polls Saturday to choose a president, parliament and local councils. The balloting was mostly peaceful although police said a bomb went off at the home of a ruling party parliamentary ca...
By Tendai Maphosa London 29 March 2008 Zimbabwean law does not allow citizens outside the country to vote. But to show their solidarity with Zimbabweans who are voting in Saturday's elections, some of those in the diaspora have organized mock balloti...
