The former deputy chief of Indonesia's state intelligence agency has been charged with the murder of prominent human rights activist Munir Thalib. VOA Correspondent Nancy-Amelia Collins has more from Jakarta. Muchdi Purwoprandjono, center, is surrou...
Former Chinese leader Hua Guofeng, who ruled the country briefly after the death of the founder of modern China, Mao Zedong, is dead. Official media says he died Wednesday of an unspecified illness. Stephanie Ho reports from Beijing. Hua Guofeng (fi...
U.S. officials say they are close to an agreement with Iraq on the future of the U.S. troop presence in the country. But they deny reports that an agreement has already been reached. VOA's Al Pessin reports from the Pentagon. US Secretary of State C...
U.S. President George Bush has expressed solidarity with the people of Pakistan in a phone call with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. VOA White House correspondent Paula Wolfson reports Mr. Bush talked earlier to former Pakistani President Pervez...
Americans Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh have won their second Olympic gold medal, defending the beach volleyball title they won four years ago in Athens, Greece. From Beijing, VOA's Jim Stevenson has more on their latest victory on the sand. Mis...
A group of Darfurian refugees who recently fled the war in Sudan have gathered across the border in the northern Central African Republic. But rather than living in a displacement camp as is usually the case for refugees, they live on their own, in...
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has said that if the government moves forward with plans to convene parliament next week, it would violate a memorandum of understanding between the two sides on power-sharing negotiations. Tsvangirai m...
Israel is warning the United States and other countries not to pressure it into reaching what it says could be a premature Palestinian peace agreement. Israel's chief negotiator says too much pressure could result in another Palestinian uprising and...
Russia says all of its forces in Georgia will be withdrawn by late Friday into a 'buffer zone' around the separatist region of South Ossetia, where Georgian troops will no longer be allowed. Georgia, however, doubts Moscow's assurances, and says the...
Russia has stopped all military cooperation with NATO after alliance foreign ministers said future ties depend on Russia pulling back troops in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, the Bush admi...
Two powerful suicide bomb blasts near the Pakistani capital have killed at least 64 people and wounded more than 70 others Thursday. Pakistani Taliban militants have claimed responsibility for the bombings on a main weapons factory just 30 kilometer...
Health workers in the Central African Republic are blaming poor family planning as well as high prices for worsening malnutrition in northern parts of the country. VOA's Nico Colombant reports from a feeding center in the small northern town of Boss...
Nicholas Willis has won a bronze medal in the men's 1500-meter race at the Beijing Olympics. He is one of many athletes who lives in the United States but was born in another country. VOA's Jim Stevenson has more on the middle distance runner from N...
Burma's opposition party, the National League for Democracy, says the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is to visit Burma in December to hold talks on the country's political problems. As Ron Corben reports from Bangkok, the NLD was told...
Jamaican runners had another impressive day at the track in Beijing, as they continued to dominate the short sprint events. VOA's Jim Stevenson has more on Wednesday's Olympic results, highlighted by a new master of speed. Usain Bolt celebrates afte...
