Nigeria's leading militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, has declared a unilateral ceasefire in the oil-rich region. Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports for VOA. MEND warned in its statement that it would end the ceasefi...
The warring factions in Afghanistan say they will heed a call by the United Nations to stop fighting so aid workers can begin a three-day polio vaccination campaign. The Taliban, the Afghan army and international military forces say they will halt t...
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert presented his resignation letter to President Shimon Peres at the president's official residence in Jerusalem Sunday. Olmert faces corruption allegations and is likely to be replaced by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni...
Pakistani security officials have disclosed new details about Saturday's hotel bombing and released a video showing the attack. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad, where the interior ministry said the death toll has reached 53 people, inclu...
The Bush administration is urging U.S. lawmakers to quickly pass its sweeping $700-billion bailout plan for financial institutions that are holding large amounts of bad mortgage debt. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in television intervie...
The Bush administration is urging U.S. lawmakers to quickly pass its sweeping $700-billion bailout plan for financial institutions that are holding large amounts of bad mortgage debt. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in television intervie...
A senior U.S. State Department official Thursday urged members of Congress to approve a U.S.-India nuclear cooperation agreement before the House and Senate adjourn next week ahead of November elections. But some lawmakers are concerned the accord c...
A senior North Korean official says his country is beginning to restore a disabled nuclear facility capable of producing weapons material. Pyongyang says the United States has not fulfilled obligations under a multinational agreement to get rid of t...
Financial markets in Asia have rebounded after massive central bank intervention and moves by the United States authorities to assist troubled financial firms. But as Ron Corben reports from Bangkok, while Asia's economic growth prospects are expect...
Indian police have shot dead two suspected Islamic militants in a shootout in the Indian capital, days after the city was rocked by serial bomb blasts. At least one more militant has been arrested. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, police s...
The financial crisis that has gripped the United States has particular resonance for Asia, which was racked by its own financial crisis 11 years ago. Indeed, some of the root causes of the two crises are similar, which has sparked some concern in As...
Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh is threatening to track down Islamic militants and arrest them inside their houses, following a crackdown, yesterday, in which at least 25 alleged suspects in Wednesday's attack on the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa were d...
The economic crisis has spread into many areas of the U.S. economy--banks, investment firms, insurance companies, and even the oil markets. But as VOA's Kent Klein reports from Washington, experts seem to agree that the trouble started with bad loan...
South Korea's currency and stocks have taken a beating this week following the financial crumbling of another major US financial institution. For many Koreans, the crisis appears quite similar to what they experienced 11 years ago but this time, som...
As the financial crisis claimed more victims this week on Wall Street, the rest of the world's markets and banks have been in turmoil. In Britain, 45,000 banking jobs are now in jeopardy. VOA's Mandy Clark looks at the global financial fallout of th...
