The widower of Pakistan's assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has won elections to become the country's next president. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad, where Asif Ali Zardari won an estimated 482 of the 702 votes from lawm...
By Daniel Schearf Irbil 14 March 2008 Iraq's Christian minority has been mourning the death of the Catholic Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul. The Christian leader's body was found Thursday, more than two weeks after he was abducted by gunmen in the north...
By Claudia Blume Hong Kong 03 March 2008 Pakistani writer Fatima Bhutto, niece of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, says last month's elections in Pakistan were not a victory for democracy, but rather a continuation of dynastic polit...
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 25 October 2007 Alisher Saipov, a freelance journalist who provided in-depth reports for VOA's Uzbek Service, has been buried less than 24 hours after his murder Wednesday evening in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh. VOA Mosco...
By Sean Maroney Washington 17 October 2006 Candlelight vigil to honor slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya at the Embassy of the Russian Federation, in Washington One of Russia's most prominent journalists, Anna Politkovskaya, was found murde...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 01 September 2006 Pakistani authorities say they have buried a tribal leader, whose death during a military operation last week sparked violent protests. ----- Protestor hurls back a tear gas shell towards the police durin...
By Margaret Besheer Washington 26 January 2006 Besheer report - Download 496k Listen to Besheer report Saad Hariri, the son and political heir of Rafik Hariri, the slain former Lebanese prime minister...