By Luis Ramirez Bangkok 17 March 2008 A lawyer for alleged international arms trafficker Viktor Bout says Thai tried to force Bout to go to the United States, following his arrest in Thailand, earlier this month. VOA's Luis Ramirez reports from Bangk...
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 26 December 2007 Three Mauritanians said to have links to an Algerian terrorist organization called al-Qaida of the Magreb are believed to have fled from Mauritania to neighboring Senegal. They are alleged to have killed four F...
By Sonja Pace London 19 December 2007 Three British-linked terrorism suspects have been released from the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and sent back to Britain. At the same time a French court has convicted five former Guantanamo inmates...
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 18 September 2007 Russia's ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party has confirmed Andrei Lugovoi, a man wanted for murder in Britain, to be one its candidates for upcoming elections to the Russian Parliament. Lugovoi is a...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 31 August 2007 Deadly ambushes this week in Mali's northern desert region have left about a dozen dead and more than 30 government soldiers in captivity. Malian officials suspect Tuareg nomads and link the attacks to the seven-mo...
By Jim Malone Washington 25 January 2007 An elderly white man in the southern state of Mississippi faces federal charges of kidnapping and conspiracy in connection with the 1964 murders of two African-American men. The case is the latest in a series...
By Tom Rivers London 19 December 2006 A second man has been arrested as the murder investigation continues into the killing of five women in the eastern English coastal town of Ipswich. For VOA News, Tom Rivers reports from London. There has been an...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 26 June 2006 A recent agreement between Somalia's transitional government and the Islamic Courts may be put in jeopardy following Saturday's appointment of a hard-line cleric on the United States' most wanted list to head t...
By Lisa Ferdinando Miami 18 July 2006 Lawyers for terror suspect Jose Padilla are seeking to suppress statements their client made to U.S. government agents before he was arrested in May 2002. Padilla is being held in Miami and appeared in court Mon...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 04 January 2006 Afghan students listen to teacher at Loy Ghar secondary school in Kabul (File photo - Apr. 11, 2005) Suspected Taleban insurgents beheaded a school teacher l...