Almost every week it seems another British teenager ends up dead as a result of a knife attack 持刀攻击. While official figures 官方数据 suggest violent crime overall 总体暴力行凶数量 is falling, more offences 犯罪 are being committ...
A woman is standing at a bus stop at noon. A van pulls up. A young man hops out of the van, grabs the womans purse, gets back into the van, and it drives off. An elderly man is standing on the sidewalk in front of his home at 10:30 p.m. He is admirin...
The UN has brought forward a regular Security Council meeting on the Middle East after Libya demanded an urgent debate on alleged（据称） war crimes in Gaza. Arab states say the 14 October debate must tackle a report which criticised Israel, after th...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week, we tell about two recent studies by teams of social scientists. One study showed that signs of disorderly behavior and theft...
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More than three years after Hurricane Katrina caused massive damage in New Orleans, the city has less than half its pre-hurricane population and a crime rate higher than any other city in the nation. But, as VOA's Greg Flakus reports, citizens' grou...
Radovan Karadzic was back in court in the Hague Wednesday, where international prosecutors said they would be ready with a new indictment against the former Bosnian Serb leader within days. Karadzic has so far been charged with genocide and 10 other...
The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic has again put the spotlight on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Karadzic has appeared before the court in the Hague twice since he was arrest...
The U.S. State Department's top expert on war crimes issues is welcoming Serbia's arrest of former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, and says it bodes well for the Belgrade government's future in Europe. Ambassador Clint Williamson says the ar...
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court at The Hague Monday charged Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with masterminding and implementing the genocide of the last five years against the people of Darfur. Welcoming reaction from huma...
