By David Gollust State Department 21 June 2007 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flies to Paris early next week for meetings with top French officials and Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora. Middle East issues and Sudan will be on the agenda...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 08 June 2007 An Israeli Cabinet member says the government wants to open peace talks with Syria and is prepared to discuss terms for returning the Golan Heights. The Cabinet minister's comments follow a newspaper report on...
By Deborah Block Washington 16 May 2007 One month ago (April 16) a gunman killed 32 students and faculty members at Virginia Tech University before taking his own life. A group of educators told lawmakers at the U.S. House of Representatives that sch...
By Scott Stearns White House 18 April 2007 President Bush met with congressional Democrats at the White House Wednesday to discuss their differences over funding wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports that t...
By Challiss McDonough Riyadh 28 March 2007 Arab leaders are meeting in Saudi Arabia in a bid to revive their 2002 Middle East peace plan. The two-day summit will also address crises in Sudan's Darfur region, Iraq and Lebanon. VOA Correspondent Challi...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 25 February 2007 Foreign Ministers from seven Muslim nations met in Islamabad to discuss the deteriorating security situation in the Middle East. The conflict over Palestine as well as violence in Iraq and the growing tensi...
By Scott Stearns White House 27 January 2007 U.S. President George Bush is backing Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's moves to improve security in Baghdad. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, the president's political opponents a...
By Lisa McAdams Moscow 15 November 2006 U.S. President Bush and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met briefly in Moscow to discuss nuclear disputes with Iran and North Korea and the Middle East before a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders. The two p...
By Luis Ramirez Beijing 06 September 2006 The top U.S. envoy dealing with North Korea has conferred with Chinese officials on warning Pyongyang against testing a nuclear weapon. Christopher Hill speaks to the press Assistant Secretary of State Chris...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 29 May 2006 Experts from around East Africa are meeting this week in Kenya's capital to discuss how to supply one of the continent's most basic needs, clean water. In many East African cities large areas have no access to r...