By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 15 February 2007 As India's economy grows at a scorching pace, high inflation and rising food prices are beginning to hurt the poor. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the government says it is taking steps to moder...
By Michael Bowman Grand Rapids, Michigan 03 January 2007 The late U.S. President Gerald Ford has been laid to rest at his presidential museum in his hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan, following a private service at a local church. VOA's Michael Bow...
By Linda Cashdan Washington 27 December 2006 Former President Gerald Ford is dead at the age of 93. Mr. Ford had been in declining health this year, battling pneumonia and undergoing two heart procedures. He suffered a mild stroke in 2000. The 38th...
By David McAlary Washington 06 December 2006 New biological evidence casts more doubt on Libyan government charges against six imprisoned Bulgarian and Palestinian medical workers accused of deliberately infecting several-hundred Libyan children wit...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 17 September 2006 Israeli PM Ehud Olmert, center, speaks as Cabinet Secretary Yisrael Maimon, right, and Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz look on at weekly cabinet meeting, September 17, 2006 Israel has decided to conduct an...
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 13 August 2006 Security Council members at UN Headquarters in New York voted to adopt a resolution calling for a cease fire between Israel and Lebanon Friday, August 11, 2006 Consultations are expected to begin this week...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 29 June 2006 In the wake of Thursday's Supreme Court ruling, U.S. officials are working to find a new way to determine the future of the approximately 450 men held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. The Court ruled that...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 15 March 2006 The U.S. military has temporarily sent about 700 additional troops into Iraq to help provide security for observances of a Muslim holiday that falls next Monday, an...
AGRICULTURE REPORT – September 17, 2002: Genetically Engineered Food Aid By George Grow This is the VOA Special English AGRICULTURE REPORT. A food crisis in southern Africa has added to the debate a...
Paula Wolfson The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee says the Saudi government bears part of the blame for the latest terrorist attack in that country. Senator Richard Lugar says...