Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni met with top Egyptian officials, Thursday, amid escalating violence in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Livni vowed that Israel would strike back at Hamas, because the situation had become unbearable. Egyptian Pr...
South Korea's chief diplomat says a diplomatic process aimed at getting rid of North Korea's nuclear weapons is at risk if Pyongyang continues on its current path. As VOA's Kurt Achin reports from Seoul, the North's moves to resume activity at its m...
Two aid workers from French charity Medecins du Monde have been kidnapped while travelling in a remote region along the border between Ethiopia and Somalia. VOA's Peter Heinlein in Addis Ababa reports a rebel group active in the area has denied resp...
Negotiations are underway in Israel to form a new government after the prime minister resigned. Robert Berger reports from the VOA bureau in Jerusalem. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni speaks to media after winning elections in Tel Aviv, 18 Sep...
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is appealing to wealthy countries not to cut development aid or resort to protectionist trade practices in the face of the global economic crisis. VOA's David Gollust reports from the State Department that Ri...
In Nepal, 18 people were killed when a small passenger plane crashed in the east of the country. Most of the victims were German tourists. Anjana Pasricha reports for VOA from New Delhi. Yeti Airlines' plane burns as people stand around it at Lukla...
Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic presidential candidate, held talks with British leaders in London on Saturday as he wound up a foreign tour that took him to Afghanistan, Iraq, other parts of the the Middle East and Europe. VOA's Sonja Pace rep...
European Foreign Ministers have called for diplomacy rather than a military option to prod Iran to abandon its nuclear activities, despite lack of progress in talks with Iranian officials in Geneva. Lisa Bryant has more from Paris. European Union mi...
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says he expects this weekend's talks in Geneva that will include the participation of a U.S. diplomat will bring significant progress in negotiations over Iran's nuclear program. His comment was made durin...
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama travels to the Middle East and Europe next week as he seeks to bolster his foreign policy and national security credentials with U.S. voters. Obama is also expected to visit Iraq and Afghanistan soon. O...