By Ernest Leong Washington, DC 22 December 2006 watch Holocaust Muslims Muslim leaders gathered at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum this week to honor and remember Holocaust victims from World War II. For those attending, the remembrance was movin...
By Jim Malone Washington 18 December 2006 2006 was a year of change in U.S. politics as Democrats won back control of Congress for the first time in 12 years. As VOA National Correspondent Jim Malone reports from Washington, public unhappiness over...
By Scott Stearns White House 13 December 2006 U.S. President George Bush is wrapping up a series of meetings aimed at finding what he says will be a new way forward in Iraq. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, Mr. Bush is expected t...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 13 December 2006 Heads of state and other representatives from 11 African countries are gathering in Kenya's capital this week for their Great Lakes conference. The leaders are expected to sign a pact that sets out plans to...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 06 December 2006 As fear mounts of an all-out war in Somalia which could drag in neighboring countries, Muslim leaders in Kenya are denying allegations that Somali Islamists are actively recruiting young ethnically-Somali Kenya...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 05 December 2006 The incoming Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, and other Democrats are ruling out any effort by members of their party to have Congress cut off funds for U.S. military ope...
By Kari Barber Dakar 28 November 2006 Top officials from one of the world's poorest nations, Guinea Bissau, met in Senegal recently to form a strategy to alleviate persistent poverty. In the informal meeting, representatives from donor nations and a...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 27 November 2006 Kenya Muslim leaders in Kenya are warning the government against allowing foreign militaries to use Kenya as a staging ground for war against Islamists in neighboring Somalia. VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu has d...
By Dan Robinson Washington 17 November 2006 House Republican Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio arrives at US Capitol, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2006 Sounding a theme of unity, Republican leaders in Congress are vowing a comeback in the wake of major ele...
18 October 2006 Thailand's Prime Minister Gen. Surayud Chulanont, right, and his Malaysian counterpart Abdullah Badawi, Oct. 18, 2006 Thailand's prime minister has met with Malaysian leaders and pledged to peacefully end an insurgency in Thailand's...