By Lisa Bryant Paris 02 April 2008 France says it has launched a humanitarian mission with the assistance of Spain and Switzerland to help an ailing French-Colombian politician who has been held by Colombian rebels for the past six years. Lisa Bryant...
By Stefan Bos Budapest 20 February 2008 The European Union has begun setting up its 2,000-member police and judicial mission in Kosovo, to oversee the region's independence. But as Stefan Bos reports for VOA from Budapest, the operation will need su...
By Andr de Nesnera Washington 14 November 2007 Forces from the 26-member North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, are encountering stiff resistance from Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan. In this report from Washington, VOA senior corres...
By Brian Wagner Miami 07 November 2007 The crew of the space shuttle Discovery has returned to Earth after completing a more than two-week mission to the International Space Station. VOA's Brian Wagner reports that the astronauts performed crucial co...
By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 05 November 2007 United States Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez is leading a trade mission of 22 American companies to Vietnam - the first since Vietnam joined the World Trade Organization. American businesses are eager...
By Naomi Martig Hong Kong 01 November 2007 Japan's defense agency has ordered ships supporting U.S.-led military operations in Afghanistan to return home from the Indian Ocean, after the country's main opposition party refused to back an extension of...
By Alex Villarreal Washington 31 October 2007 NASA has delayed the fourth spacewalk of a complex two-week mission by U.S. space shuttle Discovery to boost the capability of the International Space Station. The walk, originally set for Thursday, is no...
Helen: This is Real English from BBC Learning English. Im Helen. Zoe: Hello,我是刘佳。 Helen: Today were going to look at words and phrases that have recently become part of the English language. Zoe: 在今天的地道英语中,我们来学一些时下英语中最流行...
By Brian Wagner Miami 16 October 2007 United Nations officials have agreed to extend the peacekeeping mission in Haiti as part of a plan to add more international police. VOA's Brian Wagner recently visited the Caribbean nation, where officials say t...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 19 September 2007 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has begun a two-day peace mission to the Middle East. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, her visit coincided with an unexpected Israeli announcem...