By Robert Berger Jerusalem 16 February 2007 Israeli police and Palestinian protesters have clashed near a hotly disputed holy place in Jerusalem after Friday Muslim prayers. The riot was quickly contained, and 15 people were arrested. But as Robert...
By Ron Corben Bangkok 05 February 2007 Thai prime minister Surayud Chulanont has fired the Thai police chief after he failed to make progress in the investigation of bomb attacks in the capital Bangkok. As Ron Corben reports from Bangkok, new polls s...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 07 January 2007 Bangladeshi Riot Police baton charge as protestors throw bricks during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 7 Jan 2007 At least 50 people were injured when security forces clashed with protestors in Bangladesh...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 07 January 2007 Activists of leftist women organizations protest killing of innocent children in Noida, India, 6 Jan 2006 The bodies of 17 women and children who disappeared over the last two years have been discovered i...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 09 December 2006 There have been violent protests in the Gaza Strip and West Bank against the Palestinian government led by the Islamic militant group Hamas. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, it is the...
By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 17 November 2006 South Africa's national police commissioner has become embroiled in a major organized crime investigation following the arrest of a friend of his on charges of murder and conspiracy to murder. The dev...
By Phil Mercer Sydney 29 October 2006 Ambassador Christopher Hill The chief U.S. envoy for North Korean affairs says Australia could play a vital role inenforcing U.N. sanctions against Pyongyang that were imposed following its test of a nuclear wea...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 22 October 2006 Palestinian police officer burns tires during a demonstration demanding payment of salaries in Gaza City, October 22, 2006 Members of the Palestinian security forces launched a wave of anti-government prote...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 06 October 2006 A senior U.S. general in Iraq says the suspension of an entire Iraqi police brigade on Wednesday demonstrates that the interior minister is serious about building an effective force. The general also says thousa...
By Jim Randle Irbil, Iraq 04 October 2006 Iraqi authorities have taken a police unit with hundreds of officers out of service because of possible complicity with death squads. The action follows a mass kidnapping in Baghdad earlier this week. --- Ba...