Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens spoke at the National Press Club in Washington Monday and called on both presidential candidates to come up with a plan to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Pickens has spent millions of dollars on national televisio...
Israeli President Shimon Peres told his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak, during a brief meeting Thursday in the Sinai resort town of Sharm el Sheikh, that Israel was prepared to accept the 2002 Arab peace plan as the basis of a global peace agree...
By Margaret Besheer Khartoum 04 June 2008 A U.N. Security Council delegation met with government officials in Khartoum Wednesday, pressing them to implement the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement and to cooperate with the International Criminal Cour...
By Mil Arcega Washington 15 May 2008 The U.S. Labor Department says overall prices paid by consumers rose only slightly in April. Wednesday's report shows energy costs appear to be stabilizing after posting sharp gains earlier this year. Although foo...
By Dan Robinson Washington 10 April 2008 Lawmakers have pressed the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker, about the duration of the U.S. military presence in Iraq, and political progress by the...
By Jim Malone Washington 29 February 2008 Tuesday's primaries in the delegate-rich states of Texas and Ohio could be decisive in the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. One of tho...
By Jim Malone Washington 20 February 2008 Democratic presidential contenders Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are headed for a showdown March 4 in primaries in Texas and Ohio. Those primaries could go a long way toward deciding who will be the Democr...
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 08 January 2008 South Africa's ruling African National Congress says its recently elected leader, Jacob Zuma, will be its candidate for the South African presidency in elections due next year. VOA's Scott Bobb reports from...
By VOA News Johannesburg 06 November 2007 Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and South African President Thabo Mbeki have been holding talks in Capetown to discuss the deteriorating situation in Darfur and the deployment of additional peacekeeping troo...
By Malcolm Webb Nairobi 31 August 2007 The ODM-Kenya opposition party Friday chose Kalonzo Musyoka as their presidential candidate to run in the forthcoming general election in Kenya. His former ally, Raila Odinga, is expected to be running against h...