Debbie Elliott: Today a prominent NASA scientist went public with his concerns that the government is trying to stifle his public statements about climate change.James Hansen told the New York Times and the Washington Post that the space agency has...
By Bill Rodgers Washington 10 July 2007 President Bush is facing mounting pressure to change his Iraq policy as the U.S. Senate begins debate on military spending priorities. The pressure is not just coming from opposition Democrats, but from some se...
By Scott Stearns Rostock, Germany 06 June 2007 Japan and the United States want the world's leading industrialized nations to put more pressure on North Korea to comply with an international agreement aimed at ending its nuclear weapons program. VOA...
By Margaret Besheer Beirut 06 June 2007 The Lebanese army continued to subdue Islamic militants holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp near the northern city of Tripoli Wednesday. From Beirut, VOA's Margaret Besheer reports fighting has become more s...
By David Gollust State Department 23 May 2007 The United States says Iran will face additional international pressure following release of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report that Tehran has expanded its uranium-enrichment activities....
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 09 May 2007 Experts have urged U.S. lawmakers to press Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf to take stronger action against al-Qaida and other Islamic extremists, and crackdown on radical madrassas or Islamic schools spr...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 02 May 2007 Majority Democrats intend to maintain pressure on President Bush over Iraq in coming months, despite the president's veto of war funding legislation containing a timeline for withdrawing U.S. forces. VOA's Dan...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 01 May 2007 There is political turmoil in Israel after an official probe issued a damning report on the government's handling of last year's war in Lebanon. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, Israel's emb...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 22 January 2007 A senior U.S. diplomat says the international community needs to bring more pressure on Iran to end, what he describes as, its efforts to develop nuclear weapons. Jim Teeple has details from our Jerusalem burea...
By Steve Herman Tokyo 26 November 2006 Japan's chief envoy to the six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear program is in Beijing to help plan the next round of negotiations, which are expected next month. In addition, as VOA's Steve Herman report...