By Paul Sisco Washington, D.C. 24 November 2006 watch Polar Melting report 2007 is International Polar Year. It's an international effort to spur scientific research at the most forbidding places on Earth, primarily because many in science consider
By Mil Arcega Washington, D.C. 24 November 2006 watch Matchmaking report Afghanistan's road to reconstruction depends critically on its ability to re-build its economy. Experts say the best way to do that is to develop new opportunities by creating
By Greg Flakus Houston, Texas 24 November 2006 watch DNA report Millions of people around the world can trace their ancestry back several generations or more through oral history, family documents or government records of such events as marriages an
By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 24 November 2006 Angry Shi'ites Muslims launched reprisal attacks on a Sunni mosque, political headquarters and several Baghdad neighborhoods, a day after a series of blasts and mortars killed more than 200 Shi'ites.
By Malcolm Brown Washington, D.C. 24 November 2006 watch Snakehead report An aquatic interloper appears to have adjusted easily to life in the Potomac River system near Washington, DC -- far from its native Asia, where it is regarded as a delicacy.
By Scott Stearns White House 24 November 2006 U.S. President George Bush visits Europe in the coming week for a summit with leaders of the NATO alliance. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns will travel with the president and reports on what
By June Soh Washington, D.C. 24 November 2006 watch Gold Prospecting report Gold has a glittering appeal that fascinates people generation after generation. While the famous gold rush in the middle of the 1800s, in the western U.S. state of Californ
By Efam Dovi Accra 24 November 2006 In Ghana, health authorities say they have taken a major step towards finding treatment for HIV/AIDS and other diseases by using local, traditional medicines. An estimated 4,000 of the country's 20 million people
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 24 November 2006 Rwanda broke off diplomatic ties with France on Friday in protest at a French judge's call for President Paul Kagame to stand trial over the killing of a former leader, the event which unleashed the country
By Tom Rivers London 24 November 2006 Calling it unprecedented, a British official says former Russian Spy Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned by radiation. For VOA News, Tom Rivers reports from London. Alexander Litvinenko, former KGB spy and author
By Kari Barber Dakar 24 November 2006 As part of a week to raise awareness against gender violence in Africa, the U.N. Population Fund is training local journalists to report on the issue in a way that can help solve it. Kari Barber attended a day-l
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 24 November 2006 Palestinian factions have proposed a truce with Israel aimed at ending months of fighting in the Gaza Strip. But Israel has rejected the offer, as we hear from Robert Berger at the VOA bureau in Jerusalem.
By Challiss McDonough Beirut 23 November 2006 Hundreds of thousands of mourners attended the funeral of slain Lebanese Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, who was the sixth anti-Syrian politician in Lebanon to be assassinated in the last two years. Th
By Marlene Smith Vienna 23 November 2006 The International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors has rejected Iran's request for assistance in building a heavy water reactor as part of its controversial nuclear program. For VOA, Marlene Smith repo
By Sabina Castelfranco Tripoli 23 November 2006 Ministers of the African Union and European Union Thursday ended a conference on migration and development in the Libyan capital Tripoli with a declaration blaming poverty for migration. Sabina Castelf
By Jordan Davis Dakar 23 November 2006 Economists have long noted that one of the main impediments to development in Africa is the fact it imports most of its manufactured goods. That holds true for the shelves of many West African supermarkets as w
By Cathy Majtenyi 23 November 2006 In a motion put forth to parliament Thursday, Ethiopia's prime minister indicated that his country could use force to defend Ethiopia against Somali Islamists if negotiations with them are unsuccessful. Officials o
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 23 November 2006 The Nigerian military faces a huge task in checking the growing violence in the oil-rich Niger Delta, a remote region of mangrove swamps. Inadequate funding is also being blamed for undermining the capacity
By Bill Gasperini Moscow 23 November 2006 Relations between Russia and the European Union have come under strain just as Russian President Vladimir Putin is due to meet European leaders Friday in Finland. Disputes over agricultural imports and energ
By Jim Bertel Washington, D.C. 23 November 2006 watch Lebanon update Lebanon is in the midst of three days of mourning for slain Lebanese politician Pierre Gemayel, whose assassination Tuesday could threaten the country's fragile democracy. The prom
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Democrats, Republicans Maneuver for US Congress
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Some Philanthropists in America Give More Than
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Nigeria: Seized Oil Workers May Be Released Soo
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Zimbabwe Union Cautious About Government's Late
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Nigerian Official: Census Results Ready
- 2006年VOA标准英语-US Military to Increase Trainers as Key to Deve
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Blair: Israel-Palestine, Iran Key to Middle Eas
- 2006年VOA标准英语-European Peace Initiative Gets Mixed Response i
- 2006年VOA标准英语-South African Police Chief Drawn In to Organize
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Experts Agree Somalia Getting Help From Other N
- 2006年VOA标准英语-US Signals Flexibility on Darfur Peace Force
- 2006年VOA标准英语-US Assists Indonesia with Education Reforms
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Human Rights Activists: Xenophobia in Russia Be
- 2006年VOA标准英语-South Africans Travel to US to Learn New Winema
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Bush Meets Senate Democrats
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Ivory Coast's President Will Not Fully Apply UN
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Former Iran President Calls for Troop Withdrawa
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Voters in 37 US States to Decide State, Local I
- 2006年VOA标准英语-New UN Human Rights Council Aims for Legitimacy
- 2006年VOA标准英语-A Confident Vietnam Gears Up to Host APEC Summi
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Democrats, Republicans Maneuver for US Congress
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Some Philanthropists in America Give More Than
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Nigeria: Seized Oil Workers May Be Released Soo
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Zimbabwe Union Cautious About Government's Late
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Nigerian Official: Census Results Ready
- 2006年VOA标准英语-US Military to Increase Trainers as Key to Deve
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Blair: Israel-Palestine, Iran Key to Middle Eas
- 2006年VOA标准英语-European Peace Initiative Gets Mixed Response i
- 2006年VOA标准英语-South African Police Chief Drawn In to Organize
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Experts Agree Somalia Getting Help From Other N
- 2006年VOA标准英语-US Signals Flexibility on Darfur Peace Force
- 2006年VOA标准英语-US Assists Indonesia with Education Reforms
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Human Rights Activists: Xenophobia in Russia Be
- 2006年VOA标准英语-South Africans Travel to US to Learn New Winema
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Bush Meets Senate Democrats
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Ivory Coast's President Will Not Fully Apply UN
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Former Iran President Calls for Troop Withdrawa
- 2006年VOA标准英语-Voters in 37 US States to Decide State, Local I
- 2006年VOA标准英语-New UN Human Rights Council Aims for Legitimacy
- 2006年VOA标准英语-A Confident Vietnam Gears Up to Host APEC Summi