By Jim Malone Washington 26 October 2007 Some conservative activists have raised the prospect of a third party candidate in next year's U.S. presidential election if former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani becomes the Republican Party nominee. In th
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 26 October 2007 South African Reggae star Lucky Dube is to be buried Sunday in a private family ceremony. Fans, however, have already paid an emotional tribute to the singer, who was shot to death a week ago in an attempted
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 27 October 2007 A senior United Nations official says the humanitarian situation in Sudan's conflict-ridden province of Darfur is deteriorating. He says an improvement of the situation is dependent on a political settlement bet
By Kari Barber Dakar 27 October 2007 Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission has again started gathering testimony about atrocities committed during the nation's civil wars ending in 2003 and the years leading up to the wars. The commission beg
By Tom Rivers London 27 October 2007 For the first time ever, the U.S. National Football League will stage a regular season game in Europe. The venue for the Sunday clash will be London's new Wembley stadium. Tom Rivers has detail from London. Here i
By Claudia Blume Singapore 27 October 2007 For many people, toilets are not a particularly pleasant topic. Not so for Singaporean entrepreneur Jack Sim. He founded the World Toilet Organization to draw attention to the devastating health problems poo
By Paul Sisco Washington 26 October 2007 Better weather conditions in Southern California are giving firefighters hope in their battle against large wildfires. But parts of the Southeastern United States, stretching from Tennessee across the Carolina
By Steve Mort Orlando, Florida 26 October 2007 American high schools are increasingly serving food from around the world in order to keep up with the country's diversifying population. The School Nutrition Association says two-thirds of schools serve
By Leta Hong Fincher Washington 26 October 2007 Bush administration officials admit that they heavily edited testimony on climate change delivered to Congress Tuesday by the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Senate Democrat
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 26 October 2007 A rare outbreak of vaccine-derived polio in Nigeria has prompted fears that current efforts to eradicate the disease in northern part of the country could suffer a major setback. The World Health Organization
By VOA News 26 October 2007 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has defended new U.S. sanctions on Iran designating Tehran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a proliferators of weapons of mass destruction and its elite Quds force as a supporter of t
By Michael Bowman Buenos Aires, Argentina 26 October 2007 Voters in Argentina are preparing to elect a new president, along with legislators and provincial governors. For many voters, economic matters top their list of concerns. In years past, Argent
By Barry Newhouse Islamabad 26 October 2007 Pro-Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan have clashed with paramilitary forces, a day after a deadly bomb attack on a troop transport truck in the area. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad that a
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 25 October 2007 Lawmakers have sharply questioned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about allegations that the State Department withheld information of corruption in Iraq, and steps by the government of Prime Minister N
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 25 October 2007 A group of lawmakers from both parties is proposing to change a law approved by Congress more than three decades ago aimed at limiting the ability of the president to go to war without the approval of Cong
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 26 October 2007 Israeli and Palestinian leaders met in Jerusalem Friday for talks that focused on the creation of a Palestinian state and new Israeli sanctions on the Gaza Strip. Robert Berger has this report from Jerusalem
By Noel King Kigali 25 October 2007 U.N. officials in Congo say dissident Congolese General Laurent Nkunda has failed to make good on his pledge to send 500 of his troops for integration into Congo's regular army. Noel King has more in this report fr
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 25 October 2007 A senior United Nations official says Israel's economic blockade of the Gaza Strip does not bode well for U.S.-sponsored Middle East peace talks expected later this year. He appeals to Israel to lift restriction
By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 25 October 2007 Ethiopia and Eritrea are blaming each other as a commission set up to adjudicate their border dispute prepares to finish its work without finding a mutually acceptable settlement. VOA's Peter Heinlein rep
By Kari Barber Dakar 25 October 2007 Human rights group Amnesty International released a report Thursday calling on the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to rein in its security troops and prosecute those accused of torture, murder and r
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