The U.N. refugee agency says 65 people are dead or missing and presumed dead in three separate incidents involving smuggling boats in the Gulf of Aden during the past 48 hours. Somalia and Gulf of Aden These tragic events are just the latest in a lo
Members of the Pan-African Parliament are in Niger for separate talks with President Mamdou Tandja and his political opponents concerning the referendum that has extended the president's time in office. African parliamentarians are in Niger to asses
One year ago, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, then opposition-leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, leader of another small opposition party, signed a political agreement that led to the formation of a unity government. Its purpose was to
Tuesday is the first anniversary of the deal that brought about Zimbabwe's national unity government, known as the Global Political Agreement. Most Zimbabweans, who believed it would end years of political strife and suffering caused by a collapsing
By Lisa Bryant Paris 16 September 2009 Women walk past a job center in London, 16 Sept. 2009 Despite reports that many industrialized economies are beginning to emerge from their worst economic crisis in decades, unemployment is rising and will like
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 17 September 2009 A body covered with a blue sheet lies at the site where a suicide car bomber attacked an Italian military convoy on a road in Kabul, Afghanistan, 17 Sep 2009 Italy has suffered the deadliest attack on it
By Robert Raffaele Washington 17 September 2009 Israel is rejecting a call in a UN report to open an independent inquiry into the country's conduct its offensive almost a year ago in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli government said it is launching a dipl
By Alan Boswell Nairobi 17 September 2009 A Somali woman is rushed into a local hospital after several mortar rounds killed several people in Mogadishu, 17 Sep 2009 Two suicide bombings have rocked the headquarters of the African Union peacekeeping
By Scott Stearns Dakar 17 September 2009 Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade says he intends to run for re-election in 2012. President Wade told VOA's French to Africa service that he intends to stand for a third
By Lisa Bryant Paris 17 September 2009 The French government announced it would close a zone occupied by immigrant squatters near the English Channel as part of its larger crackdown on illegal immigration. The move has been sharply criticized for fa
By Lisa Bryant Paris 17 September 2009 The environmental group Greenpeace says it wants Dutch prosecutors to consider criminal charges against executives from international oil trading company Trafigura in connection with toxic waste dumped in Ivory
By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 17 September 2009 Black smoke rises from inside the AMISOM base in Mogadishu after two powerful explosions ripped through the African Union peacekeepers force commander building in Somalia, 17 Sep 2009 The African Union
By Solenn Honorine Jakarta 17 September 2009 Passengers wait for train at Jakarta train station as Indonesians living in capital city begin their exodus to their home provinces for end of Ramadan holidays, 17 Sep 2009 For Muslims, the holy month of
By Brian Padden Jakarta 17 September 2009 Indonesian police officers carry ammunition as they walk from the site of police raid on a suspected terrorist hideout in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia, 17 Sep 2009 Indonesian police say that Noordin Mohamma
By Ayaz Gul Islamabad 17 September 2009 A body covered with a blue sheet lies at the site where a suicide car bomber attacked an Italian military convoy on a road in Kabul, Afghanistan, 17 Sep 2009 A suicide car bomber struck a military convoy in Ka
By Steve Herman New Delhi 17 September 2009 Afghanistan's president is denying there was any major fraud in last month's voting. Full, preliminary results show the incumbent, Hamid Karzai, capturing enough votes to avoid a runoff with his closest ch
By VOA News 17 September 2009 President Obama's statement Download (MP3) US President Barack Obama delivers statement regarding missile defense at White House in Washington, 17 Sep 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama is dropping plans for a missile def
By Paige Kollock New York 17 September 2009 Salva Dut Thirty-four-year-old Salva Dut lives in New York. He was one of Sudan's Lost Boys - one of the many thousands of children orphaned during the country's 20 year civil war. For more than a decade,
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 17 September 2009 Low-income Kenyans living with HIV/AIDS face a range of challenges. In the Catholic Diocese of Mombasa on Kenya's coast, people affected by AIDS have formed groups that enable members to increase their inc
By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 17 September 2009 Man walks past electronic board showing stock index at securities company in Chengdu, China's Sichuan province, 17 Nov 2008 Signs of an economic recovery in Asia come as leaders of the G20 leading industria
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