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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Learning First Aid: What to Do Until Medical Help Arrives CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Christopher Cruise. Today, Bob Doughty and Pat Bodnar provide a short guide to first aid. (MUS
Tensions caused by the Greek debt crisis appear to be easing following assurances Thursday by European officials that an agreement on aid for Greece will be reached in a matter of days. Global markets have been in turmoil as the debt crisis threatene
EXPLORATIONS - International Aid for the Horn of Africa JUNE SIMMS: Im June Simms. BARBARA KLEIN: And Im Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about international humanitarian aid. And, we talk to people involved in e
DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Aid Group Designs System to Make Dirty Water Safe to Drink By Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, October 17, 2005 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Development Report. Ea
US Agriculture Industry Opposes Changes to Food Aid Program Plano, Illinois, farmer Bill Wykes has been behind the wheel of a tractor for almost four decades, planting and harvesting corn and soybeans on land his family has owned even longer. Through
Under Siege, Ukraine Awaits Decision on Lethal Aid PAPASNA, LUHANSK OBLAST, UKRAINE At the last checkpoint before the battle zone, Ukrainian troops keep a careful watch on who goes in, while families squeeze into cars to leave and busloads of childre
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 29 December 2007 The International Committee of the Red Cross has begun distributing essential items to more than 500 displaced families who have taken refuge in South Kivu in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Cong
By Selah Hennessy Dakar 06 November 2007 United Nations officials say Congolese soldiers have obstructed food distribution to displaced families in the Democratic Republic of Congo by trying to register their own families for U.N. aid. Dozens were in
By Michael Bowman Washington 04 November 2007 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the United States will review all forms of aid to Pakistan in the wake of General Pervez Musharraf's decision to suspend the country's constitution. From Washingto
By Deborah Tate Washington 07 December 2007 A senior U.S. State Department official predicts elections in Pakistan scheduled for January 8 will not be perfect, but he says it will be an important step in the country's transition to democracy. At a co
Negotiating Medical Aid in Conflict Zones The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders works in many of the worlds hot spots, including Somalia, Afghanistan and the Palestinian Territories. However, humanitarian assistance often depends on delicate
United Nations and International agencies are stepping up aid to victims of the conflict between Georgia and Russia that erupted Friday in the breakaway region of South Ossetia. The agencies say lack of access to South Ossetia is the biggest problem
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 15 June 2007 The World Food Program (WFP) says it has been able to successfully feed up to three million internally displaced people in Sudan's conflict-ridden province of Darfur. The organization says it has been able to do th
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the United States is preparing an extensive aid package for Chile after Saturday's powerful earthquake that killed more than 700 people and displaced an estimated two million. Clinton made a brief stop in
By Sean Maroney Islamabad 16 October 2009 The Pakistani government is defending the $7.5 billion U.S. aid package, saying Washington has addressed Islamabad's concerns over some of the controversial clauses. Late Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obam
By Cathy Majtenyi Central Somalia 17 October 2009 Somali children in the drought area Like the rest of eastern Africa, central Somalia is in the grips of a debilitating drought. As a result, more than half of the population is in need of emergency f
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says his country will double emergency food aid to meet a crisis sparked in several developing countries over sharply rising food prices. Mr. Sarkozy's remarks made at a major international conference in Paris. 法国总
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 12 April 2008 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is stepping up its humanitarian activities in response to escalating violence in eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo.Theagency says lack of securit
By Aya Batrawy Cairo 12 March 2008 Two U.S. aid workers, a husband and wife, were attacked and beaten by a mob of students in a predominantly Christian part of southern Sudan. The reasons for the attack are still unclear, but the aid organization for
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to the Colombia-Venezuela border, where the U.S. is positioning food and medicine, which it hopes to get to needy Venezuelans. But the plan is highly controversial. Venezuela's authoritarian president, Nicolas Maduro, claims