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By Challiss McDonough Aaitit, Lebanon 31 July 2006 After talks between the American secretary of state and the Israeli prime minister, Israel has halted air strikes in south Lebanon for 48 hours. Israel says it is working with the United Nations to
After a year of gut-wrenching losses, stock markets around the world recorded a positive day amid light trading to close out 2008. A trader talks on the phone at the Shanghai stock market on New Year's Eve in Shanghai, China, 31 Dec 2008 Modest gain
U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama has ended a week long trip to Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories. VOA's Jim Teeple reports from Jerusalem that Israelis and Palestinians say the Illinois senator left a positive
By Mil Arcega Washington, D.C. 29 March 2006 watch General Motors report American carmaker General Motors is laying off hundreds of salaried workers, after suffering losses in the billions of dollars
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 27 May 2007 Israel has promised a harsh response to a deadly Palestinian rocket attack. Late Sunday Israel has carried out a new round of air strikes against Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip. As Robert Berger reports from
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Banda Aceh 23 December 2006 An Acehnese man works on building a new house in a village destroyed by the 2004 tsunami, in Banda Aceh, 10 Dec. 2006 Indonesia's devastated Aceh province is still struggling to rebuild two years a
By Margaret Besheer Beirut 16 August 2006 Late Wednesday, Lebanon's government approved a plan to deploy the army south of the Litani River beginning Thursday morning. Lebanese officials say the army will not force Hezbollah fighters to disarm, but
U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama carried out a whirlwind tour of Israel and the Palestinian territories, meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders and visiting a rocket-battered town in southern Israel. VOA's Jim Teeple has the details fr
Domestic violence is widespread in Mexico's southernmost region of Chiapas. Indigenous women, in particular, suffer from abuse, provoked by problems of alcoholism, unemployment and lack of education. But, efforts are underway to improve the legal an
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has become the first international leader to visit the Gaza Strip following Israel's 22-day offensive. Israeli troops continue to pull out of the battered enclave, where Palestinian medical officials say 1,300 peop
The new Obama administration appears to be taking tentative steps towards resuming dialogue with Syria, while the key step of sending a new U.S. ambassador to Damascus for the first time in three years remains up in the air. A visit by Senate Foreig
The U.N. Security Council has visited a memorial to victims of the Rwanda genocide and pledged support to efforts to end the fighting that has haunted Africa's Great Lakes region for more than a decade. Rwanda Genocide Memorial The 15 Security Counc
Global Financial Leaders Ponder Jobs, Growth and Politics Many Europeans have been angered by government efforts to slash pensions and salaries, while raising taxes in an effort to balance battered budgets. Public anger is one of many things limiting
The International Monetary Fund has boosted its world economic growth estimate for next year, but says the global recovery will be weak. IMF's World Economic Outlook report cover In a new report, the IMF says it expects the world economy to shrink b
IMF, International Community Step Up Aid for Ukraine 国际货币基金组织欲资助乌克兰 Around the world, support for Ukraines battered economy is gaining ground. On Thursday, the International Monetary Fund agreed to a two-year bailout worth
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Puerto Ricans say it is taller than the Statue of Liberty. This is the tallest statue of Christopher Columbus in the world we're talking about. It's a towering, 350-foot tall bronze statue of the explorer, and it is perched on the
By Gary Thomas Washington 14 December 2006 Iranian woman, wearing the traditional Islamic black veil, looks at campaign posters of female candidate Masoumeh Kolahi, in Tehran, 13 Dec 2006 Iranians are to vote Friday in elections for local government
By Jim Randle Baghdad 13 January 2007 U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton is in Baghdad with a delegation of Congress members to meet with representatives of the U.S. military and Iraqi government officials. VOA's Jim Randle reports from Baghdad. US Senator
Most Asia-Pacific stock markets closed lower on their first trading day of the week. Market analysts say investors have yet to see relief in the global economic gloom as more statistics point to a deepening downturn. Pedestrian walks past share pric
By Mil Arcega Washington, D.C. 08 June 2007 Oil producers in the Persian Gulf are breathing a sigh of relief as Cyclone Gonu weakened to a tropical storm. Shipping and port officials say the storm caused very little damage to major oil fields in the