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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 22 February 2006 Israel is tightening the financial squeeze on the Islamic militant group Hamas, which won Palestinian parliamentary elections last month. Hamas has struck a
By Lisa Ferdinando Miami 24 January 2007 The defense attorney for Manuel Noriega says the former Panamanian dictator is to be released from a Miami prison in September. Lisa Ferdinando reports from Miami. Manuel Antonio Noriega (undated file photo) N
By Lisa Bryant Paris 25 January 2007 A week before the Bush administration tries to revive stalled Middle East peace talks, Israeli and Palestinian politicians pledged new efforts Thursday to secure a breakthrough during a high-level conference in D
Serbia says war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic avoided capture for some 13 years by living under a false identity in the Serbian capital Belgrade and practicing alternative medicine. Stefan Bos reports for VOA from Budapest. People in the Bosnian c
Israel has begun easing its blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip under a truce agreement reached last week. But further progress could be linked to the fate of a captive Israeli soldier, as we hear from Robert Berger at the VOA bureau in Jerusalem
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 01 June 2008 Iranian lawmakers have picked former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani as the new speaker of parliament. He is seen as a key conservative rival to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and may use his post to launch a
The U.N.'s top envoy to Iraq says provincial elections scheduled for early next year are on track, but warned that violence could spike and spoilers could try to derail the vote. Meanwhile, the U.N. mandate authorizing U.S. forces to be in Iraq will
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he would accept a Palestinian state as long as it has no military force and recognizes Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people. His remarks came in a major policy speech late Sunday in which he
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has again urged Burma's military government to release all political detainees after only a token number of political prisoners were freed during a general amnesty that began Saturday. The U.N. chief also says he i
Sentiment Mixes with Science Fiction in 'Real Steel' Battling robots in the boxing ring help a wayward father reconnect with his young son in the new sci-fi action film Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman. In the not too distant future, prizefighters n
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 07 December 2006 Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, says he has no intention of opening peace talks with Syria, and that it was wrong to link the Arab-Israeli conflict with efforts to stabilize Iraq - as called for by memb
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 08 February 2006 A man with a double leg amputation begs in a street in Kabul (File photo - April 1, 2004) Afghanistan has welcomed the decision by leading Western creditors
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told reporters in France that Israel will not agree to an immediate halt of its attacks on Gaza. She spoke following meetings with French officials. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni addresses reporters follow
My wife's birthday was coming up and I wanted to get her a special present. She always tells me to not to splurge on gifts for her but for once, I decided to pull out all the stops. I went to the jewelry store and began looking at all of the display
By David Gollust Washington 14 February 2006 Sean McCormack The Bush administration says it is not having separate talks with Israel about how to deal with a Hamas-led Palestinian government. The New
By Pearse Lynch Nairobi 13 July 2006 The leader of the Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army says he will not attend peace negotiations with the Ugandan government to end nearly two decades of fighting. The next round of negotiations is due
By Michael Bowman Buenos Aires 28 October 2007 Polls have closed in Argentina, where citizens voted for a new president, plus legislators and provincial governors. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Buenos Aires. More than 20 million Argentines are be
By Luis Ramirez Bangkok 22 December 2007 Voters in Thailand will cast ballots in a general election Sunday that is expected to return the kingdom to democratic rule following a military coup in 2006. It is a contentious race that pits voters for and
This is the last day of campaigning in Israel, where voters on Tuesday are to elect a new prime minister. With security as a major concern in the elections, polls have hardliner Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party in the lead. The polling comes a
By Kurt Achin Seoul 21 February 2008 Independent investigators have cleared South Korea's president-elect of fraud and stock manipulation allegations. Lee Myung-bak has been relieved of what could have been a serious obstacle to his administration ju