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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull posted a video on Twitter on Feb. 18, wishing everyone a happy Chinese New Year. In the meantime, Turnbulls granddaughter Isla sends her best wishes all the way in Chinese from Singapore.
By Steve Herman Diplomatic efforts continue to try getting North Korea back to the negotiating table to discuss dismantling its nuclear weapons program. Japanese and Russian diplomats say it is too so
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 21 November 2006 Lebanon's minister of industry, a vocal anti-Syrian cabinet member, has been shot and killed in a Christian suburb of Beirut. The assassination comes at a politically tense time in the Lebanese capital. L
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 22 November 2007 Somalia's president has announced the nomination of a new prime minister for the country's embattled transitional government. As Derek Kilner reports from VOA's East Africa bureau in Nairobi, the new prime min
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown will give evidence to the country's Iraq Inquiry before general elections expected later in the year. The announcement came Friday following mounting pressure from opposition politicians. The chairman of the Iraq
Negotiations are underway in Israel to form a new government after the prime minister resigned. Robert Berger reports from the VOA bureau in Jerusalem. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni speaks to media after winning elections in Tel Aviv, 18 Sep
By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 24 September 2007 Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has apologized to the Japanese public for his abrupt resignation earlier this month. As VOA's Heda Bayron reports from our Asia News Center in Hong Kong, the Liberal Democrat
Today is the first deadline for Israel's current foreign minister to form a new government. Time is running out, as we hear from Robert Berger at the VOA bureau in Jerusalem. Tzipi Livni (file) Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's bid to become Israel's f
By Stefan Bos Budapest 19 September 2009 Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (r) and his Hungarian counterpart Gordon Bajnai inspect the honor guards in front of the Parliament building in Budapest, 18 Sep 2009 Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen
Minister: Zambia Losing Too Many Lions and Leopards Zambias tourism minister has announced a partial ban on the hunting of lions and leopards. She warns their numbers may be too low to allow safari hunting to continue for now. Whats more, therell be
Thailand's Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, 21 May 2010 Thailand could hold elections this year, Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij has told foreign correspondents in Tokyo. The minister is in Japan
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is visiting Damascus for the first time in more than a year. Outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his first visit to the Syrian capital in more than a year. Ob
By Margaret Besheer United Nations 03 October 2007 Following a week of intense international pressure on Iran to comply with U.N. resolutions demanding it suspend uranium enrichment, Tehran's top diplomat says his country is cooperating with the U.N.
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 29 October 2007 Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. VOA'S Jim Teeple reports from Jerusalem that Mr. Olmert says his cancer is treatable, and that it will have no effect on his
By Al Pessin Kabul 19 December 2007 Afghanistan's defense minister is planning a training surge that would increase the number of Afghan soldiers available to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida by as much as 20 percent by the time the weather improves in
The British prime minister has wrapped up a two-day visit to India with a call for sweeping reform of international institutions such as the United Nations and World Bank. The British leader's visit to India is part of efforts to build closer economi
Legislators in the Himalayan nation of Nepal on Friday selected, by a wide margin, a former guerilla leader to be the country's new prime minister. VOA Correspondent Steve Herman, in our South Asia bureau in New Delhi, reports on the ascent of the M
By Ron Corben Bangkok 03 October 2006 The new Thai prime minister, retired Army General Surayud Chulanont, is highly respected within his country. But Mr. Surayud faces enormous challenges in getting Thailand's democracy back on track following last
On Thursday morning, Australians were surprised to find they had a new Prime Minister. She is Julia Gillard, Australias first woman Prime Minister. On Wednesday, Kevin Rudd was still PM of the Australian Labour government, a position he has held for
By Meredith Buel Washington 08 October 2009 Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, said Wednesday terrorists are in retreat in his country and the Taliban are in disarray. The foreign minist