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By Peter Heinlein United Nations 29 November 2006 Iran's president has issued an open letter to the American people in which he criticizes U.S. policies in the Middle East. VOA's Peter Heinlein reports the letter was released at U.N. headquarters in
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 02 July 2006 Pope Benedict XVI delivers his speech during Angelus prayer, July 2, 2006 Pope Benedict XVI expressed concern Sunday about the escalating violence in Iraq and the Middle East. He also made an appeal to safegu
By Al Pessin Pentagon 30 August 2006 The Defense Department has called on the Associated Press to correct a report that it says mischaracterized a speech by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday. But the AP is standing by the story and many o
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 23 May 2007 Pope Benedict Pope Benedict acknowledged on Wednesday that unjustifiable crimes were committed during the colonization of the Americas. The pontiff, who has been criticized by Indian groups, recently returned f
By Lisa Bryant Paris 25 April 2006 Chernobyl Twenty years after an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine, European countries remain deeply divided over the use of nuclear power
By Sabina Castelfranco Warsaw 26 May 2006 Pope Benedict XVI celebrates mass in Warsaw, Friday The rain in Warsaw did not dampen Polish enthusiasm for Pope Benedict XVI, who is on a pilgrimage of faith and sentimental journey to his predecessor's hom
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 26 February 2006 Pope Benedict XVI waves to faithful during the Angelus prayer in St. Peter's square, at the Vatican, February 26, 2006 Pope Benedict XVI says God will seve
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 21 March 2006 Egypt says it might have its third human case of bird flu. A woman has preliminarily tested positive for the virus, but further tests are being run to confirm
Even though Russia and Ukraine have backed off from their energy war, Eastern Europe and the Balkans face natural gas shortages after Moscow closed the taps for deliveries destined for Europe. Europeans are facing a harsh winter in which at least a
U.S. President Barack Obama will address a joint session of Congress for the first time, about the challenges the nation faces. The economy will be the main topic in the nationally-broadcast speech. President Barack Obama (file photo) The economic c
The U.S. energy secretary says global warming is proceeding more quickly than originally predicted. Stephen Chu is in China, the world's top emitter of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, to urge greater Sino-American cooperation to comb
Economic Hard Times Increase Immigration Tensions in Europe Amid Romes many architectural splendors sits an unassuming doorway. It leads to a counseling center for immigrants, run by the Catholic Church. These people, some from the European Union and
By Doug Levine Washington 06 September 2006 Famed jazz trumpeter and bandleader Maynard Ferguson died of kidney and liver failure at a hospital in Ventura, California on Wednesday August 23. He was 78 years old. Like the late Dizzy Gillespie, Fergus
Hopes were dashed Tuesday as European stocks were flat following Monday's heavy losses on Wall Street. The losses in the U.S. Monday that pushed the Dow index below the 7,000 level for the first time in a dozen years spilled over Tuesday onto the ov
By Barbara Schoetzau New York 10 February 2006 Kofi Annan U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is urging Iran to suspend its nuclear activity and allow talks with Russia to move forward. ----------------
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 05 September 2006 East African heads of state meeting in Kenya are vowing to send a regional peacekeeping force into volatile Somalia, a move that could undermine an agreement signed Monday between the Union of Islamic Cour
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 13 May 2007 Villagers are dwarfed by giant windmills built by the Danish Development Agency in northern Philippines (File) The Asian Development Bank is helping to finance a 100-megawatt wind energy plant in India as part
By Paula Wolfson White House 17 January 2007 Big changes are being made in a highly controversial domestic surveillance program launched by the Bush administration after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the United States. VOA's Paula Wolfson
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 06 April 2007 For the second year, Pope Benedict led the traditional Way of the Cross procession in Rome's ancient Coliseum. Thousands took part in the solemn ceremony. For VOA, Sabina Castelfranco reports from Rome. Pope
By Doug Levine Washington 05 January 2007 Bluesman Mark Hummel hasn't taken a vacation in years. He's too busy touring and making records. As VOA's Doug Levine tells us, Hummel's also the founder and bandleader of the internationally acclaimed Blues