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By Kari Barber Dakar 30 November 2006 Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission is denying reports that the commission has ceased work because of a lack of funding. A commission spokeswoman told VOA Thursday that a recent halt in field research
By Mary Morningstar Washington 12 May 2008 Country singer James Otto says many changes in his personal and professional life led to the range of emotions on his new album, Sunset Man. VOA's Mary Morningstar explains. It's taken James Otto six years t
By Bill Gasperini Sakhalin, Russia 20 October 2006 A giant energy project on Russia's remote Sakhalin Island has recently come under scrutiny because of environmental concerns. A foreign run consortium has long been building parallel gas and oil pip
By Phil Mercer Sydney 30 August 2007 Sydney is gearing up for the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, which starts next week. Residents are grumbling about traffic problems security preparations will create, while protesters are preparin
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 05 July 2007 The Bush administration is seeking to update a law governing U.S. foreign intelligence surveillance. But members of the Democratic majority in Congress are signaling they may be reluctant to approve the propo
By Uma Ramiah Dakar 17 March 2008 In the impoverished west African nation of Senegal, delegates from oil-rich Gulf nations and other Islamic countries have wrapped up a week-long conference. But for many Senegalese, questions remain over whether they
By Carol Pearson Washington 21 May 2008 The United States is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not provide universal health care for its citizens. And now, rising costs for both health care and for insurance premiums put health care o
The U.N. refugee agency says almost half of the Christian population in the Iraqi city of Mosul has fled after attacks and threats. UNHCR says nearly 10,000 people have fled to other areas in the past week. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from UNHCR he
Text Messaging Reminders for Flu Vaccinations Get Results In a world of seven billion people, communications industry records show that nearly six billion of us have access to a cell phone. In developing countries, health care workers in rural areas
A five-year Islamic insurgency in Thailand's southern provinces shows no sign of abating, although the military succeeded in reducing attacks in the past year. The new government in Bangkok must gain the confidence of the Muslim communities to make
Rescue teams search the site of the Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane crash in Tripoli, Libya, 12 May 2010 A Libyan airliner with 104 people on board has crashed during landing at Tripoli's airport. At least 103 people have been confirmed killed, with a
By Tendai Maphosa London 03 June 2008 Britain's Home Secretary is formally proposing to amend existing laws to allow the government to extend the amount of time it can hold terrorism suspects without charge from 28 days to 42 days. The measure has p
Kenya's foreign minister has dismissed a BBC report suggesting that a consignment of tanks and other military hardware aboard a hijacked Ukrainian ship was bound for South Sudan when it was seized by Somali pirates last month. The Kenyan government
By Heda Bayron Cebu 11 January 2007 Philippine officials played down three deadly bombings that came as Asian delegates gathered in the country for two regional summits. As VOA's Heda Bayron reports from Cebu, officials say the summits will go ahead
今天我们要学的词是measured。 Measured, 意思是谨慎的,经过反复斟酌的。 He was quite measured in his response to the criticism, 面对批评,他做出了很有分寸的反应。 The city council has adopted a measured approac
The Republican National Convention featured no shortage of attacks on Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, and signaled the Republican strategy in the coming general election campaign. VOA National correspondent Jim Malone reports from th
By Shally Zomorodi Los Angeles, California 11 December 2006 watch The Little Man Abbas Kazerooni as a young boy A young boy forced to live on his own by his parents. That's the story author Abbas Kazerooni shares in his new book, The Little Man. But
By Lauren Comiteau Amsterdam 02 May 2007 The International Criminal Court in The Hague says it has issued arrest warrants for a Sudanese government minister and a Janjaweed militia leader suspected of committing war crimes in Darfur. But as Lauren Co
High-level American envoys visiting Seoul say they are cooperating with regional allies to dissuade North Korea from the path of nuclear weaponry and back to dialogue aimed at disarmament. The delegation is making stops around Asia for consultations
By Paula Wolfson Washington 11 December 2006 President Bush, left, along with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks to members of media following their meeting at State Department in Washington, 11 Dec 2006 President Bush has begun three days o