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The Prime Minister, Helen Clark is attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government conference in Uganda. The Queen is Head of the Commonwealth and opened the 3-day conference. She talked about the importance of democracy and education. Prince Charles
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 28 February 2007 Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi won a confidence vote in the Senate on Wednesday, exactly one week after he submitted his resignation. Sabina Castelfranco reports from Rome for VOA that the vote ensure
By Brian Wagner Miami, Florida 30 October 2009 The de facto Honduran government has agreed to a deal that may allow ousted President Manuel Zelaya to return to power ahead of elections next month. U.S. diplomats have been in the country to mediate a
By Scott Stearns White House 12 January 2006 President Bush praises Gulf Coast residents for their rebuilding efforts during a visit to Saint Louis, Mississippi President Bush says the federal governm
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 01 February 2006 An Uganda Constitutional Court ruling that bars the military from trying opposition presidential candidate Kizza Besigye on terrorism charges is being challe
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 12 January 2007 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says American troops could begin withdrawing from Iraq later this year if the revised Iraq war plan announced by President Bush this week succeeds in reducing violence i
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 17 May 2006 Italy's 61st post-war government, led by center-left leader Romano Prodi has been sworn in after five weeks of political vacuum. The government must now win con
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 15 May 2007 The U.S. official in charge of emergency preparedness has pledged there will be no repeat of the chaotic government response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, saying federal authorities are ready to deal with the
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 26 March 2008 In the Comoros, central government troops are mopping up pockets of resistance one day after they landed on the rebel-held island of Anjouan. VOA's Scott Bobb reports from our Southern Africa Bureau in Johanne
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 27 December 2006 Somali government troops, backed by Ethiopian forces, Wednesday were heading to the Somali capital, the base of the Islamic Courts Union. But Ethiopia's information minister tells VOA it is not his country'
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 25 October 2006 Three journalists arrested by the transitional Somali government are being questioned for their work in an area under the control of the Islamic Courts Union. The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders is cal
By Sonja Pace London 23 October 2006 Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, left, meets with visiting Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh, Monday Oct. 23, 2006 raqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh says his government is working to take greater
The two major U.S. presidential candidates are expressing reservations about the Bush administration's $700 billion bail-out of ailing financial institutions. Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama both agree on the need for government act
By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 05 July 2006 An Australian soldier salutes after receiving an M-16 assault rifle handed over by a rebel soldier in Gleno, East Timor Rebel soldiers in East Timor have turned in a handful of weapons to international peacekeep
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 08 February 2007 The Kenyan government has promised to crack down on the flow of illegal arms into urban areas and the people using them. The government says a flood of weapons into Kenya from neighboring Somalia is partly respo
A Malaysian minister has quit his post in protest about the government's crackdown on the opposition by using a draconian law which allows indefinite detention without trial. As VOA's Nancy-Amelia Collins reports from Jakarta, the government is faci
By Ron Corben Bangkok 05 February 2007 Thai prime minister Surayud Chulanont has fired the Thai police chief after he failed to make progress in the investigation of bomb attacks in the capital Bangkok. As Ron Corben reports from Bangkok, new polls s
Pakistan's government has reached a new peace agreement aimed at stopping a militant group from threatening the northwestern city Peshawar. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad on the latest in a series of controversial agreements that critic
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 17 November 2006 In Zimbabwe, the association representing commercial farmers is reacting with caution to the government's latest offer to compensate white farmers for farms seized under a controversial land reform program
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 20 June 2007 The South African government has made what it says is a final offer to end a 20-day old strike by civil servants. Both sides agreed to disregard a Wednesday deadline, and postponed until Friday further talks ai