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By Jim Stevenson Shanghai, China 30 September 2007 The United States has placed third place at the Women's World Cup football tournament in China. VOA's Jim Stevenson has more from Hongkou Stadium in Shanghai, where the U.S. women were 4-1 winners ov
By Daniel Schearf Islamabad 30 September 2007 The head of the United States Drug Enforcement Agency has praised Pakistan as a model for eradicating drug production. But, she says more cooperation is needed from neighboring Afghanistan where record-hi
Top Priority for FBI In Minnesota: Somali Extremists在明尼苏达州联邦调查局优先考虑:索马里极端分子 MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA U.S. law enforcement officials say preventing Somali Americans from aiding the terrorist organization al-Sh
By Carolyn Weaver New York 09 August 2007 Design is a topic most often associated with luxury goods. But an exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York focuses on innovative ways to address the needs of the world's poor. The objec
Five alleged conspirators in the September 11 attacks, who are on trial at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have told the judge they want to confess, and have withdrawn all legal motions filed as part of their defense. In the specially b
By Greg Flakus Guatemala City 07 September 2007 In spite of violence that claimed some 50 lives, officials in Guatemala say they are prepared to carry out an efficient and secure electoral process on Sunday when voters go to the polls to elect a new
Japan's ruling party has begun hunting for someone to replace Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, who has stepped down. Mr. Fukuda had been in office just under a year. Jason Strother has more from Seoul. Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party can not see
Amid a continuing housing crisis in the United States, the Bush administration is taking over two failing mortgage firms in an effort to limit further turmoil in the sector. From Washington, VOA's Michael Bowman reports. The last year has seen a spi
A factional leader in Somalia's Eritrea-based opposition group is denying allegations by a piracy specialist in Kenya that he is aiding radical Islamists by providing them with weapons bought with money earned from piracy. Yusuf Mohamed Siad, better
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 21 August 2007 Hedayat Noor, right, father of Naeem Noor Khan with his lawyer Babar Awan after a hearing at a court in Rawalpindi (File photo - 14 Dec 2004) Pakistan has released an alleged al-Qaida operative without charge
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 07 August 2007 Scattered violence continued a day after independence hero Xanana Gusmao was named the new prime minister of East Timor. VOA's Nancy-Amelia Collins in Jakarta has more. Australian troops guard empty road
By Edward Yeranian Beirut 07 August 2007 A Lebanese government spokesman says police have killed the second in command of the Fatah al-Islam terrorist group, which has been battling the Lebanese Army in a Palestinian refugee camp for more than two mo
By Meredith Buel Manchester, New Hampshire 06 January 2008 Republicans and Democrats seeking their party's U.S. presidential nomination have debated important foreign policy issues, just days before the nation's first presidential primary in New Hamp
Hours after the Mauritanian president fired top military officials on Wednesday morning, three of the fired officials seized the presidential palace and established a new state council. They have announced that President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abd
A drawn out six-year civil war has emptied beachside villages in divided Ivory Coast, like in one area called Assinie, where groups of European tourists used to come in busloads. And now beach erosion is adding to the problem, destroying the beach h
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 03 May 2008 The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, says more than 200 child soldiers held by rebels have been demobilized following seven months of negotiations. UNICEF says the children, including one girl, were being hel
The United Nations secretary-general is expressing hope that two envoys he has dispatched to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda can contain what Ban Ki-Moon calls a very serious situation in the region. Speaking to reporters in the Indian c
The U.N. refugee agency reports more than 50,000 people have been forced to flee their homes by fighting in the Ituru region in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from UNHCR headquarters in Geneva. U.N. refugee s
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 17 September 2007 Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has launched his bid for a second five-year term, with the creation of a new political alliance and the support of several of the country's most powerful political leaders. Nick W
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 15 August 2007 Nigeria has won praise from the international community for free-market reforms that have spurred high levels of growth, slashed inflation and earned the country significant debt relief. And as Gilbert da Cost