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Former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been extradited to The Hague where he will stand trial for his role in the Bosnian war of the 1990s. VOA's Sonja Pace reports from London. After 13 years on the run and one week after his arrest in the
By Paula Wolfson White House 12 September 2006 Watch or Listen to the President's Speech Windows Video Real Video Download MP3 Audio View Full Text (White House) President Bush has marked the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist at
U.S. farmers are suggesting they're worried about their future amid the trade frictions between China and the United States, particularly in the American pork sector. China is the third largest importer of American pork. However, there are concerns t
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 16 November 2007 The U.S. Senate has failed to approve additional funding that the Bush administration wants for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As VOA's Deborah Tate reports from Capitol Hill. White House spokesman Ton
Supersized America Losing War on Fat First Lady Michelle Obama has been making the talk-show rounds, plugging an exercise program called Let's Move. Designed to get America's young people in motion, it is one of a number of efforts to attack the nati
By Jim Malone and Kathy Scarrah Washington, DC 16 February 2006 view War on Terror report Politics and the War on Terror, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden President Bush continues his push to rally dom
By Nico Colombant Kinshasa 17 November 2006 watch Congo AIDS report A hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo has a death row aisle for female victims of HIV/AIDS, but most do not even know they are close to death, or even that they are infecte
By Mil Arcega Washington 21 February 2008 Japan's Toshiba Corporation effectively ended the format war over the next-generation DVD players after announcing this week that it would no longer manufacture HD DVD players and recorders. The announcement
THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History Series: From Revolutionary War Hero to President From VOA Learning English, welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in Special English. Im Steve Ember. This week in our series, we tell the story
THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: War on Terror Turns to Iraq STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. GEORGE W. BUSH: Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is
By VOA News 24 January 2007 As Prepared for Delivery House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, right, and Vice President Dick Cheney applaud President Bush prior to the president delivering his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington Madam Speake
By Kent Klein Washington 24 May 2008 On Monday, Americans honor their military war dead. In his weekly radio address Saturday, President George Bush says Americans should remember the sacrifices of U.S. troops past and present. Democrats are also hon
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 26 September 2009 The United Nations refugee agency says security continues to deteriorate in Somalia. At the same time, it says poverty is increasing as prolonged drought is destroying ways to make a living in the country. In
Amid Violent Drug War, Mexicans to Choose New President Campaigning around Mexico came to a close with lots of noise.. Ruling party candidate Josefina Vasquez Mota is upbeat, even though she trails in the polls. Leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez
Kachin Rebels Live in Limbo as War with Burma Drags On Four hundred Kachin refugees get regular donations of food and other aid at a Catholic-run camp. The youngest were born while in the camp, enlarging families that fled fighting between the Burmes
More than 300 scientists from 14 countries brought their skills to the Greenland base camp over five summers. Jim White studies really old ice. He thinks it will help predict what the climate will be like in the future. White is director of the Insti
Several days of anti-war activities in Washington have culminated with the procession of symbolic coffins across the streets of the capital. Many demonstrators said they had supported President Barack Obama in his election in 2008, but were now disap
The U.N. human rights office says war crimes and crimes against humanity may have been committed during the conflict in Sri Lanka, possibly by both the government and Tamil Tiger rebels. A Sri Lankan Defense Ministry photo shows army soldiers patrol
Civil War Songs Reset for 21st Century The U.S. Civil War may be a century and a half behind us, but American emotions about the conflict can still be raw. Director Peter Sellars has taken music by Pulitzer-prize winning composer George Crumb and upd
Government appointed panel began its first public hearings in London in an inquiry expected to last until the end of 2010 and possibly beyond. Its mission is to examine Britain's role in the Iraq war and its aftermath Sonja Pace | London 24 November