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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, Iran test-fired a new missile. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the launch to a crowd in Semnan province, his birthplace and a base for missile launches. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dur
By Dan Robinson Capitiol Hill 16 March 2007 Former undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame, who has been at the center of a controversy involving the role White House officials played in revealing her identity, has testified in public for the first tim
By Kurt Achin Seoul 27 April 2006 The World Trade Organization has canceled a minister-level meeting scheduled for late April, admitting that members are not ready to meet a deadline for a trade liber
By Sonja Pace London 28 March 2007 Britain has announced it is freezing all bilateral business with Iran, except efforts to gain the release of 15 British naval personnel seized by Iranian forces last Friday. As VOA's Sonja Pace reports from London,
By Meredith Buel Washington 17 November 2006 Recent elections for the U.S. Congress and continuing bloodshed in Baghdad have renewed debate over whether there should be a timetable for American-led coalition forces to leave Iraq. Many critics of the
By Jeff Swicord Washington, DC 19 September 2006 watch Iranian Artifact Suit It is a case that has victims of a terrorist bombing seeking restitution from a U.S. museum, and the U.S. State Department and the government of Iran on the same side. Jeff
By Lisa McAdams Moscow 22 February 2006 Vladimir Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin says he is still hopeful a positive result can be reached with Iran concerning the international dispute over it
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 22 January 2007 A senior U.S. diplomat says the international community needs to bring more pressure on Iran to end, what he describes as, its efforts to develop nuclear weapons. Jim Teeple has details from our Jerusalem burea
North Korea has told international agencies it will conduct its planned launch of what Pyongyang says is a satellite in early April. North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket became all but inevitable as Pyongyang informed international agencies i
NASA Identifies Shuttle Endeavour's Heater Glitch NASA says engineers at Kennedy Space Center believe they have identified the cause of the heater failure that forced the postponement of the launch of the shuttle Endeavour. NASA technicians say the f
The International Committee of the Red Cross is appealing for access to all areas of conflict in Libya as fighting intensifies. The president of the ICRC, Jakob Kellenberger, says the conflict in Libya has descended into civil war. He says he is alar
By Jim Malone Washington 13 April 2006 Confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui complained about his defense lawyers Thursday during his sentencing trial in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside
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 Michael Drudge London 10 March 2006 The chief of the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference says the West's showdown with Iran over its nuclear program should be resolved through diplomac
By Margaret Besheer Washington 04 November 2006 As international tensions continue to rise over Iran's nuclear ambitions, the Iranian regime has tested new military weaponry in the third day of war games in the Persian Gulf. Iran's elite Revolutiona
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 04 August 2006 Among the last issues to come before the U.S. Senate before lawmakers began their August recess were cybercrime and cybersecurity. Senators ratified an international treaty aimed at cracking down on crimes
By Gary Thomas Washington 12 June 2006 The United States and its European allies have offered Iran a package of incentives to get Tehran to abandon any ambition to build nuclear weapons. Iran has not rejected the package outright, but is standing fi
U.S. military officials say they have identified the four Marines seen on video urinating on the bodies of dead Afghan Taliban fighters. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service, heading the main inquiry into the video, has also reportedly questioned
By Gary Thomas Tehran 20 July 2006 Iran says it is still studying a package of incentives offered by the West to get Tehran to halt uranium enrichment. The country's National Security Council has also accused the United States of attempting to block
By Al Pessin Kansas 18 December 2006 Army training troops who will serve as advisers to the Iraqis are seen in Fort Riley, Kansas, 28 Oct 2006 In the raging debate over the future of U.S. policy toward Iraq, there is one point on which all sides see