Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has rejected opposition calls for a timetable for withdrawing his country's troops from Somalia. As VOA's Peter...
Thailand and Cambodia have moved to end hostilities by agreeing to joint patrols in diplomatic efforts to end a border dispute that flared into confli...
For the second time in a month American troops in eastern Afghanistan have been fired on by a local policeman. VOA Correspondent Steve Herman reports ...
The United States Thursday joined European monitors in citing improvement in the conduct of Azerbaijan's presidential election, despite the huge victo...
Aid agencies warn that East Timor faces a food crisis and more than half of its youngest children are going hungry as global food prices soar. A new s...
One of the unexpected stars of Wednesday night's U.S. presidential debate turned out to be someone who was not even on the stage in New York. A man ca...
For the past several decades Republican presidential candidates have been able to count on winning in the Rocky Mountain states so they could concentr...
Fears of a global recession and falling oil prices are driving Gulf stock markets down dramatically, once again, and the generally morose economic cli...
European stock indexes have been lower, following earlier falls in Asia. For VOA, Tom Rivers reports from London. Fears of a sharp global economic slo...
The U.N. food agency Director General Jacques Diouf urged member states to comply with financial commitments undertaken during a food security summit ...