The U.N. World Food Program says that nearly half the population of Zimbabwe will need food aid by early next year. Peta Thornycroft reports that WFP ...
Russia has praised recent parliamentary elections in Belarus while international observers criticized the balloting. In this report from Washington, S...
Afghan government and United Nations humanitarian officials say the flow of refugees, who have been streaming back into the country recently, is so fa...
The recent turmoil in the world's financial markets has made investors nervous. There are thousands of investment clubs around the United States, and ...
A new report finds nearly a third of refugees and other people cared for by the U.N. refugee agency are not getting their basic needs met. Lisa Schlei...
Indonesia closed its stock exchange for the second day to halt a flurry of selling that sent the main stock index plummeting more than 20 percent this...
Asia's stock markets are calming down after days of heavy selling. Economists and market analysts say coordinated interest rate cuts in the United Sta...
The crisis in world financial and stock markets has not dramatically affected most African nations. But African economists say the continent could exp...
Education used to be a top priority for Zimbabwe's government. But as Tendai Maphosa reports from Harare, the country's economic and political crisis ...
President Bush has signed legislation that paves the way for civilian nuclear trade between the United States and India. From the White House, VOA's M...
