The State Department says the Bush administration is engaged in a careful study of North Korea's latest position on the six-party nuclear talks, as co...
The parties to Zimbabwe's power sharing agreement have failed to agree on the allocation of cabinet posts. Tendai Maphosa reports for VOA from Harare ...
The U.N. General Assembly has voted to ask the International Court of Justice to give an advisory opinion on whether Kosovo's declaration of independe...
A group of international statesmen being called The Elders, including former U.S. president Jimmy Carter have arrived on the divided island of Cyprus ...
Kenya's foreign minister has dismissed a BBC report suggesting that a consignment of tanks and other military hardware aboard a hijacked Ukrainian shi...
For the second time in three days, police in Mauritania have used clubs and tear gas to disperse demonstrators calling for the re-instatement of the c...
The United States and the European Union have criticized recent parliamentary elections in Belarus, where opposition candidates failed to win a single...
The International Monetary Fund anticipates sharply lower world growth because of the financial crisis rippling across the globe. VOA's Barry Wood rep...
A Japanese and a pair of American scientists captured this year's Nobel chemistry prize for discovering a glowing green protein in jellyfish that can ...
U.S. and European central banks have in unison cut their interest rates by half a percentage point. The coordinated move is aimed at bringing some sta...
