The former deputy chief of Indonesia's state intelligence agency has been charged with the murder of prominent human rights activist Munir Thalib. VOA...
Former Chinese leader Hua Guofeng, who ruled the country briefly after the death of the founder of modern China, Mao Zedong, is dead. Official media s...
U.S. officials say they are close to an agreement with Iraq on the future of the U.S. troop presence in the country. But they deny reports that an agr...
U.S. President George Bush has expressed solidarity with the people of Pakistan in a phone call with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. VOA White Hous...
Americans Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh have won their second Olympic gold medal, defending the beach volleyball title they won four years ago in ...
A group of Darfurian refugees who recently fled the war in Sudan have gathered across the border in the northern Central African Republic. But rather ...
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has said that if the government moves forward with plans to convene parliament next week, it would viol...
Israel is warning the United States and other countries not to pressure it into reaching what it says could be a premature Palestinian peace agreement...
Russia says all of its forces in Georgia will be withdrawn by late Friday into a 'buffer zone' around the separatist region of South Ossetia, where Ge...
Russia has stopped all military cooperation with NATO after alliance foreign ministers said future ties depend on Russia pulling back troops in the fo...