By Lisa Schlein Geneva 11 May 2008 A Red Cross plane loaded with 35 tons of equipment and materials has landed in Burma. The International Committee o...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 11 May 2008 A Middle East ceasefire could be in the offing during a week of high diplomacy. But Israel has mixed feelings, ...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 11 May 2008 The U.N. refugee agency reports the number of people arriving on the coast of Yemen after being smuggled across the...
By Michael Bowman Washington 11 May 2008 Iraq's ambassador to the United States says his country still needs U.S. reconstruction assistance, despite l...
By Suzanne Presto Irbil 10 May 2008 Spokesmen for the Iraqi government and the movement of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr say the two sides ag...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 10 May 2008 The UN refugee agency warns it may have to reduce or even suspend a number of aid programs for hundreds of thousand...
By Ed Yeranian Beirut 10 May 2008 Hezbollah said it would withdraw all its fighters from the streets of Lebanon's capital, after Lebanon's army comman...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 10 May 2008 The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says it has sent the first UN convoy of aid overland into Burma, and a planeload of s...
By VOA News 10 May 2008 The latest count of Democratic Party superdelegates shows Barack Obama has eliminated Hillary Clinton's lead among the officia...
By Scott Stearns White House 10 May 2008 U.S. President George Bush is at his Texas ranch, where his daughter Jenna is getting marriedin a private cer...
