By Lisa Schlein Geneva 30 June 2007 Pakistan this weekend is closing two camps for Afghan refugees. The U.N. refugee agency is urging the government of Pakistan to make sure the closure goes peacefully. Violent clashes occurred in mid-May when Pakist...
By Scott Stearns Washington 30 June 2007 President Bush President Bush says U.S. troop reinforcements in Iraq are helping to reduce sectarian violence and car bombings in Baghdad. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, opposition Democr...
By Kari Barber Dakar 30 June 2007 Ivory Cost rebel leader and new prime minister Guillaume Soro (Apr 2007) An Ivory Coast government minister has announced several arrests in connection with a rocket attack on an airplane carrying Prime Minister Guil...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 30 June 2007 The U.N. refugee agency is ending its repatriation program for Liberian refugees Saturday. Since the operation began 2.5 years ago, the UNHCR has helped more than 100,000 refugees return home from neighboring count...
By Sonja Pace London 30 June 2007 British police officers walk past tourists in the pouring rain in central London, 30 Jun 2007 London is on alert - police have stepped up patrols and a search is under way for a man seen running from a Mercedes car...
By Brian Wagner Miami 30 June 2007 Critics of racial desegregation plans in U.S. schools have welcomed a Supreme Court decision Thursday blocking some school integration measures. In Miami, VOA's Brian Wagner reports that supporters of desegregation...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins East Timor 30 June 2007 Officials in East Timor say voting to elect a new parliament has been relatively peaceful, raising hopes that the election can bring stability to Asia's newest nation after violence last year nearly top...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 30 June 2007 Majority Democrats are vowing to go ahead with plans for a new legislative push to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq after Congress returns next month from a week-long break. VOA's Dan Robinson reports from Capi...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 29 June 2007 The commander of U.S. troops in Baghdad says al-Qaida cells are being cornered into fighting rather than fleeingthe new offensive by his forces and the Iraqi army. Major General Joseph Fil says the result is continu...
By Tendai Maphosa London 29 June 2007 Hours after British police defused a bomb in an abandoned car in London's theater district, police say they have found bomb components in a second vehicle in central London. Authorities say both cars contained ca...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 29 June 2007 The U.N. Security Council has closed down the agency charged with monitoring Saddam Hussein's illicit weapons programs. Correspondent Peter Heinlein reports from U.N. headquarters in New York. U.N. Securi...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 29 June 2007 Former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is launching a new organization to improve humanitarian assistance around the world. Mr. Annan says the new organization, called the Global Humanitarian Forum, will help peo...
By Gary Thomas Washington 29 June 2007 The release of once-secret documents detailing past abuses by U.S. intelligence agencies opens a window into the sometimes dark history of the CIA. Most of the information in the documents, which date back more...
By Paul Sisco Washington, D.C. 29 June 2007 The American bald eagle, a national symbol since 1782, was once almost wiped out by hunters and pesticide poisoning. Today the great bird is not only surviving but thriving. Four decades after it was decla...
By Arjun Kohli Nairobi 29 June 2007 In the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in Somalia, a swarm of locusts has stripped fruit trees and crops, causing an agricultural emergency in a country already suffering acute food shortages. Arjun Kohli report...
