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Nigeria Bans Siemens Over Bribery Scandal
Friday, 7 December 2007, 6:07 am | VOA News
Nigeria has canceled a supply contract with telecommunications company Siemens and suspended dealings with the company, pending an investigation into allegations it gave more than $14 million in bribes to Nigerian officials. More >>
Philippines Convicts 14 Abu Sayyaf Militants
Friday, 7 December 2007, 6:05 am | VOA News
A Philippine court has convicted 14 militants of kidnapping 20 people in a 2001 incident that eventually left two Americans dead, including one who was beheaded. More >>
Scientists Urge Fast Action On Global Warming
Friday, 7 December 2007, 6:04 am | VOA News
More than 200 of the world's leading climate scientists signed a petition calling for negotiators in Bali's United Nations Climate Change Conference to set aggressive targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. More >>
Arms Sales To Taiwan Key To China-US Relations
Friday, 7 December 2007, 6:03 am | VOA News
Former United States President Jimmy Carter has for the first time revealed passages from his private diary on the negotiations that established relations with China. More >>
S. Korea Calls For Flexibility Over Nuclear Talks
Friday, 7 December 2007, 6:02 am | VOA News
Six-nation talks on the North's programs are unlikely to reconvene as expected this month, in an apparent snag over what should be included in the North Korean declaration. More >>
Sharif Prevented From Visiting Iftikhar Chaudhry
Friday, 7 December 2007, 6:01 am | VOA News
Pakistani riot police Thursday prevented opposition leader and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from meeting the country's ousted chief justice, who is under virtual house arrest. More >>
Gunman Kills 8 In US Shopping Mall, Kills Self
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 4:46 pm | VOA News
Police in Omaha, Nebraska said they believed the man was the only shooter in the incident at the Westroads Mall, which was crowded with holiday shoppers. Authorities identified the shooter as a 19 or 20-year-old local man named Robert Hawkins and ... More >>
US Marines Not Deploying To Afghanistan
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 4:45 pm | VOA News
General James Conway says in a meeting last week Defense Secretary Robert Gates rejected his proposal for the Marines to give the western Iraq mission to the Army and take on some of the security effort in Afghanistan. More >>
US Proposes Nuclear Dialogue With China
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 4:44 pm | VOA News
The United States has proposed starting a dialogue with China on nuclear weapons and strategy. The proposal came during an annual meeting between senior U.S. and Chinese defense officials at the Pentagon, which included military officers responsible ... More >>
Somali President Denies Serious Health Problems
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 4:44 pm | VOA News
In a telephone interview Wednesday with VOA's Somali service, Mr. Yusuf said people should ignore what he called baseless rumors that he is near death. He said he takes periodic trips abroad for check-ups and that this trip is one of those. More >>
DRC Army Takes Back Rebel-controlled Town
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 11:20 am | VOA News
Army leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo say they have taken back the strategic eastern village of Mushake from forces allied to renegade rebel leader Laurent Nkunda. The army says it will move north into rebel territory in an effort to eradicate Nkunda's ... More >>
US Envoy: North Korea Disabling Nuclear Programs
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 10:16 am | VOA News
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill has returned from a visit to North Korea where he says nuclear disablement is going well, but gaps remain on Pyongyang's agreed nuclear declaration. More >>
Ahmadinejad Claims Victory In Nuclear Dispute
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 9:57 am | VOA News
Iran's president declares victory over the United States and other world powers in the dispute about Tehran's nuclear ambitions. The Iranian leader says this week's U.S. intelligence report supports Iran's assertion that its nuclear program is for ... More >>
Us Supreme Court Hears Case On Guantanamo Bay Deta
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 8:45 am | VOA News
U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement represented the Bush administration, which contends that foreign terror suspects captured and held outside the United States have no rights under the U.S. Constitution to appear before civilian courts. More >>
Israeli Troops Ready To Move Into Gaza
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 8:44 am | VOA News
The Israeli military says it has completed plans for a major offensive in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip aimed at halting Palestinian attacks. A ground operation is ready to start, pending the government's approval. More >>
Blast Kills 15 In Baghdad During Gates Visit
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 8:43 am | VOA News
A car bomb blast in central Baghdad has killed at least 15 people during a visit by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Despite the violence, Gates told reporters a secure and stable Iraq is within reach. He was making an unannounced visit to assess ... More >>
Somalia Pres. Health & Speculation Over Successor
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 8:42 am | VOA News
Somalia's interim President Abdullahi Yusuf spent a second day in a hospital in the Kenyan capital Nairobi amid growing reports that the 72-uear-old leader is gravely ill. With no clear successor there is mounting concern of increasing turmoil in Somalia. More >>
Rice Consults African Leaders On Region Flashpoint
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 8:41 am | VOA News
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, for a whirlwind series of meetings with African leaders on a series of regional flashpoints, from Somalia to Darfur to the Great Lakes region. The secretary of state's focus ... More >>
Climate Change Conference Positions Spark Debate
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 8:40 am | VOA News
At the U.N. conference on Global Climate Change in Bali, the early talk has focused on whether some of the major developed countries will commit to cutting greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years. More >>
Trade, Mugabe Dominate Prep. For EU-Africa Summit
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 8:40 am | VOA News
Concerns over trade deals and the expected presence of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe have dominated preparations for this weekend's European Union-Africa Union summit. Senegal has been trying to play a lead role on both issues. More >>
