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Bhutto Pessimistic On Chances For Free Elections
Monday, 19 November 2007, 11:39 am | VOA News
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto says the recently-concluded visit of a top U.S. envoy played a critical role in securing her release from house arrest, but adds that more steps need to be taken if Pakistan is to hold free and fair elections, ... More >>
US Urging West Bank Settlement Freeze -- Israeli
Monday, 19 November 2007, 9:43 am | VOA News
Israeli officials say the United States is pressing Israel to declare a complete freeze on construction in West Bank settlements. Israeli officials say that message was delivered to aides of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert who visited Washington last ... More >>
Insurgent Attacks Kill 17 Across Iraq
Monday, 19 November 2007, 9:42 am | VOA News
The car bomb exploded in central Baghdad's Karrada district Sunday as a convoy carrying an Iraqi finance ministry official passed by. At least 20 people were wounded, while the official escaped unhurt. More >>
OPEC Promises To Keep Providing 'Sufficient' Oil
Monday, 19 November 2007, 9:42 am | VOA News
Leaders of OPEC countries have ended their summit in Saudi Arabia with a promise to continue providing what they call "sufficient" oil supplies to the world market. More >>
Saudi Gas Pipeline Fire Kills 28 Workers
Monday, 19 November 2007, 9:41 am | VOA News
Saudi Arabia's national oil company says a fire along a gas pipeline has killed 28 workers in the country's eastern province. Aramco says the blaze started before dawn Sunday while workers were performing maintenance. More >>
Former Guerrilla Claims Win In Kosovo Elections
Monday, 19 November 2007, 9:40 am | VOA News
Former ethnic-Albanian guerrilla leader Hashim Thaci has claimed victory in Kosovo's parliamentary elections, although votes are still being counted in the Serbian province. More >>
Nigeria, Cameroon Seek To Repair Ties After Attack
Monday, 19 November 2007, 9:38 am | VOA News
Representatives of Nigeria and Cameroon say the recent killing of 21 Cameroonian soldiers in the disputed Bakassi peninsula will not damage ties. Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports officials are pressing for a joint investigation. More >>
ASEAN Does Not Support Sanctions Against Burma
Monday, 19 November 2007, 9:38 am | VOA News
Some Southeast Asian leaders gathering for a summit in Singapore say they do not support sanctions against Burma following the military government's violent crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators. Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ... More >>
100 Miners Dead Missing In Ukraine Coal Mine Blast
Monday, 19 November 2007, 9:37 am | VOA News
Emergency Situations Ministry says 63 miners are dead and the fate of 37 others is not known after a methane gas explosion ripped through a coal mine on Sunday. The deadly blast is the latest incident to spark concerns about the safety of mines in ... More >>
Powerful Cyclone Lashes Bangladeshi Coast
Friday, 16 November 2007, 11:21 am | VOA News
A powerful cyclone that slammed into Bangladesh's southern coast Thursday is slowly making its way across the country, after leveling thousands of houses and forcing more than 600,000 people to evacuate. More >>
Group Says Nigeria Behind Cameroon Soldier Attacks
Friday, 16 November 2007, 9:44 am | VOA News
One of the most potent militant groups operating in Nigeria's oil-rich delta region, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, says the Nigerian military were behind a cross-border raid that left 21 Cameroonian soldiers dead on ... More >>
Ugandan Peacekeepers Dismiss Somali Islamic Threat
Friday, 16 November 2007, 9:43 am | VOA News
The spokesman for the Ugandan army says Uganda's 1,600 peacekeeping troops in Somalia will stay in the capital Mogadishu and defend themselves against any attack by militant Somali Islamists, whose leader has vowed to destroy the African Union force. More >>
Two Koreas Say Train Service May Resume Soon
Friday, 16 November 2007, 9:42 am | VOA News
North and South Korea have not had regular train service across their heavily armed border in more than half a century - but that may be about to change within weeks. Prime Ministers from the two Koreas say they are finalizing the details to reestablish ... More >>
Zimbabwe Inter-Party Negotiations Make Progress
Friday, 16 November 2007, 9:42 am | VOA News
After many delays negotiations in Harare between the ruling ZANU-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change have reached a critical point and the parties have reportedly agreed to new laws governing elections due next year. More >>
Caretaker Government To Take Office In Pakistan
Friday, 16 November 2007, 9:41 am | VOA News
Pakistan's parliament is scheduled to dissolve itself at midnight Thursday to make way for a new caretaker government to oversee January elections. While President Pervez Musharraf tries to make the elections appear credible despite emergency rule, ... More >>
UN Rights Expert Visits Notorious Burmese Prison
Friday, 16 November 2007, 9:40 am | VOA News
U.N. human rights envoy Paulo Sergio Pinheiro has visited Burma's notorious Insein Prison Thursday in an effort to talk with political detainees before wrapping up his first visit to the country in four years. It was not immediately clear whether ... More >>
Local Economists Urged To Address African Issues
Friday, 16 November 2007, 9:40 am | VOA News
U.N. Economic Commission for Africa Executive Secretary Abdoulie Janneh says homegrown talent is an essential component in Africa's future economic success. Janneh made the comment in his keynote address to the three-day economic conference being sponsored ... More >>
Scientists In Oregon Clone First Monkey
Friday, 16 November 2007, 9:39 am | VOA News
US scientists have cloned a monkey, using the resulting embryos to grow valuable stem cells. The development is the first time a primate embryo has been created, leading experts to speculate that it's a matter of time before human embryos are ... More >>
Palestinian President Calls For Hamas Overthrow
Friday, 16 November 2007, 9:38 am | VOA News
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called for the overthrow of Hamas, the Islamic militant group that rules the Gaza Strip. The call was made during a crackdown by Hamas against journalists and members of the rival Fatah faction in Gaza. More >>
UK Court Agrees To Extradite Radical Cleric To US
Friday, 16 November 2007, 9:38 am | VOA News
A British court has ruled that radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri can be extradited to the United States to face terrorism charges. The court in London issued the ruling Thursday. More >>
