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Southern Ministers Set To Rejoin Sudan Government
Thursday, 13 December 2007, 6:19 am | VOA News
Southern Sudan's main political party has said its ministers will rejoin a national unity government. A dispute between North and South over the status of the disputed Abyei region is still unresolved. More >>
Setting Emission Targets May Come Later, Says Ban
Thursday, 13 December 2007, 6:19 am | VOA News
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told reporters it may be too "ambitious" to set targets for greenhouse-gas emissions in the draft text of an agreement aimed at replacing the Kyoto Protocol to stop global warming. More >>
Car Bombings In Southern Iraq Kill 40, Injure 100
Thursday, 13 December 2007, 6:18 am | VOA News
Iraqi police say three car bomb explosions in the mainly Shi'ite southern city of Amarah have killed at least 40 people and wounded about 125 more. More >>
Democrats, White House Deadlocked Over Funding
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 10:43 pm | VOA News
As they put together a massive $500 billion measure comprising 11 separate unfinished government appropriations bills, Democrats blame President Bush and his advisers, and congressional Republicans for the impasse. More >>
CIA Briefs Congress On Interrogation Tapes
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 10:42 pm | VOA News
The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, General Michael Hayden, briefed members of Congress Tuesday about the CIA's decision to destroy videotapes of terror suspect interrogations. More >>
Blast In Lebanon Kills Top Army Officer
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 10:41 pm | VOA News
A military statement said Brigadier General Francois al-Hajj, head of military operations, and a number of his bodyguards were killed in the Wednesday morning blast in Baabda. More than 10 others were wounded. More >>
Twin Car Bombs Kill More Than 60 In Algeria
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 9:09 am | VOA News
Two car bombs have exploded in the Algerian capital, killing at least 62 people and injuring scores more. One of the blasts targeted several U.N. offices, and the United Nations says at least 12 staff members are missing. More >>
W Africans & Harrowing Stories Of Failed Migration
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 8:09 am | VOA News
Some of the survivors say they will try again, despite barely escaping death and throwing dead bodies into the ocean during the voyage, which ended in a shipwreck and back in Senegal. More >>
Senegal's Peanut Farmers Suffer From Poor Rains
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 7:28 am | VOA News
In Senegal, peanuts are the main cash crop. Farmers depend on them for 90 percent of their revenue, but this year the little money they will make will quickly dry up. More >>
UN Seeks $406 Million For Somalia Crisis In 2008
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 6:14 am | VOA News
The United Nations has issued an appeal for $406 million in 2008 to ease the humanitarian crisis is Somalia. The United Nations says years of chaos coupled with recent fighting mean that one and one half million people in Somalia need help urgently. More >>
Russia's Putin Urged To Assume Premier Post
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 6:12 am | VOA News
Dmitri Medvedev says it is not enough to elect a president who shares his predecessor's ideology. He says it is important to maintain the team formed by the current president. He says for this reason Vladimir Putin must become prime minister. More >>
NATO, Afghans Oust Taliban From Southern Town
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 6:10 am | VOA News
Afghan and NATO troops conducted clean up operations Tuesday in the southern town of Musa Qala - a day after ejecting Taliban militants who controlled the area for 10 months. More >>
US Criticizes Vietnamese Detention Of US Citizens
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 6:09 am | VOA News
Vietnam has been holding four Vietnamese-born American citizens since late November, accusing them of terrorism. The U.S. ambassador to Hanoi has criticized Vietnam's conduct in holding the U.S. citizens. More >>
Iranian Pres. Says No Legal Basis For Sanctions
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 6:09 am | VOA News
In Tehran Tuesday, Mr. Ahmadinejad praised the latest U.S. intelligence report that concluded Iran stopped a secret nuclear weapons program in 2003 as a "step forward." More >>
Israel Launches Gaza Offensive, 4 Militants Killed
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 6:08 am | VOA News
At least four Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli ground incursion into the Gaza Strip. The violence is casting a shadow over efforts to revive the peace process More >>
Voters To Elect New Govt In India's Gujarat State
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 6:07 am | VOA News
India's western state of Gujarat is electing a new state government. The polls will decide the political fortunes of a Hindu hard-line chief minister who rules the state and are being seen as a test for India's two main parties. More >>
Bali Climate Conference Enters Final Negotiations
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 6:05 am | VOA News
The United States, along with Japan and Canada, reject emission targets in the document. They argue it would prejudge the outcome of the negotiations on replacing the Kyoto Protocol, which aimed to reduce global warming. More >>
China Inflation At Highest Level In Over A Decade
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 6:04 am | VOA News
China's government said on Tuesday that the country's consumer prices - a key indicator for inflation - went up 6.9 percent in November compared to a year earlier. This is the highest inflation level in more than a decade. More >>
2 Car Bombs Kill More Than 60 In Algeria
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 6:01 am | VOA News
Algerian hospital sources say two car bomb blasts in Algiers have killed more than 60 people and wounded many others. The bombs went off minutes apart Tuesday, one outside an office of the U.N. refugee agency and the other near Algeria's court. More >>
Suicide Bomber Kills 2 Iraqi Policemen In Baghdad
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 6:00 am | VOA News
Iraqi officials say a suicide bomber has blown up a car near the homes of two senior Iraqi politicians in Baghdad. The attack killed two security guards and wounded 12 other people. More >>
