U.S. President Barack Obama has announced his new strategy for Afghanistan, which has military and civilian goals. VOA Correspondent Sean Maroney reports on the reaction from Kabul.
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Haiti and the Dominican Republic are the last two countries in the Caribbean region with known cases of malaria, and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says he hopes to see an eventual eradication of the disease in both countries. VOA’s Kane Farabaugh spoke recently with the former president an...
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The international climate conference in Copenhagen entered its second day amid reminders of global warming already underway and calls to produce a solid, workable deal in the days to come. VOA’s Sonja Pace is at the conference and has this report.
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Less than a year after he took office, U.S. President Barack Obama is preparing to go to Norway to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. He says he is humbled by the award and not sure he has done enough to warrant such a high honor. VOA’s Paula Wolfson reports a new public opinion poll in the United ...
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U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed a series of measures meant to aid small businesses and reduce the nation’s double digit unemployment rate. He wants to cut taxes and fees for small businesses, fund infrastructure projects and give consumers incentives to make their homes more ene...
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A broad inquiry of Britain’s involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq is under way in London. The five-member panel is expected to meet for a year and look into events from 2001 to 2009. Senior diplomats, military officials and politicians will testify, and the panel will review tens of thousa...
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Staying in an intensive care unit can be dangerous. A study of more than 1,000 hospitals around the world shows that about 50 percent of patients in an intensive care unit develop an infection that increases their risk of dying. VOA’s Carol Pearson has more.
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Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank say they will continue to defy their government’s order to freeze new construction for the next 10 months. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sought to quell the anger of settlers by saying that Israel will go back to building at the end of the 10-mo...
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Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank say they will continue to defy their government’s order to freeze new construction for the next ten months. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sought to quell the anger of settlers by saying that Israel will go back to building at the end of the 10-m...
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The United States is welcoming agreements by at least 25 nations to send roughly 7,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. The new numbers were announced at a NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels and were larger than earlier predictions. Lisa Bryant has more for VOA from NATO headquarters.&#...
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Industrial robots weld car parts together, assemble components for computers and move large containers of hazardous materials. Now researchers are taking the field of robotics one step further, by creating "socially assistive" robots that can provide personalized, interactive therapy to children...
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The upcoming climate change summit in Copenhagen comes amid warnings that rising temperatures and changing weather patterns are having a devastating impact on poor countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. VOA correspondent Peter Heinlein reports from Addis Ababa that African leaders are hopi...
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Afghan Reaction Toward New US Strategy Mixed
