2009-12-05 ‘Not Just America’s War’ Obama Says in Announcing Afghan Plan
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. American forces in Afghanistan have launched their first offensive since President…
2009-11-28 Corruption Digs Deepest in Countries in Conflict
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Transparency International is out with its two thousand nine report on…
2009-11-14 Remembering Wars of the Past, and the Present
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. November eleventh, nineteen eighteen, was the day Germany signed a cease-fire…
2009-11-07 A Second Term for Karzai; US Jobless Rate at 10.2
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. People in Afghanistan were supposed to vote again Saturday for president.…
2009-10-31 Gays and Disabled Are Now Protected Under Hate Crimes Law in US
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, President Obama signed an expansion of federal law on…
2009-10-24 Targeting Violence Against Women in Armed Conflicts
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. On September twenty-eighth, security forces attacked unarmed pro-democracy demonstrators in Conakry,…
2009-10-17 Pakistan Under Pressure From Wave of Attacks
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Two weeks of suicide bombings and other attacks have shaken Pakistan.…
2009-10-10 Obama, Faced With Two Wars, Wins Peace Prize
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This was the surprise announcement Friday from Oslo, Norway: THORBJOERN JAGLAND,…
2009-10-03 Crime Labs in US Come Under a Microscope
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The use of scientific knowledge in legal cases is called forensics,…
2009-09-26 G20 Leaders Talk About Economy — and Iran
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, leaders of the top industrial and developing economies gathered…
2009-09-19 Obama Replaces Bush’s Missile Defense Plan
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. In two thousand six, Defense Secretary Robert Gates advised President George…
2009-09-12 Obama Presses Case for Health Care Reform
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, President Barack Obama went before Congress and the nation…
2009-09-05 Japan’s Next Leader, Promising Change, Gets Ready to Take Office
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Japan’s parliament is expected to vote on September sixteenth to make…
2009-08-29 Looking Back at the Life of Edward Kennedy
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, Americans said goodbye to the last son of one…
2009-08-22 Public Urged to Ignore Afghan Candidates’ Claims of Victory
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission has a message: Pay no attention to…