2006-05-06 Galbraith and Jacobs: Remembering Two Voices of the 20th Century
I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Two influential thinkers of the twentieth century have died.…
2006-04-29 Politics and Bullets: Facing Maoist Rebels in Nepal and India
I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Mao Zedong led the revolutionary army that established the…
2006-04-22 Investigative Reporting, Coverage of Katrina Earn Pulitzer Prizes for U.S. Newspapers
I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, Columbia University in New York announced the…
2006-04-15 Iran Rejects Appeal to Stop Enriching Uranium
I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Iran has rejected an appeal from the head of…
2006-04-08 Delay, Leaving Congress, Has ‘No Fear’ of Any Wrongdoing Investigation
I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, Tom DeLay announced he will resign from…
2006-04-01 Punish Illegal Immigrants? Welcome Them as Future Citizens? Congress Debates Immigration
I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Immigration was a major subject as President Bush and…
2006-03-25 International Criminal Court Calls First Defendant, From D.R.C.
I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The world’s first permanent court for war crimes was…
2006-03-18 After Three Years, Iraq Still a Major Issue in American Politics
I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Three years ago, on March nineteenth, President Bush ordered…
2006-03-11 United States Releases Yearly Report on Human Rights Around the World
I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, the State Department released its “Country Reports…
2006-03-04 As New Orleans Marks Mardi Gras, a Dispute Affects a Deal Tied to Its Port and Five Others
I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. American lawmakers continue to debate the sale of some…
2006-02-18 Trying to Contain the Spread of Bird Flu
I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. More countries found the h-five-n-one virus in birds this…
2006-02-11 Exercise in Free Expression: How It Led to Deadly Costs
I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The drawings that have led to increasing protests by…
2006-02-04 ‘The United States Will Not Retreat From the World,’ Bush Says
I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Bush gave his State of the Union speech…
2006-01-28 Palestinians Described as ‘Simply in Shock’ After Hamas Win
I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The Islamic group Hamas won seventy-six of the one…
2006-01-21 Politics: One Woman President Takes Office, While Another Is Elected
I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, the people of Chile elected their first…