2005-02-19 Syria, Lebanon and the Killing of Rafik Hariri
I’m Doug Johnson with In the News in VOA Special English. President Bush says the United States supports the international investigation that will take place to identify the killers of…
2005-02-12 Israeli-Palestinian Truce; Historic Elections in Saudi Arabia
I’m Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met in Egypt this week and declared a cease-fire.…
2005-02-05 Bush Discusses Middle East Policy in State of the Union Speech
This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet with Israeli and Palestinian leaders before those leaders hold talks…
2005-01-29 Iraqi Elections
This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. On Sunday, for the first time in almost fifty years, Iraq will hold parliamentary elections with more than…
2005-01-22 Bush Second Term
I’m Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. President George W. Bush says the survival of liberty in America “increasingly depends on the success of liberty in…
2005-01-15 Middle East Peace Prospects
I’m Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. A Palestinian attack on Israelis at a border crossing has added to the pressures Mahmoud Abbas will face in…
2005-01-08 Aid for Tsunami Victims
I’m Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. Kofi Annan says helping survivors of the earthquake and killer waves in the Indian Ocean last week is a…
2005-01-01 Top News Stories of Two-Thousand-Four
I’m Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. This week we tell about some of the biggest news stories of two thousand four. We start in Asia,…
2004-12-18 Google to Put Millions of Books on the Internet
I’m Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. The Internet search company Google plans to put millions of library books online and make them searchable. This week,…
2004-12-11 Update on the Democratic Republic of the Congo
This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. The United Nations is investigating reports that Rwandan soldiers attacked civilians last month in the Democratic Republic of…
2004-12-04 United Nations Reform Plan
I’m Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. A high-level United Nations committee has released a report about reforming the world organization. The committee presented the report…
2004-11-27 Ukraine’s Presidential Election
I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Ukrainian officials this week declared Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych the winner of Ukraine’s presidential election. They say he defeated…
2004-11-20 Condoleezza Rice Nominated as Secretary of State
I’m Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. President Bush this week nominated his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, to replace Colin Powell as secretary of state.…
2004-11-13 Yasser Arafat Buried
This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. Yasser Arafat was buried Friday in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on the grounds of the Muqata.…
2004-11-06 Bush Describes Second-Term Goals
Mister Bush said American forces are making progress in training Iraqi troops. He said one hundred twenty-five thousand should be trained in time for elections in Iraq. Voting is planned…