2004-04-03 Afghanistan Aid Conference
This is Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Nations from around the world agreed this week to give more than eight-thousand-million dollars in development aid to…
2004-03-27 Hearings on September Eleventh, 2001, Attacks
This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English. Hearings took place this week into intelligence and law enforcement failures before the attacks on the United States…
2004-03-20 Iraq War Anniversary and the Madrid Bombings
This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English. President Bush said Friday that every government has a duty to fight and destroy terrorism. He said any…
2004-03-13 Iraq’s Temporary Constitution
This is Bob Doughty with In the News, in VOA Special English. A temporary constitution signed this week in Iraq takes effect on July first. That is one day after…
2004-03-06 French Parliament Bans Religious Symbols in Public Schools
This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English. This week, the French Senate approved a law to give public schools the right to ban almost anything…
2004-02-28 Bush Supports Constitutional Ban on Gay Marriage
This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English. President Bush this week urged Congress to pass an amendment to the United States Constitution to ban same-sex…
2004-02-21 Haiti’s Political Crisis
This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English. The Organization of American States, the O-A-S, met Thursday in Washington to discuss the violence in Haiti. Rebels…
2004-02-14 Iran Looks Back at Revolution and Ahead to Elections
This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English. Iranians this week observed the twenty-fifth anniversary of their Islamic Revolution. Many thousands of people gathered Wednesday in…
2004-02-07 Pakistani Nuclear Scientist Pardoned
This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English. Debate continues in Pakistan over the decision to pardon nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. Mister Khan admitted Wednesday…
2004-01-31 Chief Weapons Inspector Report on Iraq Weapons
This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. Former chief United States weapons inspector David Kay has called for an independent investigation into the United States…
2004-01-24 State of the Union
This Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. President Bush gave his yearly State of the Union message Tuesday. He spoke to a joint meeting of Congress.…
2004-01-17 Summit of the Americas
This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English. Leaders of thirty-four countries in the Americas met this week in Monterrey, Mexico. The leaders from north, central…
2004-01-10 Bush Proposes Temporary Worker Program
This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English. President Bush has proposed a temporary worker program for millions of people illegally in the United States. He…
2004-01-03 Top Stories of 2003
This is Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. American news experts at the Associated Press have chosen the top stories of two-thousand-three. Almost all the news…
2001-12-29 Argentina’s Economic Crisis
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS. Argentina’s new president has announced measures to ease a severe economic crisis in the country. Adolfo Rodriguez…