2010-01-16 A Race Against Time to Get Help to Haitians
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Food. Water. Medicine. Hope. All that and more is urgently needed…
2010-01-09 Attention Turns to Yemen in Anti-Terror Fight
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Yemen is the poorest Arab nation. Poverty can help breed extremism…
2010-01-02 Economy Was Top News Story of 2009
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. At the end of each year, editors and news directors of…
2009-12-26 A Compromise on Climate Change
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Almost two hundred countries met for two weeks at a United…
2009-12-19 Why We Should Care About Trust, and Worry About a Lack of It
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Think of your family or friends. How well would those relationships…
2009-12-12 Aiming for a Deal on Climate Change
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. In Copenhagen, Denmark, the United Nations Climate Change Conference opened this…
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,…