2009-06-06 Obama Calls for a ‘New Beginning’ Between US and Muslims
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Obama is calling for new efforts toward progress in peace…
2009-05-30 Woman in the News: Judge Sonia Sotomayor
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, President Obama announced his choice for an opening on…
2009-05-23 Iran Launches a Missile and a Presidential Race
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, Iran test-fired a new missile. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced…
2009-05-16 In Sri Lanka, a ‘Final Push’ to Defeat Rebels
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The Sri Lankan army has been leading what it called a…
2009-05-09 Leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan Meet With Obama in Washington
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Obama, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali…
2009-05-02 President Obama Marks 100 Days in Office
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week we look at President Obama’s first one hundred days…
2009-04-25 US Brings Charges against Accused Somali Hijacker
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. American government lawyers this week brought criminal charges against a young…
2009-04-18 Obama Turns Attention to Latin America
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, President Obama made his first official visit to Latin…
2009-04-11 Obama Returns From First Official Trip to Europe
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Obama returned to the United States this week after his…
2009-04-04 NATO at 60: A War in Afghanistan, and a Purpose to Redefine
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is sixty years old. On…
2009-03-28 Indian Automaker Launches World’s Lowest-Priced Car
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week the world’s lowest-priced passenger car was launched in Mumbai,…
2009-03-21 US Newspapers Seek Ways to Rewrite the Sad Story of Their Business
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has become America’s first major daily newspaper to…
2009-03-14 Growing Drug Violence Shakes Mexico, Threatens to Spill Into US
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. More than six thousand people died last year in Mexico’s drug…
2009-03-07 US Sees a Place for Iran at Meeting on Afghanistan
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The United States is proposing a big conference on Afghanistan and…
2009-02-28 Two Cases, Recession Bring New Attention to Domestic Violence
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Richard Nixon used to say that the first civil right…