U.S. President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney are spending Tuesday preparing for their first nationally televised debate of the 2012 presidential race. After several days of practice in his home state of Massachusetts, Mr. Romney arrived Monday in Denver, Colorado, the site of Wednesday’s debate. The former governor told cheering supporters the […]
Obama, Romney Make Final Debate Preparations
Posted October 2nd, 2012 at 2:55 pm (UTC-5)
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US Presidential Debates: Widely Watched, Seldom Election-Changing
Posted October 2nd, 2012 at 1:35 pm (UTC-5)
Millions of Americans will watch Wednesday night’s highly anticipated U.S. presidential election debate, but analysts say that rarely in the last five decades have the encounters shifted the ultimate outcome of the race for a four-year term in the White House. For days now, President Barack Obama, a Democrat, and his Republican challenger, former governor […]
Hamza’s Lawyer Says Alleged Terrorist Needs Medical Tests
Posted October 2nd, 2012 at 1:25 pm (UTC-5)
A lawyer for accused terrorist Abu Hamza says his client should not be extradited from Britain to the U.S. before he gets an MRI scan, after suffering several years of poor health. Lawyer Alun Jones told a London court Tuesday that Hamza’s health is deteriorating and said it would be “oppressive” to send him to […]
Rights Group Urges Egyptian Police, Military Accountability
Posted October 2nd, 2012 at 12:55 pm (UTC-5)
Rights group Amnesty International is urging Egypt to hold police and military members responsible for abuses against protesters and to reform those institutions to prevent future violations. Executive director of Amnesty International in the U.S., Suzanne Nossel, told VOA Tuesday that the London-based group documented in two reports abuses by the military under Egypt’s former […]
US Border Patrol Agent Killed in Shooting
Posted October 2nd, 2012 at 12:20 pm (UTC-5)
A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been killed and another wounded in a shooting in the southwestern state of Arizona near the border with Mexico. The agents were shot early Tuesday while patrolling on horseback in the town of Naco, Arizona. The Department of Homeland Security says the wounded agent was airlifted to a hospital […]
Saakashvili’s Party Concedes Defeat, Georgia Set for Transition
Posted October 2nd, 2012 at 12:10 pm (UTC-5)
Georgia is heading into a political transition after voters used parliamentary elections to knock the ruling party of President Mikheil Saakashvili from power. One day after claiming victory at the polls, President Saakashvili conceded defeat Tuesday to the Georgian Dream coalition led by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili. Mr. Saakashvili pledged in a televised statement to help […]
7 Crew Arrested in Fatal Hong Kong Ferry Crash
Posted October 2nd, 2012 at 12:05 pm (UTC-5)
Hong Kong police have arrested seven crew members from two passenger boats that collided in the city’s Victoria Harbor, killing 38 passengers. Police officials say the crew members were detained on suspicion of endangering the lives of the passengers, but gave few other details on Hong Kong’s worst maritime accident in decades. More than 100 […]
26 Killed in Attack at Northern Nigeria College
Posted October 2nd, 2012 at 11:30 am (UTC-5)
Officials say gunmen have killed at least 25 people at a student housing area in northeastern Nigeria. The attack took place late Monday at Federal Polytechnic College in the town of Mubi. Police spokesman Mohammed Ibrahim, in the city of Bauchi, tells VOA that the dead include 19 Polytechnic students. The radical Islamist group known […]
Billionaire Philanthropist Heads Victorious Georgian Opposition
Posted October 2nd, 2012 at 11:10 am (UTC-5)
Georgian opposition leader Bidzina Ivanishvili is known in the former Soviet republic as a once-poor, now-billionaire philanthropist who backed President Mikheil Saakashvili before his crackdown on public dissent and the 2008 territory war with Russia. Ivanishvili, who leads the opposition Georgian Dream coalition, is now poised to become prime minister, a position that will gain […]
Saakashvili’s Party Concedes Defeat, Georgia Set for Transition
Posted October 2nd, 2012 at 11:00 am (UTC-5)
Georgia is heading into a political transition after voters used parliamentary elections to knock the ruling party of President Mikheil Saakashvili from power. One day after claiming victory at the polls, President Saakashvili conceded defeat Tuesday to the Georgian Dream coalition led by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili. Mr. Saakashvili pledged in a televised statement to help […]
