cUS President Barack Obama will announce that advised strategy for the war in Afghanistan Thursday that will involve deploying at least 30,000 American troops. The White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says Tuesday the president would discuss the time frame in which she believes the United States can transition its forces out of Afghanistan.

“We’re going to accelerate going after al-Qaida and its extremist allies. We’re going to accelerate the training of an Afghan national security force.”

Again that the White House spokesman Robert Gibbs Voice of America will carry President Obama’s scheduled live address to the national about its against Afghanistan policy today at 1:00 Universal Time.

South African President Jacob Zuma says his country will embark a major expansion of testing and drug treatment for HIV-infected patients. Mr. Zuma announced the initiative Tuesday at ceremonies marking World AIDS Day in South Africa. The nation worse affected by HIV and AIDS. He said by next August the country will give treatment to all children less than 1-year-old who test positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Pakistani officials say a suicide bomber has killed a politician in the country’s volatile northwest. Authorities say the bomber blew himself up today and killed lawmaker Shamsher Ali Khan at his home in Kanju which is about 30 kilometers northwestern Mingora.

Supporters of victims of the world’s worst industrial disaster which happened 25 years ago this week are releasing new scientific studies claiming a continuing environment disaster in the central Indian’s city Bhopal. VOA’s correspondent Steve Herman has details from New Delhi.

Many people in Bhopal are still drinking water contaminated with dangerous chemicals. That  阅读全文>>