The Bush administration said Thursday it will ask Congress for more than $10 billion in new military and reconstruction aid money for Afghanistan, where attacks by Taleban forces have been on the rise. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will press NATO allies for similar increases when they convene Friday in Brussels. VOA's David Gollust reports from the State Department.

A photographer or two on the beach in Hawaii is nothing compared to the Capitol Hill swarm that greeted the newest presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama.

President Bush says he will implement his revised Iraq strategy despite substantial Congressional opposition. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from the White House, the president and his top aides are defending his plan in a series of interviews on national television.

The morning after President George W. Bush announced plans to increase U.S. troop strength in Iraq, his secretaries of state and defense reinforced his determination to keep the country from collapsing under insurgent and sectarian violence.

A draft bulletin issued by the White House Office of Management and Budget prescribing technical standards for federal risk assessments is "fundamentally flawed" and should be withdrawn, according to a new National Research Council report.

Members and supporters of Amnesty International gathered Tuesday outside the White House to call on President Bush to pressure the Sudanese government to accept U.N. troops in its wartorn Darfur region. VOA's Sean Maroney reports from Washington.

The White House has confirmed that U.S. President George W. Bush will nominate the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, to be the U.S. representative to the United Nations.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and other top commissioners are heading to Washington D.C. to urge the Bush Administration to make compromises necessary to successfully conclude the stalled Doha Round of world trade talks. Teri Schultz reports from Brussels.

U.S. President George Bush says he is making good progress on a revised strategy for Iraq. VOA White House correspondent Paula Wolfson reports, the president spoke in the midst of consultations at his Texas ranch with his top national security advisers.

President Bush holds private consultations Thursday at his Texas ranch with members of his national security team. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from the White House that Mr. Bush is expected to announce a revised Iraq strategy in early 2007.

The White House says the detention in Baghdad of several Iranians suspected of inciting attacks against Iraqi troops validates the U.S. claim of Iranian meddling in Iraq.

A study says British Prime Minister Tony Blair's foreign-policy ambitions have stalled because he is unable to exert real influence on the White House -- despite offering the U.S. unflinching support.