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The Chinese navy and air force are joining the search and rescue effort for the missing AirAsia plane. The Chinese Defense Ministry says a frigate on routine patrol in the South China Sea is heading for the waters where the plane went missing. An Air
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Edgar Allan Poe And I'm Shirley Griffith. This year is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of writer Edgar Allan Poe. The United States Postal Service i
By David Gollust Washington 06 April 2006 U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said Thursday, the U.N. Security Council is close to adopting a resolution moving the war crimes case of for
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By Nina Maria Potts Brussels 21 June 2007 The first international trial of an African leader is set to reconvene June 25th, despite a faltering start after the defendant, former Liberian President Charles Taylor, refused to show up in court. Undeter
By Nico Colombant Abidjan 27 January 2006 Liberia's new president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is facing increased pressure to make sure her predecessor Charles Taylor is surrendered to the war crimes cour
By Nico Colombant Abidjan 30 March 2006 The U.N. helicopter sets off from Monrovia airport, Liberia, March 29, 2006, with captured former Liberian President Charles Taylor, en route to Sierra Leone Li
By Joe Bavier Abidjan 27 March 2006 Compound of the house where former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor lives near the sea side town of Calaber Supporters close to deposed Liberian leader Charles Taylo
By Kate Thomas Dakar 23 September 2009 Former Liberian President Charles Taylor sits in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court prior to the beginning of his defense case during his trial in The Hague, 13 Jul 2009 Former Liberian President
On New Year's Eve, Zimbabweans were still lining up outside South African government offices, attempting to become legal citizens in South Africa before the deadline on Friday. The South Africans have relaxed many immigration laws to allow as many Zi
The Egyptian village of Kafr Torky lies along the banks of the Nile, seemingly a world away from the passions that played out further north, in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Yet even in such a bucolic setting, the demonstrations and ultimate victory of the
Displaced Gazans Fear Returning Home Despite Israeli Assurances BEIT LAHIYA, GAZA The Israeli military has told residents of several neighborhoods in Gaza that they may return home, seeming to indicate that the operation to destroy infiltration tunne
By Lauren Comiteau Amsterdam 04 June 2007 Prosecutors and clerks in Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, the Netherlands, 04 Jun 2007 The trial of Charles Taylor opened without the accused in the dock Monday in The Hague, as the former Liberi
Dakar 08 May 2007 Prosecutors at the Special Court for Sierra Leone say everything is set for the Charles Taylor case to begin June 4 in The Hague. But the former warlord's lawyers have complained that they need more help. Kari Barber reports from VO
By Joe Bavier Freetown 03 April 2006 Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has made his first appearance before Sierra Leone's special war crimes court. Joe Bavier was at the U.N.-backed court in F
By Tendai Maphosa London 18 April 2008 Zimbabwe's economy is a shambles. Not long ago, Zimbabweans learned that their country's inflation rate, already the highest in the world, hit a new high of 165,000 percent. A Zimbabwean woman who gave her name
By Nico Colombant Dakar 02 February 2007 The war crimes trial for former Liberian President Charles Taylor is set for early June at the Hague. Prosecutors at the Special Court for Sierra Leone have charged Mr. Taylor with war crimes and crimes again
By Tendai Maphosa London 18 February 2008 Next month Zimbabwe holds presidential, parliamentary and local elections - the first time all three polls have been held together. But as Tendai Maphosa reports from London, analysts and exiles do not believ