By Scott Stearns White House 26 October 2006 U.S. President George Bush has signed a law authorizing construction of more than 1,000 kilometers of fence along America's border with Mexico. Illegal immigration is an important issue in some of next mo

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 30 October 2006 Avigdor Lieberman (file photo) The Israeli Cabinet has voted to bring an ultra-nationalist party into the government. The partnership is likely to complicate efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace

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By David McAlary Washington 30 October 2006 The World Bank says rapidly diminishing tropical forests could be saved if farmers and loggers were paid not to cut the trees. It proposes to extend the current international system of carbon trading for t

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By Stefan Bos Budapest 30 October 2006 Serbia has overwhelmingly approved a new constitution that, among other things, declares Kosovo an integral part of Serbia, according to preliminary results. Independent observers and officials say that more th

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By Nico Colombant Kinshasa 29 October 2006 Vote-counting has started in the Democratic Republic of Congo, following a second-round presidential election to end a transition period, and years of war and misrule. The national election commission says

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By Stephanie Ho Washington 29 October 2006 The U.S. ambassador to Iraq is downplaying reports of an apparent dispute between Washington and Baghdad. VOA's Stephanie Ho reports from Washington, where officials deny the United States is trying to tell

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By Noel King Khartoum 29 October 2006 Sudan on Sunday denied accusations that the Sudanese Air Force bombed towns in eastern Chad this week. Chadian officials say the airstrikes have created panic among civilians in the region and threatened unspeci

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By Mary Morningstar Washington 29 October 2006 Country star Alan Jackson, 48, has dominated the Country charts throughout the past two decades. He's best-known for such uptempo hits as Don't Rock the Jukebox, Chattahoochee and his Grammy-winning due

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By Margaret Besheer Washington 28 October 2006 Amid reports of tension between President Bush and Iraq's prime minister, Mr. Bush has reaffirmed his support for Nouri al-Maliki. President Bush speaks during a rally In a show of unity, President Bush

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By Nico Colombant Kinshasa 29 October 2006 Security forces have had to intervene in several parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo, after voting for presidential and provincial elections was broken up by rioting. In the west of the country, there

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By Benjamin Sand Irbil, Iraq 21 October 2006 Iraq's interior minister held an emergency meeting Saturday with Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a day after armed members of the Shi'ite leader's militia briefly took over a key southern city. The recent

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By Noel King Khartoum 22 October 2006 Jan Pronk The Sudanese government is expelling a top United Nations envoy from Sudan, the foreign ministry said on Sunday. The expulsion comes in the wake of comments U.N. envoy Jan Pronk made on his Web site in

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By Nico Colombant Kinshasa 22 October 2006 In the Democratic Republic of Congo, recurrent clashes and criticism of police have marked early campaigning for the second-round post-war presidential run-off to be held October 29. ------ Kabila Supporter

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By Bill Gasperini Moscow 21 October 2006 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov welcomes US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Condoleezza Rice met behind closed doors with President Vladimir Putin and Russia's Foreign and Defense ministers to disc

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By Alan Silverman Hollywood 21 October 2006 The flag-raising on Iwo Jima is an icon: a photograph instantly recognizable and forever associated with World War II. A new film by Oscar-winner Clint Eastwood tells the stories of the men in that image a

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By Katherine Cole Washington 20 October 2006 The annual conference of the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) was held recently in Nashville, Tennessee. VOA's Katherine Cole attended, and filed this report on the 17th annual IBMA awards

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By Efam Dovi Accra 20 October 2006 Ghana has agreed to a U.N. request to contribute more troops to the peacekeeping force in Lebanon. The West African nation already has 700 soldiers serving in Southern Lebanon, where the security situation remains

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By Brian Padden Washington, DC 20 October 2006 The issue of philanthropy in America received much media attention recently when Warren Buffet, the world's second richest man donated more then $1.5 billion to the charitable foundation run by Bill Gat

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By Peter Heinlein United Nations 20 October 2006 The U.N. General Assembly has suspended voting until next week in a fiercely fought contest between Venezuela and Guatemala for a seat on the Security Council. Thirty-five rounds of balloting have pro

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By Carolyn Weaver Washington, DC 20 October 2006 The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross says the group has concerns about a new American law for the treatment and trials of detainees in the war on terror. Despite noting some positi

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