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By Alan Silverman Hollywood 12 August 2007 Evil witches, a fallen star and a young man in search of his heart's desire: these are just some of the elements in the new fantasy-adventure film adapted from a novel by popular science fiction author Neil
By Paula Wolfson Washington 2-343290 28 October 2007 The head of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency says there is still plenty of time to resolve the dispute surrounding Iran's nuclear program. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports Mohamed ElBaradei says diplomac
By Liu Enming San Francisco, California 04 September 2007 Pipe picks up sounds created by waves At the tip of a tiny peninsula near San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Bridge stands the Wave Organ, a work of art that allows people to listen to mu
By Naomi Schwarz Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 14 June 2007 African governments looking for ways to decrease corruption and improve the lives of their citizens are increasingly turning to the idea of e-government, the use computers and the Internet to ex
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 13 September 2007 Suharto (file photo) Former Indonesian President Suharto's victory in his lawsuit against TIME magazine is raising questions about Indonesia's Supreme Court. Its decision to order TIME to pay a huge d
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 07 May 2007 A Nigerian defense lawyer is demanding urgent medical treatment for detained Nigerian separatist leader Mujahid Dokubo-Asari. Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports for VOA that Dokubo's deteriorating health could lea
By Jade Heilmann Dakar 10 December 2007 A lawyer involved in the case of the six French charity workers detained in Chad on suspicion of trying to illegally fly 103 children to Europe, has said they will be tried in a criminal court in Chad. Several
By David Gollust State Department 10 December 2007 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice marked International Human Rights Day Monday by honoring a Zimbabwe lawyers group that has defended democracy activists in that country. Rice also met with leaders
By Ron Corben Bangkok 16 January 2007 Thai worker stands next to a sign calling for increased minimum wage in Thailand (File photo) Political and policy uncertainties cloud the economic outlook for Thailand this year. As Ron Corben reports from Bangk
By Barry Wood Mitrovica, Kosovo 10 August 2007 Mitrovica is the second largest city in Kosovo and the only place in the mostly ethnically Albanian province where minority Serbs comprise a sizeable urban presence. VOA's Barry Wood visited Mitrovica, a
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 20 December 2007 Zimbabwe ended 2007 with uncertainty looming over national elections scheduled for next year. Negotiations aimed at holding a free and fair vote had made progress, but remained deadlocked over key points. S
By Luis Ramirez Bangkok 24 December 2007 Supporters of Thailand's ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra say they have enough support to form a coalition government, one day after winning a majority of seats in the country's new parliament. The ele
By Parke Brewer Chicago 03 November 2007 Russian boxers are showing they should be a force at next year's Beijing Olympics as they are headed for the top performance of the 107 countries at the amateur World Boxing Championships in Chicago. VOA Sport
By Jeffrey Young Washington 03 April 2007 Watch This is Montgomery County For many people outside the United States, the White House and Congress typify American government. But to most Americans, the local governments in their towns and regional ar
By Tom Rivers London 04 May 2007 Britain's ruling Labor Party has suffered local election losses in England and Wales and a swing to the pro-independence Scottish National Party in Scotland. Prime Minister Tony Blair is widely seen as the reason behi
By Jeffrey Young Washington 15 May 2007 To most Americans, the governments in their towns and regional areas called counties are the governments they interact with the most. And alongside these local governments are groups of citizens who work on the
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 13 March 2007 Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Tuesday moved to Somalia's volatile capital from the government's former base in Baidoa. Several hours later, witnesses reported seeing several mortar shells hitting Somalia's p
By Al Pessin Pentagon 30 October 2007 The U.S. Departments of State and Defense are moving toward a new system to control the activities of security contractors working for the two departments in Iraq. The department secretaries met Tuesday to review
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