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By Peter Fedynsky Kyiv 30 September 2007 Ukrainians cast their ballots in a special parliamentary election, in which domestic and international observers sought to assure an honest vote.Opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko says she will ask President V
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 30 September 2007 India's Central bank has announced a series of measures aimed at slowing the rupee's rise against the dollar. As Anjana Pasricha reports, the strong rupee is hurting several sectors of the economy. The C
By Malcolm Webb Nairobi 31 August 2007 The ODM-Kenya opposition party Friday chose Kalonzo Musyoka as their presidential candidate to run in the forthcoming general election in Kenya. His former ally, Raila Odinga, is expected to be running against h
By Dorian Jones Istanbul 27 July 2007 The July 22 general election in Turkey resulted in a landslide victory for the Islamic rooted Justice and Development party, or AK. While many people in Turkey are still coming to terms with the scale of the vict
By Lisa Bryant Paris 12 September 2007 Man at the genocide cemetary of Kigali, Rwanda (file photo) A French appeals court is examining a demand to send two Rwandan genocide suspects to the International Criminal Tribunal in Tanzania. Lisa Bryant has
By Deborah Tate Washington 12 July 2007 U.S. Senate (file photo) For the first time in U.S. Senate history, a Hindu clergyman delivered the chamber's daily prayer Thursday, but only after Capitol police removed several protesters who disrupted the se
By Greg Flakus Mexico CIty 26 July 2007 The July 5 and July 10 bomb attacks on natural gas pipelines in central Mexico led to the temporary shutdown of factories in several industrial cities and raised fears about the country becoming a target for te
By Jim Malone Washington 09 August 2007 Republicans in the state of South Carolina have announced they will hold their 2008 presidential primary in mid-January. That decision has set off a chain reaction among other states that could result in the fi
By Phuong Tran Abeche, Chad 24 August 2007 Despite heavy rains that have made military battles almost impossible, smaller but deadly inter-communal clashes are still breaking out around the borders separating Chad, the Central African Republic and Su
By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 05 August 2007 An aerial view of the Siachen Glacier, northwest of Jammu, India U.S. scientists say clouds of man-made haze that blanket southern and eastern Asia are helping accelerate the melting of the Himalayan glaciers.
By Barry Wood Washington 18 July 2007 The House of Representatives Financial Services Committee Tuesday heard from economists who agreed the weakening dollar is likely to decline further. VOA's Barry Wood reports. Committee member Ron Paul, a conserv
By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 29 August 2007 Philippine security forces are on high alert for possible attacks by communist rebels after Dutch authorities arrested their exiled leader in the city of Utrecht. VOA's Heda Bayron reports from our Asia News Ce
By Kari Barber Thiaroye, Senegal 23 January 2007 watch Senegalese Immigration Tens of thousands of Senegalese and other West Africans left their homes and set out for the Canary Islands during the past year, hoping to find economic opportunity. The
By Mil Arcega Washington 05 July 2007 Sirivat Voravetvuthikun, the Thai sandwich man Ten years after the Asian stock market plunge left him $30 million in debt, a 57-year-old Thai entrepreneur has become a symbol of optimism and perseverance in his c
By Retno Pinasti and Rafael Setyo Washington 21 August 2007 A coal-powered engine on the Strasburg Railroad A visit to Strasburg, Pennsylvania is a trip to the past, a time when steam powered the railroads and horse-drawn implements were used to farm
By Mil Arcega Washingon 06 August 2007 More than 200 day laborers and advocates from across the United States converged on Capitol Hill Thursday to call for a moratorium on immigration raids. The National Day Laborer Organizing Network or NDLON spons
By Kane Farabaugh New York 20 September 2007 Government corruption and control of the diamond industry fueled the civil war that erupted in Sierra Leone in 1991. By the end of the decade, fighting had spread throughout the African country and includ
By Tom Rivers London 01 September 2007 Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto says that despite stalled power-sharing talks, she will be heading back to her country soon. She made the announcement Saturday in London. For VOA, Tom Rivers has d
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 10 July 2007 In West Africa, multiple generations of Lebanese have been vital members of the community since the early 1900s. Today, many say they retain a strong emotional connection to Lebanon, but, that Africa, where most we
By Michael Bowman Washington 09 July 2007 For years, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has spoken almost daily about his vision of so-called 21st Century socialism. Yet many Venezuelans of varying political persuasions are unsure what the slogan means