By Elizabeth Arrott Cairo 28 October 2009 Yemen's government has confirmed reports its coast guard has seized an Iranian ship with arms it says were destined for Yemeni rebels. Iranian media counters the Yemeni government is using al-Qaida in its wa

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Cyprus Poses Fresh Crisis as EU Questions Russian Investment In Cyprus the banks may still be closed, but lines at cash machines are still growing. Alongside the Cypriots withdrawing their savings are many foreign nationals. With a corporate tax rate

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In the opening paragraph of his new book, Dave Zirin writes this. Football is the closest thing we have in this country to a national religion, albeit a religion built on a foundation of crippled apostles and disposable mar

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Now a book mystery, not a mystery book. Handbook For Mortals is actually a fantasy paranormal romance. It hit the top of the most recent New York Times young adult best seller list, which seemed odd because not many people had ev

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Megyn Kelly and her NBC morning talk show may soon be off the air. Kelly was hired away from Fox News in 2017 with much fanfare and a big paycheck. Yet her time at the network has seen some controversy, including comments she mad

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ECONOMICS REPORT - Morgan Stanley, Boeing Settle Sex-Discrimination Cases / Martha Stewart's Sentence By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, July 23, 2004 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English

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By Kari Barber Dakar 25 October 2007 Human rights group Amnesty International released a report Thursday calling on the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to rein in its security troops and prosecute those accused of torture, murder and r

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Russia Concerned Over Georgia's Presidential Election 俄罗斯关切格鲁吉亚总统大选 TBILISI Before Russia fought a shooting war with Georgia, it fought a trade war with its small neighbor. First, Russia lifted a 7-year-old ban on Georgian w

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Kenyan Presidential Candidates Make Final Push 肯尼亚总统候选人最后一搏 NAIROBI, KENYA With just under a week to go before Kenyas presidential election, candidates are making their final efforts to court voters. 肯尼亚首都内罗比,距

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 05 September 2006 Nigeria's anti-graft agency has vowed to press on with corruption investigations in the northern state of Zamfara, despite a recent attack on a government office involved in a fraud probe. The anti-corrupt

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Togo's main opposition party says it will contest results announced by the electoral commission that indicate the country's president has won re-election. According to provisional results announced late Saturday by the electoral commission, President

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British Labour MP Diane Abbott, seen here in this November 30 1994, file picture, defended herself Wednesday Nov. 28, 1996 against accusations of racism after criticising the appointment of blonde, blue-eyed Finnish nurses at her local hospital. For

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Lebanese soldiers clear debris at a damaged checkpoint after an exchange of fire between Israeli and Lebanese troops in the southern border village of Adaisseh, Lebanon, 03 Aug 2010 Clashes along the border between the Israeli military and the Lebane

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Polls will open in less than 24 hours for Lebanon's parliamentary elections, and civil servants are preparing polling stations and ballot boxes for Sunday's crucial vote. International election monitors, including former president Jimmy Carter, will

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BBC news with Stewart Macintosh. The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has released a video purporting to show some of the school girls it abducted from the northern town of Chibok in 2014.The video features a masked armed man taunting the governmen

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By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 19 November 2007 Fires still smoldered Monday in Kano, in northern Nigeria, after a day of political violence during which police said six people were killed. Youth from rival political parties clashed after accusations of vote

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The UN Security Council is expected to meet shortly to again consider a call for humanitarian ceasefire in Syria as government forces bombard the rebel-held area Eastern Ghouta for a sixth day. A plan vote on Thursday was called off because of Russia

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: I was on assignment in San Francisco recently, and it involved some food tasting. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: So this is Chef Crenn's brioche served with a little bit of cultured butter and sea salt. It's her grandmother's recipe. What's

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NOEL KING, HOST: Here in the U.S., the Catholic Church has been in turmoil. In Pennsylvania, a grand jury report released this summer laid out decades of misconduct and cover-ups. More than 300 priests across the state were implicated. Despite all of

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Rescuers are cutting three rectangular holes on the bottom of the upturned ship to give divers better access. However, chances of finding any more survivors are rapidly fading now that it's almost 60 hours since the ship capsized with more than 450 p

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