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By Pearse Lynch Nairobi 18 August 2006 Islamic militiamen in Mogadishu The catalyst for the ban took place late Thursday in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. A meeting at a local hotel to commemorate the anniversary of a Somali Islamic movement 28 ye
By George Dwyer Washington, DC 27 April 2006 watch Military Energy Cost The cost of fighting the war on terror is measured in blood and in treasure -- the number of lives lost, and the number of U.S.
By Scott Bobb Bangkok 27 April 2006 Thai soldiers remove remnants of a deadly clash at the Kreu Se mosque in Pattani province, near the border of Malaysia, April 29, 2004 In Thailand, security has bee
By David Byrd Washington 23 May 2006 When the World Cup gets under way in Germany next month, the odds-on favorite - Brazil - faces Croatia, Australia and Japan in the first round. The Brazilians shou
By David Lewis Goma 23 January 2006 UN peacekeepers guard a street in the center of Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo (File photo -Dec. 13, 2004) Eight Guatemalan Special Forces soldiers serving wit
By Michael Bowman White House 01 February 2006 President Bush used his State of the Union address to reaffirm American opposition to Iran's nuclear ambitions. The president also had a message for the
By Noel King Khartoum 22 March 2007 The human rights group Amnesty International says two women have been sentenced to death, by stoning, in Sudan for committing adultery. The sentence has raised questions about Sudan's penal code, based on Islamic S
By VOA News 24 January 2007 watch speech excerpt on African Health Dikembe Mutombo during the president's State of the Union address President Bush highlighted U.S. health initiatives in Africa during his State of the Union speech late Tuesday. The
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 22 January 2007 An international human-rights watchdog is warning that Rwanda could erupt into a new cycle of violence if the authorities do not protect participants of the country's grassroots trials that hear and prosecute
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 21 May 2007 Fighting between the Lebanese army and Islamic extremists has been raging around a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon. The death toll has climbed to more than 50 since the gunbattles started Sunday. VOA
By Phil Mercer Sydney 01 April 2007 Difference of switching many of the city's lights is shown in this combo taken one week apart in Sydney, on 24 Mar 2007, above, and 31 Mar 2007, below Parts of Australia's biggest city, Sydney, plunged into near da
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 12 March 2007 Los Angeles gets little respect as an artistic or cultural center from its rivals on the East Coast, such as New York or Boston, but the sprawling West Coast city is highlighting its role as a creative hu
By Stefan Bos Budapest 19 May 2007 Romania's suspended president Traian Basescu is fighting for his political life as voters decide, in a referendum, whether he should be removed from office on charges of abuse of power. But as Stefan Bos reports fro
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expected to name his new High Commissioner for Human Rights as early as this week. The new official will replace Louise Arbour who stepped down June 30 after serving a four-year term at the Geneva-based body. Fr
By Naomi Schwarz Ouagadougou 12 June 2007 In Africa, the number of private technology companies is increasing as entrepreneurs and technology workers cash in on this growing sector. For VOA Naomi Schwarz tells the story of one such entrepreneur from
By Mike O'Sullivan Palmdale, California 06 September 2006 Engineers in the California desert are testing a new communications platform that blends modern electronics with old technology. Developers say a helium-filled balloon carrying high-tech equi
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 09 May 2007 The human rights organization, Amnesty International, has presented an appeal from 147 countries to the United Nations to maintain an independent and effective system of human rights experts. A petition signed by mo
By Scott Stearns Washington 07 December 2006 U.S. President George Bush has kicked-off the official start of the holiday season in the nation's capital by lighting America's national Christmas tree. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns has th
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 06 August 2006 Child laborers who were rescued from small-scale industrial units wait to get themselves registered at a police station, in Bombay, India (File photo) India has announced it will ban the employment of chil