President Bush has met at the White House with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports the wide-ranging talks covered issues from trade to human rights. President Bush, right, meets with Vietnamese PM Nguyen Tan Dung i

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Human Rights Trial in Guatemala Could Set Global Precedent Chanting justice, justice, protesters in Guatemala City reacted angrily to the suspension of the trial earlier this month. The protesters, mainly indigenous people, want the 86-year-old forme

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By Barbara Schoetzau New York 12 July 2006 The world's most expensive painting is now on exhibit in New York's Neue Galerie. The head of the small museum purchased the exotic Gustav Klimt painting less than one month ago for what experts say is a re

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By Al Pessin Taormina, Italy 09 February 2006 Donald Rumsfeld speaks with the press aboard his airplane American Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says NATO's plan to take over security operations in

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 10 June 2006 Mahmoud Abbas during a press conference at his headquarters in Ramallah, June 10, 2006 Moderate Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has called a referendum on a two-state solution, in a major challenge to the new

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By Stephanie Ho Washington 14 May 2006 The United States is repeating its position that the best way to resolve the stand-off with Iran over its nuclear program is through the United Nations. A top U.

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By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 11 December 2006 watch Rumsfeld Iraq The departure of U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld this month roughly coincides with the end of Lieutenant General Peter Chiarelli's tour as Commander of Multinational Forces

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 02 February 2006 US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has compared Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to the Nazi leader Adolph Hitler, sa

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 08 December 2006 U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has cautioned against moving too fast to remove U.S. troops from Iraq, responding to the Iraq Study Group report this week that recommends removing most U.S. combat forces

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Istanbul, one of the very greatest of Islamic cities, the monuments of the conquering Turkish Sultans whod ruled here since 1453, dominating its skyline. Underneath there are much older ghosts, brushed each day by people of the living city, the ruins

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 11 October 2006 U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says his main concern following North Korea's claim that it tested a nuclear explosive is that it could provide nuclear technology to other countries, and to terrorist grou

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By Cheng Xiaohong St. Petersburg, Florida 09 January 2007 watch Salvador Dali Museum report Eccentric, iconoclastic, genius -- Salvador Dali was the epitome of all. For producer Cheng Xiaohong, Elaine Lu takes a look at the Salvador Dali Museum and

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But Simon was a nutter. Simon had tremendous presence like an emperor. He sat still and silent, and in his contest between flesh and the devil, it seemed to most people, that he was beyond touch. And there he was, on his pillar, half way between heav

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 04 December 2006 The secret Iraq policy memo written by U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in early November and made public on Sunday has created a political stir in Washington. The New York Times and the Washington Post p

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By Sonja Pace Jerusalem 19 July 2006 Israeli warplanes destroyed the center of the southern market town of Nabatiyeh, Lebanon, Wednesday July 19, 2006 Israel carried out more air strikes in Lebanon, killing dozens of civilians while Hezbollah rocket

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By Al Pessin Washington 09 May 2006 Donald Rumsfeld U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has welcomed indications by Iraq's new leader that he is close to forming a national unity government, but sa

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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

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 07 March 2006 U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has accused Iran of sending members of an elite military force into Iraq to stir up trouble. Defense secretary held a news co

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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

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Squares become circles, circles octagons, and all around a single central point. Space spins into ever smaller spaces. It's as perfectly mysterious as the finest natural crystal. The walls, the columns, seem to be nothing more than an illusion, and s

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