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The United States is committed to expanding its economic and cultural partnership with Iraq, said U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan on a recent trip to Baghdad. The Deputy Secretary congratulated the Iraqi people and Iraqi Security Forces,
Russias Communist Party still remembers Joseph Stalin, and so it seems to many other Russians. The Soviet dictator, who was responsible for millions of deaths during his thirty-year rule, has just come third in a poll of great Russians. Around 50 mil
Weekly Korea Protests Keep Japanese WWII Atrocities Alive 韩国人每周坚持抗议日本二战暴行 SEOUL Protesters gather in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul every week to demand an apology and reparations from Tokyo for the thousands of
By Lauren Comiteau Amsterdam 27 September 2007 Judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal have convicted two former Yugoslav army officers for their role in the 1991 murders of non-Serbs in the Croatian city of Vukovar. They acquitted a third former
New Internet Cafe Connects Afghan Women to World There is barely room to move as women crowd around laptop computers in this small cafe in central Kabul. The Afghan activist group YoungWomen4Change runs the cafe as a safe place where women can access
Manning Testifies in Wikileaks Pre-Trial Hearing To Bradley Mannings supporters, gathered on a cold rainy day outside the base where the hearings were under way, he is a hero. To U.S. military prosecutors, Manning is a traitor who leaked hundreds of
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has given a big boost of support to embattled Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf whose Truth and Reconciliation Commission has recommended that she be barred from holding further public office. Liberia's
East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta says it is up to Indonesian voters to judge a former army commander who hopes to become vice president in Wednesday's elections. Human rights groups accuse Prabowo Subianto of orchestrating atrocities in both
Rights Group: Prosecute Alleged Arms Dealer A human rights group is calling on Sierra Leonean authorities to investigate a suspected arms dealer. U.N. investigators have alleged Ibrahim Bah supplied arms to rebels during Sierra Leones civil war. The
美国谴责伊斯兰国暴行 The United States has condemned the deaths and atrocities committed by the Islamic State group in its campaign of terror in Iraq. A State Department official commented on a new United Nations report that says close to 1
Obama to Reassure Asian Allies WASHINGTON President Barack Obama begins a weeklong trip to Asia next Tuesday, in a bid to reassure allies in the region. Obama will travel to Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines. China is not on the itiner
Three teams of Chinese disease-control specialists are taking supplies and expertise to Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone to help fight the deadly Ebola virus. Each medical team will be composed of one epidemiologist and two specialists in disinfecti
By Catherine Maddux Washingron 10 April 2006 Maxwell Fornah, and Musa Vandi, who are both war amputees, battle for the ball in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Saturday, April, 1, 2006 The arrest of former Lib
DR Congo Nun Seeks to Expand Efforts to Help Victims WASHINGTON Sister Angelique Namaika, a nun who has dedicated her life to helping people brutalized by militants in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has announced that she will use the $100,000 pri
China has urged Japanese leaders to learn from post-war Germany in dealing with historical issues and wartime atrocities. Foreign Ministry spokeswomen Hua Chunying said Germany and Japans approaches have been vastly different. In particular, she poin
The U.S. State Department, responding to Wednesday's International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir, said those who have committed atrocities in Sudan should be held accountable for their crimes. The United States
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 14 November 2007 U.N. and AU mediators met with representatives of Sudan's neighbors in the Eritrean capital Asmara to discuss the way forward on peace talks aimed at ending the conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region. Derek
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 10 September 2007 Laurent Nkunda (2004 photo) Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda says violence is easing in restive eastern Congo after days of heavy fighting forced tens of thousands of people from their homes. As Nick Wad
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 14 November 2007 The head of a Mogadishu-based group that promotes human rights and democracy tells VOA that Somalis in the capital are fleeing by the thousands every day, largely to escape being used as human shields and becomi
Europe is remembering a time of darkness, as Tuesday marked 70 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. Some 300 Holocaust survivors returned to Auschwitz for a memorial event at the former site of the Nazi death camp, joined by world