Race Chronicles Triumph, Struggles of Track Star Jesse Owens in Segregated America When U.S. track star Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, it damaged Adolph Hitler's propaganda on Aryan supremacy. Yet, despite his t

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The CEO of Uber has resigned from President Trump's economic council. Travis Kalanick says people misinterpreted his presence on that council as an endorsement of the president, and he's quitting amid a consumer boycott. NPR's La

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: Two reports out today provide the clearest picture yet of the extent to which Russia went to influence voters ahead of the 2016 presidential election. The reports focus on a Russian troll factory's use of nearly every major social

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By Joe Bavier Kinshasa 15 January 2007 The Democratic Republic of Congo Monday buried Cardinal Frederic Etsou, Cardinal Frederic Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, Archbishop of Kinshasa (File Photo) the head of the country's Catholic church and only its second

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By Derek Kilner Nairobi 24 October 2007 A major rebel group in the Darfur region of western Sudan says it will not attend peace talks with the government that are scheduled to begin Saturday in Libya. As Derek Kilner reports for the VOA from Nairobi,

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By Barry Newhouse Islamabad 23 November 2007 Former Prime Minister and leader of the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz Sharif is planning to return to Pakistan, ending his seven-year exile in Saudi Arabia. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad that

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By Kane Farabaugh New York City 21 November 2007 The sale of Burmese gems has become the target of a growing boycott following the violent crackdown of pro-democracy protesters in Burma in September. While Burma's ruling military government holds ano

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By VOA News 27 December 2007 Pakistan's former prime minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday at a campaign rally just two weeks before parliamentary elections. Police say a suicide bomber fired gunshots at Ms. Bhutto j

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By Barry Newhouse Washington 27 December 2007 The suicide attack that killed opposition leader and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has sparked riots in several cities and thrown Pakistan's crucial January elections into doubt. VOA's Barry Newh

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By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 16 April 2008 Ethiopia's electoral commission and several opposition parties are trading accusations of illegal actions as the country prepares for the second phase of municipal council and parliamentary by-elections. VO

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Some Boycott Sri Lanka Commonwealth Meeting 斯里兰卡称抵制阻碍不了英联邦峰会成功召开 LONDON The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting gets underway Friday in Sri Lanka. Critics say Colombo should not host the summit because of

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Women Recall '63 March on Washington WASHINGTON In August of 1963, an estimated 250,000 people from across the country gathered for the March on Washington to call for racial equality. The turnout on the National Mall was a credit to organizers such

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By Stefan Bos Budapest 17 November 2007 The people of Kosovo are voting Saturday for a new local government. All the main political parties in the Albanian-majority province have pledged to gain independence from Serbia. Kosovo's Serbian minority is

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 17 March 2007 The new Palestinian national unity government has been sworn in, after it was overwhelmingly approved by parliament Saturday. The ruling Islamic militant group Hamas now begins to share power with the rival an

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By Kari Barber/Prince Collins Dakar/Monrovia 07 October 2007 During German Chancellor Angela Merkel's last stop on her first sub-Saharan Africa tour, she met with Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to discuss how to bring economic prosperity to

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By Efam Dovi Accra 07 February 2007 In Ghana, Monday's sentencing of an opposition member of parliament to 10 years in prison for fraud has raised political tension between the government and the biggest opposition party. The National Democratic Con

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 08 October 2007 A respected figure in the Darfur rebellion has accused the Sudanese military of killing more than 100 people in the town of Haskanita, where 10 African Union peacekeeping personnel were killed last week during an

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 11 January 2007 The United Nations is suspending technical support for parliamentary elections in Bangladesh. The elections are being boycotted by one of the country's two main political alliances. As Anajana Pasricha re

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By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 11 April 2008 Ethiopia's ruling party appears headed for a massive victory in local and parliamentary by-elections being held across the country over the next two Sundays. VOA's Peter Heinlein in Addis Ababa reports the

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By Mona Ghuneim New York 11 September 2007 The United States marked the sixth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States with ceremonies, tributes and silence all over the country. From VOA's New York Bureau, Mona G

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