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At least ten people have died after suicide bombers attacked a hotel popular with westerners in the Afghan capital Kabul. Police in the Afghan capital say at least five suicide bombers have blown themselves up at the Intercontinental Hotel. A Taliban
Nelson Mandela is back home after being discharged from hospital.The former South Africa president,who has been treated for a long standing of abdominal complaint and has undergonelaparoscopy.Government officials say,the tests didn't indicate anythin
Turkey's Kurds Seek Way Forward Amid Post-election Crackdown 土耳其的库尔德人寻求出路摆脱选举后的镇压 DIYARBAKIR, SOUTHEASTERN TURKEY The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has widened a crackdown on media and on
First up today, a natural disaster in Indonesia. This weekend wasn\'t the first time Mount S. erupted. It\'s been doing that on and off for months now; but it is the first time that an eruption from this volcano has killed someone. At least 15 people
Muqtada Al-Sadr is an Iraqi religious and political leader. He is also a militia commander and is head of the Mahdi Army. He is strongly opposed to Americas presence in his country but has stuck to a 2005 truce, which has seen levels of violence decr
Palestinian activist groups are calling for a boycott of the 2019 Eurovision song contest, set to be held in Israel. In an open letter, the groups said they are seeking a boycott because of Israels continuing actions against Palestinians. The letter
By Edward Yeranian Beirut 24 November 2007 Lebanon's Prime Minister Fuad Siniora says his care-taker government will temporarily assume the powers of Lebanon's president, until parliament is able to elect a successor to Emile Lahoud, who left offic
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 05 July 2007 In another blow to Somali government plans to hold a long-delayed peace conference to end the country's 16-year-old civil war, elders of the most dominant clan in Mogadishu, the Hawiye, have failed to resume talks t
This is AP news minute. 1. 20th century Fox says Bill OReilly, the Talk Show host dogged by allegations of sexual harassment is out at Fox news. His departure comes just weeks after the New York Times reported that millions of dollars have been paid
Winter Olympics Open in Sochi 冬奥会在索契开幕 From VOA Learning English, this is In The News. Millions of sports lovers are thinking about just one thing right now -- the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Close to 2,900 men and women are set
By Scott Stearns Dakar 29 September 2009 Campaigning is under way in Niger for legislative elections that are being boycotted by the country's main opposition parties because President Mamadou Tandja has changed the constitution to extend his time i
Iraq Reels Under Intensifying Political Divide Rising anti-government protests, mostly by Sunnis, have rocked Iraq since December. Many Sunnis are calling for Shi'ite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to step down. They also want the release of detainee
Tumultuous Year Strains US Pakistani Relations Pakistan and the United States have maintained a critical strategic partnership for the past 10 years despite tense relations over the war in Afghanistan and U.S. suspicions that Islamabad maintains ties
Tiger Woods makes a statement at the Sawgrass Players Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., 19 Feb 2010 Golf pro Tiger Woods ended nearly three months of silence Friday to speak publicly for the first time about the marital infidelities that led to his pu
Iraqi leaders have welcomed a tentative deal on a unity government that could end an eight-month political stalemate. A major hurdle appears overcome by including the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc, but the potentially contentious division of cabinet post
Egypt's al-Ghad or Tomorrow Party has announced a boycott of the upcoming parliamentary election. Al-Ghad's leader, former presidential candidate Ayman Nour, is calling the November elections rigged, echoing earlier calls for boycott by opposition fi
Today on CNN student news, its a shutdownshowdown. President Obama and Democrats versus Republicans on issues of U.S.government spending. Today, we're looking at this by the numbers. We are eightdays into this partial government shutdown. It started
By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 02 November 2009 Ethiopia's ruling party and three opposition groups have agreed on a Code of Conduct for parliamentary elections scheduled for next May. Other opposition parties that boycotted the Code of Conduct talks
Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham has condemned the deadly terrorist attack on an Iranian diplomat in Yemen on Saturday. Afkham said a terrorist group attacked an Iranian embassy's diplomat in a Sanaa street and tried to kidnap him,
Polls have closed in Thailand in a general election that was boycotted by the opposition and disrupted by protests. Anti-government activists forced some polling stations in Bangkok and the south to close, but voting elsewhere across the country went