By Challiss McDonough Cairo 30 December 2007 The president of France says he will have no further contact with Syria until he is convinced that Syria is really trying to resolve the political crisis in neighboring Lebanon. He spoke on a visit to Egyp

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Poll Watchers Hope to Cut Fraud in Russia Vote Row upon row of Russians take lecture notes in a university classroom on a Saturday afternoon. They are not poor students. They are just 50 faces from an army of 200,000 Russians volunteering to work as

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Pigeons. Ever since humans established permanent agricultural settlements, weve lived side-by-side with the birdsor, as some people call them, rats with wings. They walk on our sidewalks, roost on our buildings, and eat our leftovers. But soon pigeon

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 07 March 2006 These are dark days for poultry eaters in France, land of foie gras, coq au vin, and other gastronomic delights. Sales of chickens and other fowl began tumbling well

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By Michael Bowman Washington 06 September 2007 Technology aficionados who rushed out to buy Apple's much-hyped iPhone since its debut less than three months ago are expressing buyer's remorse now that Apple has slashed the product's price by one-thir

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By Carolyn Weaver New York City 04 February 2008 The Federal Reserve Board cut short-term interest rates twice in January, most recently to three percent. The cuts are meant to encourage consumers by making credit more available, and to rally plungin

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By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 01 August 2007 Gazprom, Russia's state-owned gas monopoly, has announced a 45 percent reduction of natural gas supplies to neighboring Belarus. About 20 percent of the gas Russia delivers to other European countries transits

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By Paul Sisco Washington 24 March 2008 US airlines, facing sharply higher fuel prices this year, have announced a series of cutbacks in service and staffing, in order to reduce costs. One of the country's largest carriers, Delta Airlines, is offering

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By Scott Stearns White House 22 February 2007 U.S. President George Bush wants to cut America's dependence on foreign oil by increasing the domestic production of alternative fuels. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns has the story. President

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By Douglas Bakshian Manila 24 April 2006 In the Philippines prosecutors have filed rebellion charges against dozens of people, including a former senator and six left-wing lawmakers, accusing them of

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization says it plans to withdraw about a third of its force in Kosovo by next year because the security situation has improved. The announcement came during a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels. U.S. Secret

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Executives of major U.S. banks faced tough questions Wednesday from U.S. lawmakers frustrated by the slow pace of lending by institutions that received federal bail out money. Lawmakers also vented their anger over high salaries and bonuses in the f

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Once more the governor of the Reserve Bank, Alan Bollard, has cut the official cash rate, but this time by a large amount: 1.5%. This brings the official cash rate now to 5%, the lowest in a long time. This is the rate that banks pay to borrow overni

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By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 16 May 2007 The U.S. Senate has rejected a measure that would end funding for U.S. combat operations in Iraq by April1 of next year. The White House praised the vote, but some Senate Democrats say support is building for

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imposed pay limits on executives of banks and other companies that receive government bailout money to avoid collapse. President Barack Obama listens to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner as he delivers remarks about executive compensation, 04 Feb

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 07 February 2008 India is sticking its position that it cannot make any binding commitments on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Anjana Pasricha reports on an international conference on sustainable development being hel

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By Daniel Schearf Irbil 29 February 2008 Iraqi officials say the government has approved the death sentence for Chemical Ali, a cousin of Saddam Hussein, who is widely known for his role in poison gas attacks on the Kurds. As Daniel Schearf reports f

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By Ron Corben Bangkok 21 June 2007 Thai public prosecutors have formally charged former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra with corruption in the first formal legal action against him to reach court since he was ousted last year by a military coup. Ro

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By Peter Heinlein United Nations 07 June 2007 The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is asking the U.N. Security Council to pressure Sudan to hand over two Darfur war crimes suspects for trial. From U.N. headquarters, VOA's Peter Heinlein

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By Mil Arcega Washington, DC 16 January 2007 watch Iraq report An Iraqi army Humvee blocks a street in central Baghdad, Iraq The threat of new violence in Iraq increased this week following the execution of two former top aides to Saddam Hussein. The

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