By Maura Jane Farrelly New York 31 March 2006 Bill Clinton Former President Bill Clinton says the Global Initiative he launched last year has resulted in aid pledges totaling $2.5 billion and commitme

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Uganda is now home to the largest refugee camp in the world. So what does that tell us? It's actually a sign that the situation in neighboring South Sudan is getting worse. Here's NPR's Eyder Peralta. EYDER PERALTA, BYLINE: Back i

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I have now worked in seven states across India, and weve looked at human-wildlife interactions, particularly human-wildlife conflict ranging from crop loss, livestock predation, human death, human injury and property damage. Krithi Karanth, a Wildlif

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By Steve Schy Turin 12 February 2006 American figure skater Michelle Kwan's quest for an Olympic gold medal has come to an end. An injury forced the 25-year-old Californian to pull out of the Turin Ga

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By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 20 September 2007 Estonia has refused permission for a geological survey in its territorial waters for a proposed gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea. But VOA Moscow correspondent Peter Fedynsky says the Russian-German project

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By David Gollust State Department 27 July 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to decide Friday whether to pay a return trip to the Middle East to try to help broker a durable cease-fire in the Lebanon conflict. The Secretary has been consult

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 25 January 2007 Representatives from southern Sudan have appeared before a U.S. congressional committee on Capitol Hill to detail what they say are deliberate efforts by the National Congress Party government in Khartoum

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The United Nations is giving food vouchers to poor families in Burkina Faso who have access to private sector markets, but can not afford higher food prices there. The innovative program is alsp helping local shopkeepers. This is the first time the

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By Edward Yeranian Cairo 24 October 2009 IAEA inspectors check in at Vienna's International Airport on their way to Iran, 24 Oct 2009 A team of U.N. inspectors is heading to Iran to visit a recently revealed nuclear site. International Atomic Energy

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ELISE HU, HOST: Tomorrow, a California judge could decide if Gloria Single will be reunited with her husband, Bill. She's 83. He's 93. The two lived in the same nursing home until last March. That's when Gloria Single was evicted without warning. NPR

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As Military Moving Costs Rise, It's Difficult For Officials To Keep Track play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0004:46repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update y

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now for an improbable love story. Now, here you might be thinking, aren't the bookshelves groaning with those? But here's a love story that did not just change two people's lives. It shed light on inequalities that our next guest

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In theory telephone triage was a good idea, in practice at times it was anything but. -Realistically on the weekends we still are unsafe, we don't have the staff to deal with the calls that are coming in. This investigation by two undercover reporter

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 05 July 2007 Many consumers are concerned about the environment, and environmental organizations are helping them make choices about how to spend their money. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan spoke with the president and chief exe

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By Dan Robinson Washington 10 April 2008 Lawmakers have pressed the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker, about the duration of the U.S. military presence in Iraq, and political progress by the

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By Al Pessin Baghdad 11 February 2008 During a visit to Baghdad Monday, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates endorsed his Iraq commander's proposal for a pause in the U.S. troop drawdown after the last of the surge troops go home in July. VOA's Al Pes

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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to long-time peace advocate and former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was among those welcoming the news. From United Nation's headquarters in New York, VOA's Margaret

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By Michael Bowman Washington 09 May 2007 Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he does not expect a swift pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq regardless of the conclusions of a planned September evaluation of the ongoing build-up of U.S. forces in the cou

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It also revealed that 28 percent had choked on crumbs, while one in ten had broken a tooth or filling biting a biscuit. More unusually, three percent had poked themselves in the eye with a biscuit and seven percent bitten by a pet or other wild anima

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By Selah Hennessy London 09 October 2009 United Nations climate change negotiations end Friday in Bangkok, but a Britain-based environmental group says the two-week talks have failed to deliver progress. The International Institute for Environment a

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