The United Nations Human Rights Office expresses great concern about the deteriorating human rights situation in Bahrain. It says it is receiving reports of more people who have gone missing, been killed and subjected to intimidation and harassment.

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This week marks the sixth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that deposed Saddam Hussein and established a fledgling democracy, but also unleashed political, ethnic and sectarian tensions that caused years of devastating violence. As the a

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By Katy Migiro Nairobi 02 May 2007 Ethiopia tops a list of countries where press freedom has deteriorated over the last five years, the Committee to Protect Journalists reports. The U.S.-based media advocacy group says the Ethiopian government has ja

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By Peter Fedynsky Washington, D.C. 04 September 2006 watch Baghdad report A new Pentagon report says violence in Iraq has reached the point where conditions exist for a civil war. The Pentagon's quarterly report to the U.S. Congress cites the rising

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By Al Pessin Washington 03 January 2006 The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East says he wants to accelerate the handover of security responsibility in Iraq to the country's new security forces

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By Katy Migiro Nairobi 06 June 2007 The Somali government has closed down three main FM stations in the capital, Mogadishu. Katy Migiro reports for VOA that the media clampdown follows a surprise visit by the Ethiopian Prime Minister aimed at shoring

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 01 May 2006 Israeli interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, April 30, 2006 Israeli Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has formed

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By Nico Colombant Abidjan 18 February 2006 Extra security forces have been deployed in parts of Nigeria after deadly rioting over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad spread to sub-Saharan Africa. Police

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 07 May 2006 Maroufa, 4, receives polio vaccination in Kabul The World Health Organization is conducting a massive polio immunization campaign along the dangerous Afghan-Pakistan

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By Zulima Palacio Washington, DC 08 June 2006 watch Immigration Overstays Much of the discussion about illegal immigration control in the United States has centered on border enforcement and building fences along the border with Mexico. New analysis

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study suggests that the more teenagers watch television, the more likely they are to develop depression as young adults. But the extent to which TV may or may not be to blame is a question that th

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India's Youth Keep Spotlight on Violence Against Women Nearly a hundred strangers from all over the city have come together here with one message: Wake up New Delhi and rise up against violence, chant the protesters. This flash mob is just one of man

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By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 12 May 2007 At least 27 people have been killed in clashes between pro- and anti-government activists in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi. VOA correspondent Benjamin Sand reports from Islamabad the widespread violence repre

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 14 January 2006 An unidentified woman looks out from a window at the Hadassah hospital where ailing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is being treated in Jerusalem Israeli

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By Stephanie Ho Washington 08 June 2006 U.S. officials have told Congress U.S. reconstruction efforts in Iraq are being significantly, and expensively, hampered by security concerns. This was among the issues raised as lawmakers grilled administrati

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By Peter Fedynsky Washington, D.C. 06 December 2006 watch Bipartisan report The bipartisan Iraq Study Group has issued its long-awaited series of strategic recommendations on ways to stabilize the situation in Iraq. As VOA's Peter Fedynsky reports,

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 09 March 2008 France's left made gains in the first round of local elections Sunday marked by a relatively high turnout. Lisa Bryant has more on the preliminary results from Paris. Initial results by the CSA-Dexia polling agencie

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By David Gollust Washington 19 May 2006 Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal (left) with Condoleezza Rice Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Thursday warned that the creation of rival Palest

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By Peter Heinlein United Nations 11 November 2006 The United States has used its Security Council veto to block a U.N. draft resolution condemning a deadly Israeli attack in the Gaza Strip. Sponsors of the resolution are planning to take the matter

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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 15 May 2007 Factional fighting in the Gaza Strip has killed 16 people, including eight in one incident when Hamas and Fatah gunmen clashed near a border crossing with Israel. More than 20 Palestinians have died in several days

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