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By Stefan Bos Budapest 11 March 2007 A year of talks on the future of Kosovo has ended without agreement between Serbia's government and Kosovo's independence-seeking ethnic Albanian leadership. The U.N. mediator in the talks said he would present th
China says 3,000 Chinese tourists a day will be allowed to travel to Taiwan, a long-estranged island Beijing considers part of Chinese territory. The visits will be possible once the two sides implement regular, direct flights, weekend, next month.
Russia says all of its forces in Georgia will be withdrawn by late Friday into a 'buffer zone' around the separatist region of South Ossetia, where Georgian troops will no longer be allowed. Georgia, however, doubts Moscow's assurances, and says the
Georgians are reacting with a mixture of concern and fury at the Russia's decision to recognize the independence of two separatist territories within Georgia. VOA's Peter Heinlein in Tbilisi reports senior Georgian officials are urging the West to v
By Victoria Cavaliere New York 06 December 2007 International mediators are due to present a report to the United Nations Security Council next week on Kosovo's push for unilateral independence from Serbia. More than a dozen European nations and the
By Andre de Nesnera Washington 03 July 2007 The United States and Russia remain far apart on the issue of Kosovo. In this report from Washington, senior correspondent Andr de Nesnera looks at the conflicting views. President George W. Bush greets Rus
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Puerto Rico today is marking an important anniversary. It's been a century since President Woodrow Wilson signed a law granting citizenship to people born on the island, but it's a limited form of citizenship. It puts Puerto Rico
Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫沃尔多爱默生 The United States had won its independence from Britain just twenty-two years before Ralph Waldo Emerson was born. But it had yet to win its cultural independence. It still took its traditions from othe
So, Ben and Deber just decided to live as common long man and wife. With his personal life stabilized, Franklin jumped into the newspaper business. He buys the Pennsylvanian giz and becomes the founding father of another American tradition--- the sex
By Stefan Bos Budapest 22 February 2008 Serbian President Boris Tadic has called for an end to violence after rioters opposed to Kosovo's declaration of independence ransacked U.S. and other embassies in Belgrade, killing one person. The call comes a
By Robert Raffaele Washington 16 August 2007 New Jefferson $1 coin The face of one of their nation's founding fathers will soon stare back at Americans reaching for pocket change. The United States Mint has unveiled a new coin, honoring the American
By David Gollust Washington 22 December 2007 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday Serbia and Kosovo will never be part of the same country again, and all those concerned should work for a stable outcome in the Balkans based on that re
By Barbara Schoetzau New York 19 December 2007 The U.N. Security Council failed to break a deadlock over the future of the Serbian province of Kosovo Wednesday. From VOA's New York Bureau, correspondent Barbara Schoetzau reports the failure has raise
By Douglas Bakshian Manila 11 June 2006 Police investigators take a look at the damage caused by a suspected homemade bomb or a grenade as it exploded in a bus being used as a mobile police station in Manila's suburban Quezon city Philippine police
Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has made his first public remarks since political opponents announced their intention to impeach him. In a televised speech marking Pakistan's 61st independence anniversary, the president called for political re
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
By Stefan Bos Budapest 17 March 2008 Officials say three U.N. police officers and two NATO soldiers were wounded in an explosion in Kosovo as they stormed a courthouse occupied by Serb protesters who oppose the region's breakaway from Serbia. At leas
By Barry Wood Belgrade 04 February 2008 Incumbent president of Serbia Boris Tadic won Sunday's presidential election, defeating by a narrow margin a pro-Russian nationalist candidate. VOA's Barry Wood reports from Belgrade. Boris Tadic (l), 03 Feb 20
By Stefan Bos Budapest 20 February 2008 The European Union has begun setting up its 2,000-member police and judicial mission in Kosovo, to oversee the region's independence. But as Stefan Bos reports for VOA from Budapest, the operation will need su
On U.S. Independence Day, President Barack Obama is calling on Americans to remember the spirit of the nation's founders, and to embrace his domestic initiatives. Republican Senator John McCain, meanwhile, wants stronger U.S. language against Iran's