NPR 2008-03-27

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Speer. Iraq is facing its starkest security challenge this year as Shiite militiamen loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr battled Iraqi government forces in Basra, Baghdad and several other Iraqi cities

NPR 2009-07-29

Over nearly solid Republican opposition, the Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to approve Judge Sonia Sotomayor the first Hispanic nominee to the Supreme Court. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports. The vote was 13-6 with Senator Lindsey Graham, the only

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. On Thursday, the Bush administration reported mixed results in Iraq since the recent addition of thirty thousand American troops. The report is based on eighteen goals known as benchmarks. Congress establis

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NPR 2010-10-18

France's Interior Minister is saying today that Saudi intelligence services have warned of a new terror threat from Al-Qaeda. Brice Hortefeux told the talkshow the warning of a potential attack is focused on the European continent, notably France. Th

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Broadcast: Mar 28 2003 United Nations health officials are concerned about the outbreak of disease from poor water and 1) sanitation conditions in Iraq if the war 2) drags on. But so far, they say, co

CNN 2010-09-05

I'm Carl Azuz and this is CNN Student News, bringing the world to your classroom with 10 minutes of commercial-free headlines. And we're kicking things off today in the Middle East. March 19, 2003, President George W. Bush announced the start of the

CNN 2010-08-04

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BBC news. Canada says negotiations to reach a free trade deal with European Union had failed. The Canadian trade minister said it had become evident that the EU was not capable of reaching agreement. The EU says the process is not over. The French au

CNN 2008-04-15

Good afternoon, I'm Naamua Delaney at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. A Texas judge will begin trying to decide what to do with more than 400 kids taken from a polygamist compound. An attorney for Texas

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CNN 2008-02-03

Hi everyone, I'm Asieh Namdar at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Here is a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. In the central African nation of Chad, we are hearing hundreds of rebel fighters have closed in on the capital after clashing with govern

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BAGHDAD, July 5 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Thursday that members of al-Qaida militant group have crossed border to Syria to carry out terrorist attacks. Yes indeed, we have solid information and intelligence that members o

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ISTANBUL Growing tensions between Baghdad and the semiautonomous Iraqi Kurdish government over control of the country's energy reserves is threatening to pull neighboring Turkey into the deepening dispute. This past weekend, Iraq warned Ankara that s

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President Barack Obama announced on Friday that all U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of this year. The announcement came after months of negotiations with the Iraqi government on extending a U.S. troop presence there. In a video con

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