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By Phil Mercer Sydney 23 October 2009 An Australian man accused of killing a Jewish youth in Hungary during the Second World War is in jail, awaiting possible extradition. Charles Zentai denies the murder accusations and has been fighting extraditio
War On Terror Focuses Too Much on Extremists, Scholar Says French troops fighting al-Qaida-affiliated terrorists in Mali have helped restore order to areas overrun by an ethnic Tuareg rebellion. But local leaders, like Moussa Ag Oumeytta, say solving
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: U.S. forces are playing a bigger and more direct role in the fighting in Syria. This week they have increased air strikes around the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa. American special operations troops have rappelled out of helicopters a
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The USS Carl Vinson is in De Nang, Vietnam. And it is the first U.S. aircraft carrier visit since the end of the Vietnam War. And it comes at a time of increasing tension between the U.S. and China and between China and some of i
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Last week's special congressional election in Montana got national attention for more than the issues. A journalist has called for police to investigate Republican Greg Gianforte for assaulting him, an encounter captured in a rec
Civil War Battlefield 'Limb Pit' Reveals Work Of Combat Surgeons DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. At a Civil War battlefield in Virginia, scientists have unearthed a pit of human bones. These are the amputated limbs of wounded soldiers. NPR's Christoph
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Syria's president, Bashar Assad, and his regime seem poised to stay in power as they retake more and more of the country after seven years of bloody civil war. This will make it hard to hold the regime or its commanders accountabl
Foreign delegates to the annual China Development Forum have agreed that a trade war would benefit no one, and that it would be harmful to both countries and the world economy more broadly. At the Economic Summit of the 2018 China Development Forum,
Broadcast on Coast to Coast: April 3, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on Wordmaster -- it's time for our monthly visit with English teacher Lida Baker. She writes textbooks and she teaches in the American Language Center at the University of C
All aboard! one of the rowers called. Jack and Annie hurried down the steep riverbank. They climbed back into the boat. The crew pushed away from the shore. The boatstarted back through the icy, churning waters of theDelaware River. Jack was freezing
The wagon jerked and swayed as it bumped over the dryground. Jack felt as though he were frying pan the hot sunlight. Dustfrom the road filled his throat and eyes. The boom of cannons grew louder and louder. Jack heardpopping sounds, too, like the no
Jack still didn't remember who Clara Barton was. He pulledout the Civil War book and read: Clara Barton was a famous Civil War nurse. When she begannursing, she used her own money for her supplies. She drove ahorse-drawn ambulance right onto the batt
By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 17 July 2006 watch Casualities report Lebanon's peace has been shattered, warplanes have bombed the Gaza strip, and rockets are falling from the sky over Israel. VOA's Peter Fedynsky reports on the plight of people o
By Lauren Comiteau The Hague 07 November 2007 The trial of Serb-Nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj has opened at the U.N. war crimes Tribunal in The Hague. He faces nine charges related to his use of hate speech and recruiting paramilitary groups, wh
By Brian Padden Washington, DC 18 December 2006 watch Civil War report There has been much talk about whether the level of sectarian violence in Iraq has risen to the point where it should be called a civil war. Why is it important to make such a di
By Scott Stearns Washington 16 August 2007 The Bush administration continues to defend the war in Iraq ahead of a report to Congress next month on progress there. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports that, two days after truck bombings
The Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker dominated the Oscars Sunday evening. The film about a bomb disposal unit earned six Academy Awards, including for best picture. The Hurt Locker also brought the first Oscar for directing for a woman, filmmaker Kathr
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 05 June 2007 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, smiles while heading up a meeting with PLO executive committee in Ramallah, 04 Jun 2007 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is warning that factional infighting has put Palesti
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Writer Omar El Akkad spent much of his career as a journalist covering the many revolutions and wars in the Middle East for Canada's Globe and Mail. His debut novel, though, is set in a United States that is riven by con
DAVID GREENE, HOST: A hundred years ago today, the United States entered World War I. Congress voted to declare war on Germany. By the time it ended, there had been a staggering death toll - more than 17 million people worldwide. The soldiers who did