Peace Corps Volunteer Returns to Help Sierra Leone School On the 50th anniversary of the creation of the U.S. Peace Corps, some former volunteers are returning to the countries where they served as teachers, health care workers or agricultural adviso

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A bulldozer digs at the Revava Jewish settlement Monday in the northern West Bank. It is a scene that stokes anger among Palestinians and raises questions about whether the talks that started less than a month ago will continue. Palestinian President

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August 15 marks the fourth anniversary of peace in Aceh province in Indonesia. The tsunami that decimated the region in 2004, killing nearly 170,000 people, and the immense international relief effort that followed helped end a 30-year separatist wa

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Women Play Increasingly Vital Role in Peace Missions Captain Annie - French soldiers dont use their last names - is examining Gomo, a working security dog from France who lives at a base of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. The captain is

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By Kane Farabaugh New York City 07 March 2007 watch Ethiopian President Hopeful Ethiopian President Girma Woldegiorgis In the wake of Ethiopia's military action in Somalia to remove Islamist forces from Mogadishu, Ethiopian President Girma Woldegiorg

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情景对话: Gordon: So let me get this correct. You want to make T-shirts for your business with no business connection. Okay. This is your journey, but it might end here. Max: No, no, no, see, it's a cupcake, and we sell cupcakes, so that's the

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 19 June 2006 Leader of Burundian rebel NLF group Agathon Rwasa, right, and Burundi's Minister for the Interior and Public Security Brig. Erneste Ndayishimye, left, sign an agreement in Dar Es Salaam, June 18, 2006 The gover

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By Phuong Tran Dakar 17 August 2007 United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is urging the U.N. Security Council to approve a new peacekeeping force for the volatile border region between Chad and Central African Republic. The newly revised propo

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By Derek Kilner Nairobi 21 December 2007 Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has said the leader of the rebel Lords Resistance Army is not ready for a peace agreement. As Derek Kilner reports for VOA's East Africa bureau in Nairobi, Museveni has threat

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By Meredith Buel Washington 18 September 2007 Former South Korean President Kim says he believes the efforts to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program will be successful and diplomatic ties will eventually be established between

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Expectations Low for Mideast Peace Talks The latest effort to inject life into the long-stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians is expected to resume Wednesday. Senior Israeli and Palestinian negotiators - along with United States med

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By Kari Barber Port Harcourt 12 June 2007 As kidnappings of foreign oil workers and attacks on oil facilities in Nigeria's Niger Delta continue to escalate this year, one former militant fighter has taken the risky step of denouncing the violence an

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By Margaret Besheer Washington 20 October 2007 Young people took to the streets of nearly 100 cities in 15 countries on Saturday to raise awareness about the humanitarian suffering in northern Uganda, where two decades of conflict have taken a severe

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By Margaret Besheer United Nations 15 April 2008 Somalia's foreign minister says his government will ask the U.N. Security Council to send a multi-national force to his country to take over from African Union peacekeepers who are currently trying to

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By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 11 October 2007 A renegade Congolese general who shattered a U.N.-mediated ceasefire earlier this week has performed a hasty turnaround, demanding a halt to the violence that has killed dozens of his men. Nick Wadhams has the

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The governor of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province has confirmed that Pakistan's federal government signed a peace agreement with about 300 tribal leaders in North Waziristan in January. The agreement, which has not been officially acknowledged

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EU leaders honored by Nobel Peace Prize award: statement BRUSSELS, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- The award of this year's Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union (EU) was a tremendous honor and the strongest possible recognition of its efforts to shape a conti

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By Jeff Swicord Washington 03 November 2009 For decades, AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee) has been the pro-Israel lobby in the United States, bolstered by a massive membership -it says 100,000 - among America's six million Jews.

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 07 April 2008 Israeli and Palestinian leaders tried to advance the Middle East process during talks in Jerusalem Monday. We have more from Robert Berger at our VOA bureau in the Israeli capital. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud

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Tensions soared last week when Syria's President accused Israel of avoiding peace, foreign minister threatened that Israeli cities would be attacked in event of war Robert Berger | Jerusalem 07 February 2010 Benjamin Netanyahu Israel says it is exten

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