By Al Pessin Washington 24 February 2006 There has been renewed controversy during the past week about conditions at the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay. A panel of United Nations exp

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 27 June 2006 Palestinian representatives of the main political factions attend a press conference in Gaza City, Tuesday, June 27, 2006 Rival Palestinian factions have agreed on a document implicitly recognizing Israel. Isr

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Sudan is trying to rally diplomatic support for rejecting war crimes charges against President Omar al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court. As Derek Kilner reports from VOA's East Africa bureau in Nairobi, Sudanese officials presented their o

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By Ayaz Gul Islamabad 19 June 2008 Top officials in Afghanistan say local and NATO-led forces have driven Taliban militants from a troubled southern district, one day after a joint anti-insurgent offensive was launched. But NATO officials say they c

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South African officials have assured the public that extensive security measures have been put in place to provide security during the football (soccer) Confederations Cup which kicks off on Sunday. Police officers and citizens cross a street in fro

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US Officials Back Indonesian Stand Against Papua Independence Analysts say U.S. support for Indonesia's strong stand against Papuan separatists puts added pressure on the independence movement to seek a negotiated settlement. But there are concerns t

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The U.S. energy secretary says global warming is proceeding more quickly than originally predicted. Stephen Chu is in China, the world's top emitter of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, to urge greater Sino-American cooperation to comb

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By Al Pessin Brussels 08 June 2006 Afghanistan's defense minister and the chief of NATO expressed confidence that alliance forces will be effective at taking responsibility for security in most of the country, in spite of the recent increase in atta

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By Challiss McDonough Cairo 30 October 2007 The leader of Lebanon's anti-Syrian ruling coalition says he has information about a plot to kill him. He and other anti-Syrian politicians have been living under tight security for several years amid a str

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By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 16 June 2007 A senior U.S. official in Pakistan provided the strongest indication yet that Washington will stand by embattled Pakistan leader Pervez Musharraf. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, in Pakistan for

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By Paula Wolfson Washington 13 June 2007 Congressional committees have taken legal steps to compel two former White House aides to testify in public about the controversial firing of eight federal prosecutors. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports it is the la

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Iraq's political leaders struck a hopeful tone as they marked five years since the killing of prominent Shi'ite cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim and dozens of others in a car bombing in the holy city of Najaf in 2003. VOA's Suzanne Presto re

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By Al Pessin Washington 10 April 2007 The former coalition commander in Iraq, General George Casey, took over as U.S. Army Chief of Staff at a ceremony rich in tradition Tuesday, during which he predicted that the fight against terrorism will continu

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By Kurt Achin Seoul 12 December 2006 On a visit to South Korea, U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez says he is confident that Washington and Seoul can conclude a deal to liberalize trade with each other - but warns the negotiations must speed u

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 15 May 2006 The United Nations' top emergency relief coordinator says he is optimistic the agreement to end the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region can work. But he warns of serio

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Residents in Mogadishu, Somalia say they fear the apparent murder of the director of the U.N. Development Program there may cause aid groups to further scale down their operations and deepen the country's humanitarian crisis. As VOA Correspondent Al

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By Margaret Besheer Washington 07 October 2006 A senior U.S. official says work on a new U.N. Security Council resolution to sanction Iran for refusing to suspend its nuclear enrichment activities will begin in a few days. ---- U.S. Under Secretary

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 14 February 2007 U.S. defense and military officials have told Congress Pakistan needs to do more to eliminate Taleban insurgents along the border with Afghanistan. Their testimony on Capitol Hill Tuesday follows recent t

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By Michael Bowman White House 12 May 2006 President Bush with former Secretaries of State and former Secretaries of Defense President Bush says he has

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 16 November 2006 Nigeria's National Population Commission is set to announce results of last March's national census next month. Censuses are controversial in Nigeria and the expected announcement comes at a politically sen

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