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LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: It's 1992. Your hair is gelled up, you're sporting high-tops, maybe still listening to Run-DMC on cassette, and that's the setting for a new coming-of-age novel that's also a look at race in America. The book, titled Green, follo
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By Greg Flakus Mexico City 30 November 2006 In Mexico, a standoff between rival parties continues in the lower house of the congress, which is to be the site of the presidential inauguration on Friday. Some Latin American leaders have canceled trips
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Lawmakers in Pakistan will elect a new president on September sixth. Officials set the date Friday. Presidents are elected by parliament and the assemblies of the four provinces. President Pervez Musharraf
Somalia Famine Spreads to New Areas The United Nations says three more areas of Somalia have now slipped into famine. The famine is expected to spread further unless there is immediate intervention. The U.N.'s food security analysis unit and a famine
By Alex Villarreal Washington, D.C. 21 December 2007 The Lebanese Parliament will make its next attempt to elect a new president on Saturday. The post has been vacant since late November, when the country's pro-Syrian president stepped down. As VOA's
By Daniel Schearf Islamabad 21 September 2007 Islamist political parties have added their voice to charges that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's bid for re-election is unconstitutional. The movement against Mr. Musharraf's candidacy was also jo
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Obama is back from his first trip to Asia since becoming what he called America's first Pacific president. The president, born in Hawaii, began his eight-day trip in Japan, then visited Singapore
The host for the first presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, the University of Mississippi, is attempting to showcase the campus that nearly half a century ago drew world attention for a violent racial conflict. VOA's Greg Flakus
America's top military officer, Admiral Michael Mullen, says the transition to a new U.S. administration could be a time of heightened threat for the United States. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who spoke in Los Angeles Monday, said the
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 22 January 2008 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he remains committed to peace talks, despite the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip and heavy fighting there between Hamas militants and Israeli forces. VOA's Jim Teeple
If you could take a vaccine that would protect you against cancer, wouldn't you take it? Well, for cervical cancer, there is a vaccine. It protects against a virus called HPV, which can lead to cancer of the cervix. But a new study reports that many
LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Tuesday is Tax Day, and we're going to zero in on those tax questions dealing with health insurance. Health care reporter Julie Rovner will help us out with that in a few minutes. First, this reminder of why health care factor
The widower of Pakistan's assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has won elections to become the country's next president. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad, where Asif Ali Zardari won an estimated 482 of the 702 votes from lawm
The opposition filed a new impeachment bid against Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo over alleged corruption, but analysts predict the bid will fail like three previous attempts. As VOA correspondent Nancy-Amelia Collins reports, the unpo
By Jim Malone Washington 26 October 2007 The war in Iraq, U.S. relations with Iran and the state of the economy are all expected to be major factors in next year's presidential campaign. In the fourth part of his series on the 2008 election, National
By Kurt Achin Seoul 16 December 2007 A former Seoul mayor who bills himself as a pro-business conservative is expected to become South Korea's next president by an overwhelming margin when voters go to the polls on Wednesday. As VOA's Kurt Achin repo
By Barry Wood Belgrade 17 January 2007 Serbia's parliamentary election campaign is nearing its end with latest opinion surveys indicating that reformist Democratic Party has taken a lead over the nationalist Radical Party. VOA's Barry Wood is in Bel
By Jessica Berman Washington 02 October 2009 Anthropologists from around the world have added another million or so years to the history of human evolution. Scientists say the latest fossil find - while not a direct ancestor of modern humans, may of
Yellow confetti rained from buildings, as tens of thousands of people lined the streets of the Philippine capital to bid farewell to former President Corazon Aquino. The scene was reminiscent of the Philippine democracy movement that she led in the