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By Stephanie Ho Washington 23 July 2006 Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora says Israeli bombing of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon is forcing his country to its knees. In a television interview, the Lebanese leader said the first crucial step toward
By Steve Herman Tokyo 30 November 2006 Japan's Defense Agency is about to be upgraded to a full-fledged ministry. VOA's Steve Herman reports from Tokyo on the significance of the move. A Japan Ground Self-Defense Force tank during a drill at a range
By Noel King Khartoum 22 October 2006 Jan Pronk The Sudanese government is expelling a top United Nations envoy from Sudan, the foreign ministry said on Sunday. The expulsion comes in the wake of comments U.N. envoy Jan Pronk made on his Web site in
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 27 October 2006 Africa's Sahel region, stretching from Senegal to Ethiopia, along the southern edge of the Sahara, has been called the meningitis belt. More than half the world's cases of the disease occur there. Researchers i
By Challiss McDonough Tyre, Lebanon 25 July 2006 The U.S. secretary of state said she is deeply concerned about the plight of the Lebanese people and about the humanitarian situation in Lebanon after more than a week and a half of Israeli air strike
By Catherine Maddux Washington 26 July 2006 The vice president of Sudan's post-war unity government, Salva Kiir Mayardit, who is also president of southern Sudan's regional government, has taken on a new role, using his position to help put an end t
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 18 August 2006 Lebanese army troops took up positions along Israel's border on Friday as part of the U.N.- mediated ceasefire in Lebanon. The development comes as violence flared in the Palestinian territories. -------- Leban
By Robert Raffaele Washington, D.C. 18 August 2006 watch UNIFIL report Lebanese soldiers reached the country's southern border Friday, taking up positions in villages battered during the war between Israel and Hezbollah. This comes as the United Nat
By Margaret Besheer Beirut 30 May 2007 The U.N. Security Council resolution establishing an international court to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was welcomed by supporters of the former prime mi
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 21 June 2006 Sudan's president has again said he will never allow a U.N. peacekeeping force into the volatile western region of Darfur. U.S. officials say they will continue to press for a U.N. force, but analysts say the S
Terrorism Fears Prompt Call for Restrictions on Publishing Virus Research 美国政府要求两期刊不公开H5N1病毒研究细节 The U.S. government has asked two scientific journals not to publish key details of a federally-funded experiment tha
The United Nation's chief humanitarian official says efforts to fill the gaps left by the 13 international aid groups kicked out of Sudan are insufficient and that the upcoming rainy season could further complicate an already serious humanitarian si
Medical experts in Miami are hoping to speed up research using embryonic stem cells. Their work may lead to advances in treatment for spinal cord injuries, Alzheimer's disease and other illnesses. President Barack Obama signs an Executive Order on s
NewResearch,FundsRaiseHopesforAlzheimer'sCure Dr. Ron Petersen, a neurologist and pioneer in Alzheimer's research, was among the first to diagnose the disease in perhaps its most famous victim: former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. After a decade-long
The Japanese military worked furiously on Thursday to cool dangerouly overheated fuel rods at the severely damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, stepping up their efforts to avert a nuclear disaster. Efforts are also underway to restore electricity
US Presidential Libraries Contribute to Research, Education President Lyndon Baines Johnson, or LBJ, died in 1973. But a life-like animatronic representation of him greets visitors to his library in Austin, Texas. Visitors find it entertaining. Prett
By Steve Herman New Delhi 06 February 2007 Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam, center, then Bhutanese King Jigme Singye Wangchuk, right, as then Crown Prince Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck looks on, in New Delhi (File photo - 26 July 2006) The new lea
By Jessica Berman Washington 08 May 2006 Scientists report they have cured a highly malignant form of cancer in ordinary laboratory mice using the white blood cells of mice that are resistant to cance
By Ernest Leong Washington, DC 10 August 2006 watch Music Relief from Pain There's an old saying, music hath charms to soothe the savage breast. A new study has revealed that soothing musical notes are also an effective medicine. Marion Good plays p
By Ron Corben Bangkok 09 October 2006 Burma's government is about to restart its on-again, off-again constitutional convention, which it says will eventually lead to democratic elections. But even as it prepares for the convention, the regime has ar