By Jim Malone Washington 30 November 2006 Iowa's Democratic governor, Tom Vilsack, officially became the first presidential candidate for 2008 on Thursday. Several other potential candidates have either taken themselves out of the running for the Wh

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THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: Kennedy Becomes President STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. (MUSIC) We begin this week's story on January twentieth, nineteen sixty-one,

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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

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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

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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

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President Bush has met for the first time with Pakistan's new president, Asif Ali Zardari. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from the White House the meeting came just days after a terrorist attack on an Islamabad hotel that claimed dozens of lives. Presi

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By Challiss McDonough Beirut 25 May 2008 Former Lebanese army chief Michel Suleiman was sworn in as the country's new President Sunday, following a long-delayed vote in parliament. His election brings an end to the political crisis that has paralyzed

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Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission is asking voters and the media to ignore claims by competing camps that their candidates captured a first-run victory in the presidential election. Meanwhile, a prominent U.S.-government funded institute

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Kerry Set to Be Democratic Presidential Nominee Meredith Buel U.S. Senator John Kerry has all but clinched the Democratic nomination for president, and his main rival, Senator John Edwards, is expecte

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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

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 11 April 2008 U.N. Human Rights Chief, Louise Arbour, says she is pleased former Chadian president Hissene Habre will finally face justice for human rights violations committed during his eight-year rule. She says the latest ch

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By Kurt Achin Seoul 25 February 2008 The former Seoul mayor who swept December elections in South Korea is getting used to his new title: Mr. President. Lee Myung-bak has taken his oath of office in a formal ceremony in the South Korean capital. VOA

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By Jim Malone Washington 06 September 2007 Former Senator Fred Thompson has made it official. Thompson is now one of nine contenders seeking the Republican Party's presidential nomination next year. VOA National correspondent Jim Malone reports from

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By Kari Barber Dakar 19 March 2007 Mauritanian presidential candidate Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdellahi casts his vote in Nouakchott, 11 March 2007 The third-place finisher in Mauritania's first round of presidential polls, Zeine Ould Zeidane, has thrown in

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By Paula Wolfson Pittsburgh 22 April 2008 Voters in the state of Pennsylvania are going to the polls to show their preference for who should win the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from Pittsburgh that there is

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By Jim Malone Washington 20 February 2008 In the U.S. presidential race, Barack Obama has now won10 straight contests in his battle with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Meanwhile, John McCain moved another step clo

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Norway's Nobel committee tapped former Finnish president and peace advocate Martti Ahtisaari as this year's peace laureate. Lisa Bryant has more on the 71-year-old politician - and his distinguished career. Martii Ahtisaari Norway's Nobel committee

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By Margaret Besheer United Nations 02 April 2008 The U.N. Security Council will hold a high-level meeting with African leaders later this month in New York to discuss continuing conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa. From U.N. headquarters in New York, VOA

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U.S. President George Bush says the United Nations should keep working with the Sudanese government to get more African Union peacekeepers into the troubled Darfur region, despite Monday's arrest warrant for Sudan's president from the International

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Prayers and masses are being held across the Philippines for the recovery of cancer-stricken former President Corazon Aquino. The democracy icon is battling colon cancer. Devotees, supporters of former Philippine President Corazon 'Cory' Aquino atte

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