By Jordan Davis Dakar 21 December 2006 Senegalese army officials say two soldiers were shot to death in an ambush in the southern Casamance region. For more than two decades, the area has seen sporadic violence involving separatist rebels and the na

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By Kurt Achin Kaesong, North Korea 28 February 2006 North and South Korea gave the international media their first up close look at a joint industrial complex - hailed as the economic future of the di

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By Challiss McDonough Cairo 21 February 2006 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (l) and Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit during a press conference in Cairo, Egypt Tuesday, Feb. 21, 200

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By Patricia Nunan Kathmandu 22 April 2006 Riot policemen stand guard as pro-democracy protesters shout slogans, within a mile from the royal Narayanhiti Palace in Kathmandu Nepalese police fired tear

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By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 23 January 2007 Journalists, politicians and observers in Senegal are expressing surprise at the announcement that popular opposition figure, former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck, is rejoining the camp of President Abdoulaye Wad

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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she hopes Saturday's critical meeting with Iran's nuclear negotiator in Geneva will mark a change of course for Tehran in its nuclear dispute with the international community. Rice is sending a senior envoy t

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Experts Cite Underlying Causes for UK Riots London was largely calm Wednesday, but the rioting that engulfed the British capital for the past four nights has spread to other cities, including Manchester and Birmingham. British Prime Minister David Ca

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By Phuong Tran Katote, Senegal 13 March 2007 In parts of rural Africa, some parents force their daughters to marry as young as eight-years-old. This is so there is no chance the girls can get pregnant before marriage, and ruin the families' honor. O

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By Kent Klein White House 30 September 2009 President Obama makes remarks about stimulus funding for biomedical research, 30 Sep 2009, at National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. U.S. President Barack Obama is announcing $5 billion in new gove

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By Carol Pearson Washington, DC 19 January 2006 watch Dementia Exercise report Experts estimate that more than 24 million people worldwide suffer from dementia, a loss of mental functions including me

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By Ayaz Gul Islamabad 28 December 2007 Hundredsof thousands of mourners gathered to at the family graveyard where former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was being laid to rest. Authorities in Pakistan have beefed up security around the country as suppo

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By Barry Wood Washington 09 May 2008 Home sales remain weak in the United States, a development some economists say will prolong the slowdown in economic growth that began last October. VOA's Barry Wood has more. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said

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Three European scientists who discovered the viruses behind AIDS and cervical cancer shared this year's Nobel prize for medicine. Lisa Bryant has more on the prestigious award for VOA from Paris. French scientists Luc Montagnier (file photo) The Nob

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By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 14 April 2006 Nepal's opposition parties have rejected a call by King Gyanendra to hold talks, because, they say, he must first restore democratic freedoms. The king made h

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 02 April 2007 Israel is observing the biblical holiday of Passover under tight security. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, the holiday brings ancient traditions together with the complex realities of a m

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 12 April 2006 Israelis are celebrating the weeklong biblical holiday of Passover under tight security. Ultra-Orthodox Jews, some in prayer, gather around a fire as they burn

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By Selah Hennessy Dakar 11 June 2007 Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene is being buried in Dakar as praise is being showered from across the world on his career. Selah Hennessy reports from Dakar his death at the age of 84 also leaves a void, revea

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By Phuong Tran Dakar 12 February 2007 Africa's porous borders and location have made it an attractive destination for drug traffickers. Health and government officials worry how this trend affects the growing rate of HIV infection on the continent.

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International aid agencies are expressing concern about the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, noting that problems have spread to previously stable areas and attacks on aid agencies and their staff are on the increase. Tendai Maphosa

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U.S. officials say President Barack Obama will press Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari this week to continue a military drive against Taliban insurgents to prevent a situation in which extremists might threaten that country's stability and nuclea

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