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Gold Lining for France's Economic Clouds Before another summit of European leaders, eurozone countries have been warned they may face a credit downgrade without a decisive agreement to save the euro. The debt crisis is casting a long shadow as France
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This is AP News Minute. 1. A bomb exploded at a popular shrine in central Bangkok during evening rush hour Monday. Police say the bomb was made of a pipe wrapped in cloth when it went off in a high-volume tourist and shopping area. Over a dozen were
By Stefan Bos Budapest 26 September 2009 Pope Benedict XVI and Czech cardinal Miloslav Vlk greet well-wishers as Pope visits 'Church of Our Lady Victorious' in Prague, 26 Sep 2009 Pope Benedict XVI began a three day visit to the Czech Republic with
What's it saying? It's saying that S like our God you have taken our India to a different level. The villagers are hoping tourists will stop by their new shrine and no doubt buy a few souvenirs. I was on the final leg of my journey, my route took me
-As we began to survey much larger areas of the landscape around Stonehenge, we began to see a number of other similar neolithic monuments which were hidden under. This monument Aims-41 just to the northeast of Stonehenge long thought to be a simple
Pope Benedict XVI arrived in France Friday on a four-day visit that will take him from the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris to the shrine in Lourdes. As Sabina Castelfranco reports for VOA from Paris, this is Benedict's first trip to France as po
By Kurt Achin Seoul 25 February 2008 New South Korean President Lee Myung-bak got straight to diplomacy on his first afternoon in office. As VOA Seoul Correspondent Kurt Achin reports, he promised the visiting U.S. Secretary of State he would improve
China has urged Japanese leaders to learn from post-war Germany in dealing with historical issues and wartime atrocities. Foreign Ministry spokeswomen Hua Chunying said Germany and Japans approaches have been vastly different. In particular, she poin
By Scott Stearns White House 11 August 2007 U.S. President George Bush Saturday hosted a social lunch for French President Nicholas Sarkozy at the Bush family home in Maine. VOA White House correspondent Scott Stearns reports, Mr. Bush said in his we
By Ravi Khanna Washington 02 January 2008 Days after opposition leader and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's funeral, and nationwide riots, some people are choosing peaceful ways to channel their anger and frustration. In cities across the count
We are now joined by Jia Xiudong, a senior research fellow at the China Institute of International Studies. Welcome. Q1: The visit to the controversial shrine is in sharp contrast to what Abe said he would do when he was elected prime minister last y
The Charge d'Affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Spain has criticized Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida for his comments defending Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine. Kishida said in an interview with Sp
Each clan had its own separate gods and totems to water and wind, fire and night. They were kept in the caravan town of Mecca, in a shrine of wood, stone and cloth. It was called, the Kaaba, the Arabic word for Cube. Pre-Islamic-Arabs worshiped a num
To the non-believers, the divine reckoning Muhammad invoked wasnt average. His dismantling of their heritage and customs deeply unset them. It was a threat, a threat in several ways, to their social order, to their age-old traditions, and an economic
By Nico Colombant Dakar 13 March 2008 Planned Chad-Sudan peace talks have faced more delays on the sidelines of the Islamic conference being held in Senegal. Host Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade promised a new deal, but instead so far his efforts
Japan is now dealing with the on-going fallout from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the war-linked Yasukuni shrine last month. With the US having already expressed its disappointment, Japanese diplomats are busy attempting to soothe ties with Wa