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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 15 August 2006 watch Truce report Israeli army commanders say that starting Wednesday, they will begin moving some troops back from positions they have captured in Lebanon in the past month of fighting Hezbollah. The U.N.-med
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 26 January 2007 A mortar attack and shootings are the latest violence to hit the Somali capital, which is struggling to regain stability after Ethiopian-backed government forces ousted Islamists who controlled the capital fo
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 03 December 2006 Israel has decided not to extend the week-old ceasefire in the Gaza Strip to the West Bank, citing security reasons. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, the decision coincided with a dead
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
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 03 December 2006 Madagascar President Marc Ravalomanana casts his ballot in Antananarivo, 3 Dec 2006 In Madagascar Sunday, voters were choosing a president in what observers say was a mostly peaceful process. Many analysts
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 26 February 2007 A major Israeli raid in the West Bank town of Nablus is in its second day. One armed Palestinian has been killed. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, Israel describes the operation as a co
By Franz Wild Kinshasa 26 November 2006 Die, 18, who has been in the streets for the past five years, exhales smoke from a marijuana joint, 6 Aug 2006 Human rights groups are protesting what they say is the eviction of street youths from Democratic
By Margaret Besheer Beirut 29 May 2007 Sporadic gunfire during the day between Lebanese soldiers and Islamic militants in a Palestinian refugee camp ended in heavy clashes just before sunset near the northern port city of Tripoli. From the Lebanese c
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Dili 25 June 2007 A girl holds up an electoral poster featuring a picture of former President Xanana Gusmao in Dili, 25 June 2007 The head of the United Nations mission in East Timor says the nation's relatively peaceful parli
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 01 March 2007 Villagers in Senegal's volatile Casamance region are fleeing renewed fighting between rebels and government forces. Naomi Schwarz has more from VOA's regional bureau in Dakar. Fighting in the north of Senegal's t
Protesters staged a mass rally in Kashmir's summer capital, Srinagar, Friday to call for an end to India's rule of the disputed Himalayan region. Raymond Thibodeaux reports for VOA from Srinagar. A pro-independence rally in Srinagar, the summer capi
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 23 May 2008 South Africa deployed soldiers to parts of Johannesburg Thursday, to help end a wave of violence against foreigners that has killed 42 people. Officials emphasize soldiers will only be used to help police quell
Israel aircraft have bombed a Palestinian target in Gaza, following Palestinian militant rocket attacks on Israel on Sunday. The Hamas militant group that runs Gaza says Israeli aircraft hit a Palestinian police position. On Sunday, Palestinian mili
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Dili, East Timor 07 April 2007 An East Timorese boy plays with a dog at a refugee camp on the grounds of a church in Dili, 07 Apr 2007 Nearly 40,000 people are living in makeshift refugee camps in East Timor, afraid to return
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 04 July 2007 Pakistani students run out of a government office after setting on fire after a clash with police outside the Red Mosque in Islamabad, 03 Jul 2007 A standoff between Pakistani troops and students at a radical m
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 18 December 2006 British PM Tony Blair, left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, walk past an honor guard before a meeting in Ramallah, 18 Dec 2006 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he is pressing on wi
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 20 June 2007 The South African government has made what it says is a final offer to end a 20-day old strike by civil servants. Both sides agreed to disregard a Wednesday deadline, and postponed until Friday further talks ai