By Brian Padden Sestiere, Italy 16 February 2006 view Turin Tourism report Olympic Organizers estimate that a million people will visit Turin, Italy during the Winter Games. Sounds like good news for

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During Period of Accelerating Change By Barry Wood San Francisco, California 04 December 2006 watch High Tech Leadership Screenshot from hotzone.yahoo.com The Internet, as we know it, is only 15 years old (the World Wide Web invented in 1991), but a

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By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 02 August 2006 A new regional tsunami warning system in Southeast Asia can already detect dangerous conditions, but the network will not be completed for up to five years. The announcement comes just two weeks after a tsunam

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The Fourth of July fireworks started early. Scientists wearing red-and-blue shirts jumped up and down at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory here in California, upon receiving word from 83 million miles away that a comet had smashed into a NASA probe. The

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Hopes Dim for US Ratification of Global Maritime Treaty Law of the Sea Convention Maritime defense, shipping, and natural resources extraction are but a few of the endeavors covered by the Law of the Sea Convention, which governs how nations use the

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 12 November 2006 A Cluster Bomb Unit, dropped by Israeli warplanes, sits in southern village of Ouazaiyeh, Lebanon, November 9, 2006 A new international treaty aimed at reducing the deaths and injuries from cluster bombs, land

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By Teri Schultz Brussels 23 June 2007 After an all-night round of negotiations, leaders of the European Union agreed early Saturday morning on the basic outline of a new treaty reforming EU rules and institutions. The agreement is considered another

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 23 April 2007 Kenya will ask Eritrea to re-join a regional grouping of countries that spearheads peace and development efforts in the Horn of Africa and East Africa. Eritrea withdrew from the organization Saturday widely bel

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By Catherine Maddux Washington 19 December 2006 A recent report issued by the Council on Foreign Relations says unresolved tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea could inflame an already dangerous situation in neighboring Somalia. VOA's Catherine Mad

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By David McAlary Washington 20 June 2006 Older women at high risk for breast cancer may soon have a new treatment option. Researchers have discovered that an osteoporosis drug is effective against the disease. In fact, it is as good as the establish

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The United States said Monday the government of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe cannot be considered legitimate in the absence of a presidential runoff election. In the wake of opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai's forced departure from the c

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The United States confirmed Friday North Korea has reversed the steps it took in recent weeks to restart its Yongbyon nuclear reactor. The action by Pyongyang is in line with an agreement reached late last week to salvage the six-party accord under

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Washington celebrated well into the night Tuesday following Barack Obama's inauguration as the 44th president of the United States. But the celebrating quickly gave way to the reality of the problems and challenges facing the new president. Presiden

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Violence on Rise in Iraq's Oil-Rich Kirkuk Area Four months ago, Tuz Khormatu, a sleepy town 80 kilometers southeast of Kirkuk, became the new frontline between Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region and the central government. Political tensions over

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By David Gollust State Department 03 October 2007 The Bush administration says U.S. experts will go to North Korea next week to oversee the disabling of that country's reactor complex under the six-party nuclear agreement announced by China Wednesday

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By Deborah Tate Washington 09 February 2006 In Washington, key lawmakers have introduced legislation aimed at boosting U.S. efforts to curb the threat posed by conventional weapons, including shoulder

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By Peter Fedynsky Washington 11 December 2006 It is said that information is power. To stay in power, corrupt individuals and groups around the world censor, jail, and even kill journalists who reveal information about criminality and abuse of offic

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 06 September 2006 The Eritrean government has expelled five U.N. staff members on spying allegations. Four out of the five are members of the U.N. Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea. The fifth was formerly a security coordinat

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 15 November 2007 The spokesman for the Ugandan army says Uganda's 1,600 peacekeeping troops in Somalia will stay in the capital Mogadishu and defend themselves against any attack by militant Somali Islamists, whose leader has vo

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 05 April 2007 The Eritrean government has banned the practice of female genital mutilation. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairobi. Proclamation 158 went into force on the last day of March. It mandates jail terms or fi

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