By Doug Levine Washington 30 April 2006 Toots Thielemans may not be a household name, but his music has been heard by millions the world over. He played guitar and harmonica in a folk-jazz style that

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By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 28 April 2006 A panel of experts gathered on Capitol Hill Friday to discuss efforts to prevent terrorists from obtaining enriched uranium and plutonium to make bombs. ----

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By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 15 June 2007 Across Africa, poverty and a tradition of putting children in the care of the extended family have led many parents to send their young children, especially daughters, to cities. There they often end up working in

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By Margaret Besheer Washington 05 February 2006 Demonstrators protest in front of the White House about conditions in Sudan, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2006, in Washington A leading human rights group says mil

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By Efam Dovi Accra 24 September 2006 Climate experts from across Africa, meeting in Ghana, say climate change would have a severe impact on Africa's water resources, energy, agriculture and eventually food security. The experts were assessing where

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By Leta Hong Fincher Washington, DC 27 February 2007 watch Genealogy report Strom Thurmond and Al Sharpton A new genealogical study shows that a prominent African-American civil rights activist is descended from a slave owned in the mid-nineteenth c

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 20 September 2006 A United Nations official who recently called for NATO forces in Afghanistan to help combat the sharply expanding opium trade says the country is becoming increasingly unstable. VOA's Dan Robinson repor

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 18 September 2006 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on the U.N. Human Rights Council to focus as much attention on the tragic situation in Sudan's conflict-ridden province of Darfur as it has on the crises in the Mi

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Judith: I had my annual physical two weeks ago and I just got a copy of the lab results, but I cant figure out what they mean. Steven: Let me take a look. The results of your blood tests are good. Your cholesterol is within the normal range, your glu

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By Teri Schultz Brussels 06 April 2007 It took a contentious all-night session to bridge gaps between scientists and policy-makers, but participants at a U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changeconference in Brussels emerged with a document tha

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By David Gollust Washington 07 June 2007 Leading human rights groups Thursday called on the U.S. government to account for terrorism suspects they believe were detained by U.S. authorities abroad but whose whereabouts are now unknown. The Bush admini

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