By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 19 April 2007 U.S. lawmakers are urging the Bush administration to reconsider proposed budgetary reductions that would end most radio broadcasting in the English language by government-funded Voice of America. VOA's Dan R

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By Anita Elash Paris 23 July 2007 The wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy is in Libya Monday for a second time to negotiate the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to life in prison for allegedly contaminating chi

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By Claudia Blume Hong Kong 24 June 2007 Cesar Acuna, 57, lies in a hospital bed recovering from dengue fever in Asuncion, 2 Mar 2007 Southeast Asian nations are worried about a surge in dengue fever this year. Experts say the disease, which usually g

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By Kari Barber Dakar 30 August 2007 Sierra Leone's police are urging leaders of the two political parties in the presidential runoff to take control of their supporters to avoid the kind of unrest that broke out earlier in the week. Sunday and Monday

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 20 March 2007 A senior U.S. military officer says insurgents in Iraq used two children to help them pass a coalition checkpoint in Baghdad in recent days, and then detonated a car bomb, killing the children. The officer reporte

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 16 March 2006 U.S. and Iraqi forces captured more than 30 suspected insurgents and found at least six major caches of weapons near the town of Samarra on Thursday, during the fir

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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Tuesday urged Iran to prove its interest in better relations by accepting the big-power offer of incentives for Tehran to stop uranium enrichment. Rice was responding to interview remarks by Iranian President

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By Jim Malone Washington 27 May 2008 The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Senator John McCain, spoke about the dangers of nuclear proliferation Tuesday in a speech in Denver, Colorado. Meanwhile, there is only one week left in the Democra

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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday called on African countries to do more to pressure Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to share power with the political opposition. Rice said that if Mr. Mugabe succeeds in retaining total contro

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: And House Republicans, as we noted, have met to discuss potential replacements for the Affordable Care Act. One suggestion to lower some people's premiums is to create what are called high-risk health insurance pools. But as Minnes

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As the Sino-U.S. trade dispute escalates, economists from a leading Chinese think tank have called on China to fight to the end, and not to yield to pressure. Trade frictions between China and the United States have continued to grow, as the American

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By Wajid Ali Syed Washington, DC 12 September 2006 watch Afghan Boy's Heart Surgery Stories of love and hope emerge amid the violence of every war. For writer Wajid Ali Syed, VOA's Jim Bertel (narrator) introduces us to a young Afghan boy who has ta

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By Melinda Smith Washington, DC 17 April 2006 watch Sinus Surgery report Many people who live in climates where there is a change of seasons often experience sinus problems. Sinus pain and headaches c

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By Scott Stearns White House 28 February 2008 President Bush says the House of Representatives risks reopening a dangerous gap in intelligence gathering by failing to pass a law expanding warrantless surveillance. VOA White House Correspondent Scott

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By Chad Bouchard Bali 06 December 2007 More than 200 of the world's leading climate scientists signed a petition calling for negotiators in Bali's United Nations Climate Change Conference to set aggressive targets for reducing greenhouse gas emission

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By Derek Kilner Nairobi 01 November 2007 The international organization Human Rights Watch is calling on the Sudanese government to put an end to forcibly relocating people displaced by conflict in the Western region of Darfur. As Derek Kilner report

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By Paula Wolfson White House 07 November 2007 President Bush has personally contacted Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf for the first time since the imposition of emergency rule in Pakistan. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from the White House, Mr. Bu

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By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 15 November 2006 U.S. congressional Democrats, who will control the House of Representatives and Senate beginning in January, are calling on the Bush administration to hold direct talks with Iran about its nuclear progra

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Both major U.S. presidential candidates are sounding a rare note of agreement as they urge Congress to act quickly on a plan to rescue the weakened U.S. financial sector. The latest on how the economic turmoil is impacting presidential politics from

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By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 05 January 2007 The top leaders of the new Democratic-led U.S. Congress are urging President Bush not to increase the number of U.S. troops in Iraq. Their comments, in a letter to the president Friday, come as Mr. Bush i

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