Economics Report - President Obama Presses Congress on Student Loan Interest This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Student loans and the interest millions of Americans pay on them have been getting a lot of attention recently. Student loa

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By Lisa McAdams Moscow 16 August 2006 Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and his Russian counterpart, Mikhail Fradkov, say they have reached agreement on the price Kiev will pay Moscow for natural gas. But the two leaders failed to secure te

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By Michael Drudge London 11 May 2006 Police officer gives commuter directions at Tottenham Court Road after tube networks plunged into chaos July 21, 2005 British authorities have cleared intelligence

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By Gary Thomas Washington 27 February 2007 The top U.S. intelligence officer says Pakistan could make more energetic anti-terrorist efforts along the Afghan border. But, he adds, Pakistan's military ruler has political concerns in an election year.

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By Gary Thomas Washington 02 February 2007 A new U.S. intelligence estimate says that the chaotic situation in Iraq could deteriorate further unless the warring sectarian parties compromise. But it says that the current political climate makes such

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By Sonja Pace Jerusalem 23 July 2006 Three senior European envoys held talks with Israeli officials ahead of a visit to the region by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. But as diplomacy intensifies to end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah g

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By Al Pessin Washington 01 September 2006 The U.S. Defense Department says it conducted a successful test of its land-based ballistic missile defense system on Friday. Officials say a missile launched from California intercepted a target missile fro

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Australia's Muslim leaders have opened their mosques and schools to house Roman Catholic pilgrims for World Youth Day as part of efforts to ease interfaith tensions. The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils is also planning mixed-faith sporting

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State Department officials are acknowledging an internal debate over whether the United States should open a diplomatic interests section in Tehran. Iran said Tuesday it would consider a request from the United States to open a diplomatic presence.

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Pakistan's president and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown have pledged to increase counter-terrorism cooperation following the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Mr. Brown arrived after another tense diplomatic exchange between the region's nuclear-armed

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India Holds Interest Rates Steady Amid Economic Slowdown As India struggles with an economic slowdown, the central bank has decided to hold interest rates steady. A series of aggressive rate hikes in the last 18 months have been partly blamed for dam

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One of the Inuit people's native symbols is being used as the the logo for the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Members of the indigenous tribe live in some of the most beautiful and isolated parts of Canada. The Inuit and other native peoples of Canada's

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In Mexico City Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised the Obama administration will stand side-by-side with Mexico in its fight against drug cartels, and acknowledged that the United States shares blame for the deadly unrest. Clinton

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By Alisha Ryu Baidoa, Somalia 04 July 2006 Somalia's interim government in Baidoa says it will send a senior-level delegation to the capital Mogadishu in the coming days to meet with Islamic leaders, ahead of a second round of peace talks on July 15

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By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 09 June 2006 Pakistan has described the killing of Abu Musab al- the terrorist leader in Iraq, as a significant development in the global war on terror. But al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden continues to elude U.S., Afghan an

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By Efam Dovi Accra 12 December 2006 Africans escaping rural poverty, in search of better lives in urban areas, are being forced to live in very difficult conditions. As cities struggle to cope with the influx, the majority are left without water, sa

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By Paula Wolfson White House 01 March 2007 U.S. intelligence officials say they stand by their assessment that North Korea was pursuing uranium enrichment in 2002. VOA White House Correspondent Paula Wolfson reports. Once again, the Bush administrati

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The Minister of Transport, Steven Joyce, said yesterday that some railway lines will probably be closed. The line between Napier and Gisborne, the northern Wairarapa line and the inland Taranaki line usually have just one train a week. It is possible

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By Tendai Maphosa London 12 June 2008 A senior intelligence official has been suspended following discovery that confidential documents related to Iraq and the activities of al-Qaida were left on a passenger train. The documents were were later hand

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U.S. President Barack Obama spoke with Afghan President Hamid Karzai regarding the new U.S. strategy for Afghanistan early Tuesday via video conference. Sean Maroney | Kabul 01 December 2009 US President Barack Obama at the White House (file photo) T

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