By David Gollust Washington 30 April 2007 A U.S. State Department report Tuesday said terrorist incidents and casualties attributed to them rose sharply in 2006. Most of the increase was due to the soaring violence in Iraq. VOA's David Gollust report

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By Mil Arcega Washington, DC 14 November 2006 warch Pandemic Impact A specialized information network known as MIDAS, short for Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study, shows an avian flu outbreak could wreak serious havoc on people and economies a

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By Tom Rivers London 19 February 2007 Suleymaniye mosque, Istanbul, left, and National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. A large-scale survey commissioned by the BBC finds that, despite current global tensions, the majority of people around the world rejec

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Pope Benedict Says Goodbye as Leader of the Worldwide Roman Catholic Church From VOA Learning English, this is IN THE NEWS in Special English. Pope Benedict gave his last public blessing this week to tens of thousands of people in Saint Peters Square

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Iran, Iraq Drive Spike in Executions Worldwide 2013年伊朗和伊拉克死刑人数飙升 LONDON The human rights group Amnesty International says there was a spike in the number of death penalties carried out worldwide in 2013. The group says China

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 14 June 2007 A U.N. expert says more than 850 million people around the world are starving. The expert, who has submitted a report on the state of world hunger to the U.N. Human Rights Council, says the international community

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