By Jeff Swicord Howard County, Maryland 18 May 2006 watch School Drop Out report It is estimated between 15 and 30 percent of high school students in the U.S. will not graduate. And among some minorit

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By Sonja Pace Yarmouk, Damascus 13 February 2006 A few weeks after the militant group Hamas won a surprise victory in Palestinian legislative elections, there is still much uncertainty about what it m

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 08 March 2006 India remained on high alert Wednesday to prevent sectarian violence in the aftermath of bomb attacks that killed 20 people and wounded more than 50 in a hol

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 09 May 2007 Lisa Dunn-Dern, author The books of children's author Lisa Dunn-Dern portray an interracial family like her own. Her second book has just been released, and as Mike O'Sullivan reports, the author is expandin

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By Bill Rodgers Washington 27 April 2007 Somali Transitional Federal Soldiers with an anti-aircraft gun mounted on the pickup and soldiers carrying AK 47s in the street of Mogadishu, 27 Apr 2007 Somalia's Prime Minister, Ali Mohamed Gedi, is claiming

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By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 25 May 2006 Vicious fighting has broken out again in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, killing and wounding dozens of civilians. The violence was the latest in a series of battles between militias loyal to the Islamic courts and

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 08 December 2006 U.N. aid agencies are stepping up humanitarian assistance to three flood-stricken countries in the Horn of Africa. The agencies are warning the risk of epidemics breaking out in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia is

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By Kari Barber Dakar 24 April 2007 Human-rights groups are calling for an investigation into the Guinea government's use of force that left more than 100 dead following nationwide, union-led strikes and protests in January and February. Kari Barber r

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By Ron Corben Bangkok 20 February 2007 A Karen boy, 6, allegedly shot in the arm by Burma military, during a massacre of villagers (File) A U.S. human rights and environmental group accuses Burma's military government of forcing ethnic Karen out of t

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 21 February 2007 Human rights groups are blasting Kenyan police for killing one of Kenya's most wanted criminals, saying that the suspect should have been taken into custody and tried rather than shot. As Cathy Majtenyi rep

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By Al Pessin Washington 19 October 2006 The senior U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad acknowledged Thursday that the U.S. and Iraqi effort to reduce sectarian violence in Baghdad is not working very well. That statement comes as many analysts are re

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By Melinda Smith Washington 24 May 2007 A new drug study has caught the attention of millions of diabetics around the world and doctors who treat them. VOA's Melinda Smith has more about the study which links a popular insulin controlling drug to an

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By Tendai Maphosa London 23 May 2007 Human rights watchdog Amnesty International launched its annual report for 2007 in London. The group says the 12 months covered again show gross human rights abuses on the African continent. Tendai Maphosa has mor

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 19 April 2006 Ian Martin, the representative of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Katmandu, speaks in Katmandu, Nepal (File photo - Feb. 16, 2006) A Senior U.N. official

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By Alan Silverman Hollywood 22 April 2006 Secret Service agents are the heroes and the suspects in a fanciful new political thriller set within the agency responsible for protecting the President and

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 29 March 2007 Human rights organizations are warning that the violence in Zimbabwe could spiral out of control and are calling for Southern African leaders to take action if the Zimbabwe government fails to halt the brutali

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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has criticized Burma's military government for being out of step with its southeast Asian neighbors on rule of law, human rights, and democracy. VOA's Luis Ramirez reports from Singapore Rice spoke to ministe

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As Israeli troops begin pulling out of the Gaza Strip, following their 22-day offensive against Hamas militants, the United Nations is intensifying its efforts to deal with the humanitarian crisis left in its wake. A Palestinian family sit next to t

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Many developing countries are closely watching the role escalating food prices is playing in the turmoil in North Africa. Government repression, corruption, unemployment and poverty united protesters to oust Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak last week

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By Gary Thomas Washington 02 March 2006 Part of the reason for President Bush's trip to Pakistan is to bolster support for anti-terrorist efforts against remnants of the Taleban and al-Qaida. But as V

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