Africa's top peace and security official has welcomed the resignation of Somalia's President Abdullahi Yusuf, saying it clears the way for actions that could prevent the country from descending into chaos as Ethiopian troops withdraw. African Union

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美国新晋说唱女歌手 Azealia Banks 变身大漠妖姬,带来超动感单曲《Heavy Metal And Reflective》!感觉棒极啦,飚车一族势不可挡,期待 Azealia Banks 更多更好的作品。 歌词: Fridgy froze kept, it's that f

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By Dorian Jones Ankara 04 August 2007 Turkey swore in its new Parliament Saturday. In elections last month, the Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party achieved a landslide victory, prompting some analysts to voice concern about Turkey's future

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IN THE NEWS - US, Australia Expand Military Cooperation This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, Barack Obama became the fourth American president to speak to Australias parliament. Mr. Obama noted the strong ties between the two countr

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 19 January 2008 The Inter-Parliamentary Union is calling on Rwanda to investigate the disappearance of one of its members of parliament, Leonardo Hitimana. The Geneva-based group says the Rwandan government has never come up wi

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By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 24 May 2006 In a severe blow to efforts to establish a functioning government in the Horn of Africa country of Somalia, four elected ministers, all based in the capital Mogadishu, have announced that they are quitting the gov

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Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has said that if the government moves forward with plans to convene parliament next week, it would violate a memorandum of understanding between the two sides on power-sharing negotiations. Tsvangirai m

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Islamist insurgents in Somalia have said that they will fight against any foreign troops that intervene in the country's conflict. On Saturday, Somalia's parliament appealed to countries in the region to intervene military to help the fledgling inte

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The African Union said its peacekeeping mission in Somalia will not be deterred by Sunday's terrorist bomb attack in Mogadishu that killed 11 Burundian peacekeepers and wounded dozens more. AU tanks patrol the street in Mogadishu on 09 Feb 2009 The

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Ending Use of Child Soldiers in Somalia This week, Somali government officials agreed to begin taking steps to end the recruitment of child soldiers. The Transitional Federal Government, or TFG, and the al Shabab militant group, are cited by the Unit

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Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, is reportedly calm one day after African Union peacekeepers were seen fighting al-Shabab-led insurgents in the north of the city. The incident has raised questions about whether the peacekeepers exceeded their mandate,

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Mas que Nada became a top ten hit, the first Portuguese language success in American pop history. -That song, Mas que Nada, is magical. I told Jorge Ben the other day I saw him in LA. And I thank him for writing that song because there's not many son

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In 1966, the co-winner of the TV Record Festival was Chico Buarque, who became an instant star with A Banda. Buarque was praised by traditionalists as the heir to the great samba cancao writers of the 1930s, who would become a symbol of resistance to

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Gil and Veloso arrived in London as exiles in 1969 and stayed for over two years. They became actively involved in the London music scene and they both wrote and recorded in English. Caetano even praised the London police. Where to go, A group approa

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This became known as the festival of booing. Roberto Carlos, the most successful pop star in Brazilian history and the host of a highly successful TV music show, was of course given a hard time. And the winner, predictably enough, was a singer associ

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He was the embryo of the very thing we were trying to do consciously. He had started with bossa nova, and he had added rhythm'n'blues and rock'n'roll to his thing. And he had a new synthesis that prefigured everything the Tropicalistas wanted to, to

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The military took their revenge by harassing Nascimento. In the early 70s, he was estranged from his wife and son who were living in Sao Paolo and he was phoned, warning of the consequences if he tried to visit his family. Long passages of Spanish se

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In the early 70s, when Gil met them, Filhos De Gandhi were in a bad way, they were the only Bloco Afro in Bahia, playing African at ceremonies, that they have few members and werent even taking part in Carnival. Gil joined the group and brought them

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By Scott Bobb Nairobi 12 February 2008 The chief mediator in the Kenya reconciliation talks, Kofi Annan, has briefed the Kenyan parliament on the negotiations. VOA's Scott Bobb reports from Nairobi that the former U.N. secretary-general placed a medi

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By Edward Yeranian Beirut 06 August 2007 Former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel waves to supporters after voting in the town of Bikfaya, Lebanon, 05 Aug 2007 Former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel has gone down to defeat in a parliament by-election t

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