The United States has partnered with the countries of East Africa to counter violent extremism. On a recent trip to Kenya and Djibouti, U.S. Deputy Coordinator for Counterterrorism Michael Ortiz met with senior government officials, local and county

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Passage Two Engineering students are supposed to be examples of practicality and rationality, but when it comes to my college education I am an idealist and a fool. In high school I wanted to be an el

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By Scott Bobb Nairobi 25 February 2008 In Kenya, government and opposition officials have resumed talks on the country's political crisis. As VOA's Scott Bobb reports from Nairobi, the talks were suspended after several hours so the two sides could h

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By Al Pessin Brussels 13 June 2007 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the NATO alliance has demonstrated that it can be effective in Afghanistan in spite of continuing shortfalls in the number of troops member-nations are providing. VOA's Al Pe

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U.S. President Barack Obama has arrived in Mexico for the North American Leaders Summit. Mr. Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon will attempt to coordinate their efforts on a number of issues. Presiden

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By Scott Stearns White House 23 September 2006 In his speech to the U.N. General Assembly this past week, President Bush spoke of a more hopeful world beyond terrorism, where voices of moderation are empowered and extremists are marginalized by a pe

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By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 28 August 2007 Taleban representatives head to Afghan Red Crescent Society in Gazni province where discussions on hostages are being held, 28 Aug 2007 Taleban militants and South Korean officials say they have reached a dea

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By Gary Thomas Washington 20 April 2006 John Negroponte The director of national intelligence says he has moved aggressively over the past year to improve American intelligence collection and analysis

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By David Gollust Washington 19 January 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, continuing a bureaucratic shake-up, is reorganizing the United States' foreign aid apparatus. She is creating what amou

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As leaders of leading developing and advanced economies prepare to meet in Washington November 15 to discuss weakening conditions in the global economy, there is an expectation that they will endorse increased government spending to maintain economi

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South Korea is among the nations taking part in this week's Asia-Europe summit in Beijing. Even as the country's president left for the Chinese capital, the latest set of plunging market numbers lit up trading screens in Seoul. As VOA's Kurt Achin r

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By Brian Padden Jakarta 25 September 2009 Overview of an Electronics Fair in Hong Kong, 13 Apr 2009 President Barack Obama is expected to announce that the G20 group of nations, which includes the Asian economies of India, China, Indonesia and South

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced on Wednesday a multi-pronged U.S. effort to curb Somali-based maritime piracy. Among other things, the United States will move to track and freeze assets of pirate gangs, and press Somali authorities to s

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The leaders of the world's most powerful economies ended their first day of discussions at the G8 summit in Italy with a reaffirmation of their commitment to working together on the world economic crisis, climate change and development aid to the wo

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By Margaret Besheer United Nations 07 May 2008 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging the government of Burma to speed the arrival of aid workers and relief supplies to the cyclone-devastated country. From United Nations headquarters in New Yor

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U.S. and European central banks have in unison cut their interest rates by half a percentage point. The coordinated move is aimed at bringing some stability back to the shaky global economy and slumping stock markets. For VOA, Tom Rivers reports fro

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he is deeply concerned about civilian casualties in Afghanistan. Mr. Ban called for closer cooperation between civilian and military leaders. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and Afghan President Hamid Karz

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By Paula Wolfson Washington 15 August 2006 President Bush at a meeting with the Homeland Security Team at the National Counterterrorism Center President Bush says almost five years after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, America is safer, bu

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By David Gollust State Department 05 February 2008 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flies to London Tuesday for talks with top British officials on an escalating row within NATO over troop levels in Afghanistan. The Bush administration wants

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By Ron Corben Bangkok 21 June 2007 The violence in Thailand's southern border provinces has escalated in recent months, the death toll rising from almost daily attacks, with schools and state officials especially targeted. The rising terror comes as

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