By Ben Gilbert Baghdad 11 January 2006 An Iraqi mason works on a wall surrounding a new school on the outskirts of Basra (file picture) Iraq has been hit with a construction boom - in no small part du

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By Scott Stearns White House 16 December 2006 U.S. President George Bush continues to consider options for what he says will be a new way forward in Iraq. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, a bipartisan panel of senior officials is

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By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 24 January 2007 Democratic Senator James Webb called for a new direction in Iraq, one based on regional diplomacy, in his party's official response to President Bush's State of the Union address Tuesday night. VOA's Debor

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 03 November 2006 The U.N. refugee agency says Iraq is facing a displacement crisis, on a larger scale than was anticipated when the war began in 2003. The UNHCR says continuing violence is leading more Iraqis to flee their hom

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By Gary Thomas Washington 20 June 2006 A cable from the U.S. ambassador in Iraq to the State Department says Iraqis employed at the American Embassy in Baghdad live in fear that they will be unmasked as working for Americans. The message was leaked

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By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 14 March 2006 watch US in Iraq 3 Years Three years ago, President Bush ordered coalition forces to invade Iraq to free its people and defend the world against weapons

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By Ben Gilbert Baghdad 08 February 2006 The U.S. military says 100 Iraqi army battalions, totaling about 104,000 Iraqi soldiers, are now fighting alongside U.S. troops in Iraq. The U.S. military says

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By Ben Gilbert Baghdad 06 January 2006 Iraqi soldiers gathered in the U.S.-protected Green Zone Friday to celebrate Armed Forces Day. The parades and speeches come one day after suicide bombers in two

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By Stephanie Ho Washington 01 February 2007 The group Reporters Without Borders says the number of journalists and media workers killed or imprisoned around the world in 2006 was the highest in more than a decade. In its annual report, the organizati

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By Vivian Salama Cairo 21 June 2006 Arab soccer fans are expressing outrage after a player on Ghana's national team triumphantly waved an Israeli flag to celebrate a goal scored by his team at the World Cup. Player John Paintsil normally plays for a

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By Jim Randle Baghdad 23 January 2007 A top U.N. envoy says Iraq is sliding into what he calls the abyss of sectarianism and he is urging Iraqi leaders to do more to stop the violence. Across Iraq Tuesday a series of car bombs, kidnappings, and shoot

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By Scott Stearns White House 19 April 2007 President Bush says pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq prematurely would put Americans at greater risk of another terrorist attack. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, opposition Democrats have

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By Barry Newhouse Sheikhan, Iraq 19 February 2007 Iraq's northern Kurdistan region has been relatively free of the sectarian fighting that has crippled the rest of the country, but a rare attack by Sunni Kurds on a religious group called the has loca

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By Barry Newhouse Irbil 16 February 2007 Hundreds-of-thousands of Iraqis have fled sectarian violence near their homes since Saddam Hussein was ousted, and the U.N. says up to 1 million more could flee their homes this year. About half of them are be

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By Paula Wolfson White House 20 December 2006 President Bush has signed legislation normalizing U.S. trade relations with Vietnam. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from the White House the provision was included in a wide-ranging tax bill. President Geor

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By Paula Wolfson Hanoi 19 November 2006 President Bush, President Putin, after they made statements regarding a US-Russia agreement in Hanoi, November 19, 2006 The United States and Russia have signed a landmark trade agreement moving Moscow closer

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By Benjamin Sand Irbil, Iraq 21 October 2006 Iraq's interior minister held an emergency meeting Saturday with Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a day after armed members of the Shi'ite leader's militia briefly took over a key southern city. The recent

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By Sonja Pace London 23 October 2006 Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, left, meets with visiting Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh, Monday Oct. 23, 2006 raqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh says his government is working to take greater

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By Benjamin Sand Irbil 24 October 2006 The Kurdistan region in northern Iraq has largely escaped the country's surging violence, but many women there say they still lack basic human rights. And in the region's capital Irbil, several women have start

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By Tom Rivers London 24 July 2006 British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Iraqi counterpart Nouri al-Maliki have met Monday, in London. Planned discussions on political and security developments in Iraq were instead dominated by the crisis in Leba

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