By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 27 March 2007 Leaders of 14 nations in Southern Africa are to meet Wednesday and Thursday in Tanzania to discuss the political situation in Zimbabwe. Meanwhile, senior leaders of Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party are preparin

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By Gary Thomas Dearborn, Michigan 18 September 2009 The United States and its allies have long contended that Iran is embarked on a path to becoming a nuclear weapons power. CIA Chief Leon Panetta In an exclusive VOA interview, CIA Director Leon Pan

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Presidential Debates Meant to Persuade Undecided Voters By October, each major party's presidential candidate has locked in many supporters. But there are still undecided people to persuade, whose votes may well decide the election. The debates betwe

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Post-Ceasefire, No Signs of Peace in Burma's Kachin People who fled their homes for this temporary camp in Burma's Kachin state are bracing for the monsoon season, worrying about food shortages. Despite an increase in foreign aid flowing into Burma's

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US Presidential Inaugurations Transfer Power Peacefully At noon on January 20, in the year following the November presidential election, a new U.S. president takes office, or the incumbent president continues on to a second four-year term. Inaugurati

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'Holiday Season' Includes Secular Kwanzaa When Americans talk about the holiday season, its understood that this includes the Christian Christmas, the Jewish Hanukkah, and the secular New Years Day. But 45 years ago, a weeklong celebration joined the

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Toronto Festival Offers Glimpse of Season's Best Films The Toronto film festival traditionally showcases some of the years best films, including potential Oscar nominees. George Clooney and Ryan Gosling were among those walking Torontos red carpet th

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Obama, Netanyahu: Hamas Not a Partner for Peace At the White House, U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have held talks on the troubled Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The two leaders issued statements masking

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Fifteen years after pulling out because of Sierra Leone's civil war, Peace Corps volunteers are back in the West African nation. A look at the organization's work as the Peace Corps marks its 50th anniversary this year, March 1st. Amanda Pease is one

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VOA标准英语2011--First Day After Revolution is Reason to Party For Libyan Students Libyans went about their normal business Monday, the first day after the official end of their revolution, which overthrew Moammar Gadhaffi after 42 years of one-m

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Study Calculates High Cost of Heavy Drinking Excessive alcohol consumption in the United States costs Americans more than $200 billion a year, according to a new study. That hefty bill includes the medical costs related to heavy drinking, plus the im

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Hope For Peace Fades in Turkey Over PKK Attack The Turkish government has vowed strong retaliation against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), after Kurdish rebels launched a deadly attack on Turkish soldiers in Hakkari province near Turkey's border w

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Turkey Unrest May Impact Syria Peace Talks Turkey is a front-line state in the Syrian conflict. Turks have been the victims of bombings along the border and host to more than 200,000 Syrian refugees. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has been

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Lebanon's 'Garden of Forgiveness' Aims to Nurture Peace Alexandra Asseily first came to Lebanon in 1966. She married a Lebanese man and raised her children in Lebanon. Then, in 1975, Lebanon's civil war broke out. During the war I became very distres

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By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 18 July 2006 At least 320 people are dead, hundreds are injured and nearly 3,000 have been left homeless by the tsunami that battered the Indonesian island of Java Monday. Aid agencies are assessing damage from the powerful

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By Catherine Makino Tokyo 17 July 2007 A day after a powerful earthquake struck Japan's northwestern coast, officials are investigating the possibility of radioactive leaks at a nuclear power plant. As Catherine Makino reports from Tokyo, the search

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 15 April 2007 Clementine Roux, 19, of France shows a handbill pasted on her chest as she participates in a demonstration by tourists to express their solidarity for the restoration of democracy in Nepal in Katmandu, 18 Ap

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By Franz Wild Abidjan 03 July 2006 African leaders meeting at an African Union summit in Gambia on Sunday agreed to extend the mandate of their peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region until at least December. The summit also endorsed Senegal's decisio

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By Paula Wolfson Washington 08 June 2006 watch report Zarqawi Killed President Bush speaks about the death of al-Qaida in Iraq's leader President Bush is calling the death of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi a blow toal-Qaida in Iraq. The terro

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By Meredith Buel Washington 09 June 2006 The U.S. military says it has conducted dozens of raids in Iraq following the death of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. A military spokesman says the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq initially survived an air

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