The United States Friday expressed deep disappointment that Zimbabwe's presidential runoff election went forward even though incumbent President Robert Mugabe was the only candidate. U.S. officials say they will pursue new bilateral and internationa

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Ghana Political Parties Vie for Power in December Polls As voters in Ghana prepare to elect a president and parliament in December, the rival political parties are busy canvassing for votes. Most feel political tension is not especially high. George

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By David McAlary Washington 11 May 2006 Scientists have developed a cheap, rapid test to determine who has trachoma, the leading infectious cause of blindness in poor countries. The researchers say th

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By Meredith Buel Washington 07 February 2006 U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the military must continue to transform in order to defend America against terrorists and future threats that a

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By Margaret Besheer Baghdad 20 December 2006 The new U.S. defense secretary, Robert Gates, has made good on his promise to make the Iraq war his top priority, arriving in the country to assess the situation on the ground just two days after being sw

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By Paula Wolfson Washington 03 July 2007 President Bush in Washington, 3 July 2007 President Bush is defending his decision to commute the prison sentence of a former top White House aide. VOA White House Correspondent Paula Wolfson reports, the acti

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says an announced decision by Kyrgyzstan to end U.S. access to an airbase serving NATO troops in Afghanistan is regrettable, but not a major setback for the Obama administration. Clinton discussed the Afghan confli

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By Kari Barber Dakar 01 March 2007 President Abdoulaye Wade comments after winning re-election Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade has declared the winner in last Sunday's ballot by election officials who gave him nearly 56 percent of the vote. Resul

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 23 November 2007 Australia's political leaders have made their final pleas to voters ahead of Saturday's federal election. The conservative Prime Minister John Howard is widely tipped to lose power after more than a decade in of

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U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton visits Turkey Saturday, the final stop on a trip that has included stops in the Middle East and Europe. US Sec. of State Hillary Clinton arrives for a meeting of the EU-US Troika in Brussels, 06 Mar 2009 Secret

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 22 April 2007 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (file photo) U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is appealing to the Security Council to give him more time to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Darfur before imposing eco

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By Bill Rodgers Washington, DC 20 December 2006 watch report on Iraqi Attacks The U.S. Defense Department says insurgent and sectarian attacks in Iraq have soared to record highs over the last three months, to about 1,000 incidents each week. The Pe

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By Barbara Schoetzau New York 28 September 2006 In 2004, Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid became the first and, to date, only woman to win the prestigious Pritzker Architectural Prize, the so-called Nobel of the design world. Her bold designs are on

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 25 March 2007 The Secretary-General of the United Nations has arrived in Israel for separate talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, the Middle East peace process an

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By Leta Hong Fincher Washington 29 June 2006 Watch Afghanistan Report U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has promised victory over a resurgence of Taleban forces in Afghanistan. Rice reaffirmed U.S. support for Afghanistan during a visit to Ka

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The Bush administration says the U.S. economy will continue to experience slow growth in the months ahead, but is fundamentally sound. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Washington, where Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson gave his assessment of econom

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Secret Service Scandal Continues to Shake Washington As photos surfaced of one of the Colombian women allegedly involved, other details also have emerged - including the identities of two agents ousted so far from the agency. David Chaney and Greg St

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US Secret Service Maintains Dual Mission - Investigations, Protection U.S. Secret Service agents are credited with saving President Ronald Reagan's life during an assassination attempt in 1981. Day in and day out, Secret Service agents and uniformed

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling on Israel to carry out a unilateral cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. Israel has rejected those calls, and on Friday continued its bombardment of Gaza, where medical officials say more than 1,100 people have

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The U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he will leave Friday for a two-day visit to Sri Lanka to see first-hand the damage done by the fighting between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels. Mr. Ban, who spoke to reporters at the U.N. Europea

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