By Derek Kilner Nairobi 29 November 2007 One month ahead of general elections in Kenya, a new report claims that government-controlled broadcast media are favoring President Mwai Kibaki in their coverage. As Derek Kilner reports from Nairobi, Preside

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By Deborah Tate Washington 31 January 2007 Two former U.S. secretaries of state say the United States should step up diplomacy in the Middle East as a way to bring stability to Iraq. But in testimony before Congress, they disagreed on whether Presid

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By Gary Thomas Washington, D.C. 07 May 2007 Before the attacks of September 11, 2001, U.S. counterterrorist efforts were meager compared with those of today, and largely confined to a small cadre of specialists deep inside the intelligence community.

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By Sonja Pace Jerusalem 29 July 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived back in Israel Saturday for another round of diplomacy to end more than two weeks of relentless fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. ---------- I

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The two major party candidates for president of the United States, Republican Senator John McCain and Democrat Senator Barack Obama met in a spirited debate over the financial crisis and foreign policy Friday at the University of Mississippi. As VOA

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 28 June 2007 In recent days, two prominent senators from President Bush's Republican Party have made strong statements opposing his new Iraq strategy and calling for a change, well before the first official assessment of the str

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By David Gollust State Department 26 June 2007 The United States Tuesday urged Somalia's transitional federal government to reach out as broadly as possible to clans and other factions for the national reconciliation conference planned for mid-July.

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By Ron Corben Bangkok 26 May 2006 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on Burma's military government to release pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest. Mr. Annan issued the call in Thailand on the last stop of a f

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By Margaret Besheer Baghdad 16 April 2007 In the Iraqi capital, illegal Sunni and Shi'ite groups are trying to shift the sectarian balance of neighborhoods to their favor. They use intimidation and executions to force residents of different sects to

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 13 June 2007 South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls the fighting between Hamas and Fatah in the Gaza Strip a natural consequence of years of occupation. The archbishop, who headed a high-level fact-finding mission to the P

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By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 19 May 2006 watch Anthrax Detection report Anthrax Space age technology is playing a role in the war on terror. Paul Sisco reports on a device developed by the U.S. space

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By Catherine Maddux Washington 07 March 2006 watch Africa report While experts worry about a decline in much of the industrialized world's population, sub-Saharan Africa is among the few places where

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By Peter Heinlein New York 07 November 2006 Panama's Ambassador Dr. Ricardo Arias votes in UN General Assembly, November 7, 2006 Panama has been elected to a U.N. Security Council seat that had been the object of a bitter battle between Venezuela an

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By Scott Bobb Bangkok 08 May 2006 The pro-democracy opposition in Burma has dismissed claims in the government-controlled news media of mass resignations from the party. The response follows expressio

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By Al Pessin Washington 04 October 2006 On the eve of the transfer of security responsibility throughout Afghanistan to NATO, the organization's military commander called Wednesday for more action on non-military aspects of the international effort

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 10 June 2008 Hardline Somali opposition leaders, who refused to take part in U.N.-led peace talks in Djibouti, have rejected a cease-fire deal signed Monday between Somalia's interim government and another group of more moderat

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By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 17 January 2007 U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says U.S. commanders in Afghanistan are recommending increased troop levels to help combat the growing Taleban insurgency. The recommendation comes on top of President

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 16 September 2009 Jose Manuel Barroso The European Parliament has endorsed European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, for a second term in office. Barroso has pledged a stronger and more fiscally responsible Europe durin

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By Mil Arcega Washington, D.C. 02 January 2007 watch After Saddam video 2006 ended with a powerful reminder of U.S. losses in Iraq. Although the Pentagon has not yet confirmed it, media reports say the death toll for American troops has reached 3000

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By Michael Bowman Washington 01 November 2009 US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner - File Photo The Obama administration says the U.S. economy is rebounding from a painful recession and a severe financial crisis, but the recovery will be slow and unev

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