By Bill Rodgers Washington, DC 24 March 2006 watch UN Reform The reforms recently unveiled by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to overhaul the world body's operations have met resistance, both from s

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By Al Pessin Washington 24 March 2006 A report issued by the U.S. Department of Defense Friday quotes an Iraqi document as saying Russia provided intelligence to Iraq during the decisive early weeks o

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By Gary Thomas Washington 30 March 2006 Under pressure from some members of Congress, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte ordered the public release of thousands of documents and other f

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 18 June 2008 A ceasefire in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip is due to begin at 6:00 a.m. local time Thursday. Robert Berger reports from the VOA bureau in Jerusalem. Israeli soldier gestures to direct a tank moving on top of mi

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President Bush says the ongoing financial crisis has forced him to endorse aggressive government intervention in numerous economic sectors in spite of his core, free market principles. President Bush restated his desire to prevent the U.S. auto indu

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At least 18 people were killed as India's voters cast ballots in the first part of a five-stage election in the world's largest democracy. More than 2.5 million security officers were on duty in the 15 Indian states and two territories where balloti

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The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, warns that the world economy will further decline this year. Strauss-Kahn says Germany's biggest stimulus package since World War II offers some hope, although he caut

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Snack Maker's Business Model Aids Hunger Relief At an age when most Americans begin thinking about retirement, Lauren Walters founded a company aimed at feeding the world's hungry children. The idea came to the lifelong political activist and entrepr

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A United Nations agency is offering what it calls a conceptual breakthrough to uplift the world's poorest people. The U.N. Industrial Development Organization contends selective industrialization offers the best chance for smaller, developing countr

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he is deeply concerned over the abductions of three aid workers in Sudan and is calling for their immediate release without harm. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (file) U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said

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Israel's Prime Minister-designate, Benjamin Netanyahu, is closer to forming a government that will be dominated by right-wing parties that oppose giving many concessions to the Palestinians. But Mr. Netanyahu is seeking to form a broad coalition by

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Israel's outgoing government is pushing for what many describe as a lopsided prisoner swap with Palestinian militants. Israel has sent an intelligence chief and a top negotiator to Cairo in a last ditch effort to win the release of captive Israeli s

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Writer Takes Trans-Pacific Journey in New Novel The writer Lisa See takes readers on a trans-Pacific journey in her latest novel, Dreams of Joy. The book is a sequel to See's 2009 novel Shanghai Girls, which tells the story of two sisters, Pearl and

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other top Indian officials in New Delhi Monday, on a visit aimed cementing a growing U.S.-Indian strategic partnership. Clinton says she believes neighboring Pakistan has

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Hagel Wraps Up World Trip Aimed at Reassuring Partners For Hagel, his round-the-world trip was largely about reassuring allies, first in Asia and later at a NATO defense ministers' meeting in Europe, that Washington's budget problems are not eroding

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By Al Pessin Ifrane, Morocco 13 February 2006 US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, left, listens to Morocco's King Mohammed VI, right, during a meeting at the King's palace in Ifrane, central Moro

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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 19 January 2006 Israeli medics treat a person at the site of a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, Thursday A suicide bomber in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv blew himself up Thursday,

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By Phuong Tran Dakar 05 April 2007 In Ivory Coast, Prime Minister Guillaume Soro is finalizing who will be part of his new power-sharing government with President Laurent Gbagbo. Mr. Soro, who still controls rebel forces in the North, and President G

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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 09 August 2006 Israeli reservists walk along a dirt road on the Lebanon side of the border after crossing from northern Israel Wednesday Aug. 9, 2006 Israel's 12-member Security Cabinet has voted Wednesday to expand Israel's

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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 12 April 2007 A Syrian-American businessman and a former senior Israeli diplomat briefed a high-level Israeli parliamentary committee Thursday about their efforts to revive Israeli-Syrian peace talks. VOA's Jim Teeple reports

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