By Bill Rodgers Washington, DC 31 January 2007 watch Cuba's Economy report The fate of Cuba's ailing leader, Fidel Castro, has focused renewed attention on his communist nation and generated speculation about the Caribbean island's political and eco

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 02 February 2006 A senior United Nations official is calling on nations to stop selling arms to African countries. The official says Africa is awash with weapons which are at th

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President Barack Obama has been under pressure to recast the nation's relations with Cuba and ease decades of restrictions on the Communist government. Already the president has ended travel limits on Cuban-Americans and called for new talks between

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By Franz Wild Abidjan 06 November 2006 The effectiveness of a plan to filter out so-called blood diamonds is under review at a conference in Botswana. A recent report about diamonds being smuggled out of Ivory Coast will top the agenda. --- Represen

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AS IT IS 2014-04-09 Experts Liken Ukraine Crisis to Soviet's Afghanistan Invasion 专家比喻乌克兰危机为当年苏联入侵阿富汗 Hello. Im Jim Tedder in Washington. Lets do it again! Its time to learn and improve your American English whil

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By Challiss McDonough Cairo 19 April 2007 The Arab League has picked Egypt and Jordan to take the lead in approaching Israel to promote the newly revived Arab peace plan aimed at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. VOA correspondent Challiss

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 13 September 2006 The African Union Wednesday endorsed a plan to send a regional peacekeeping force into volatile Somalia. The approval comes as the Union of Islamist Courts is reportedly advancing on a key southern port in

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 07 December 2006 Hundreds of Kenyans marched in the streets of Nairobi, calling for the end of rapes and other abuses being committed against girls and women in Darfur. The march is one of several events planned worldwide t

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By Peter Heinlein United Nations 06 October 2006 Security Council has threatened North Korea with unspecified consequences, if it goes ahead with planned nuclear weapons tests. The statement adopted Friday warns North Korea that testing a nuclear de

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The U.N. Security Council is considering a U.S.-written draft resolution on Zimbabwe that would tighten sanctions against the government of Robert Mugabe and a dozen individuals. From United Nation's headquarters in New York, VOA's Margaret Besheer

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