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From NPR news in Washington, I'm Barbara Cline.In Philadelphia, ecstatic crowds as Pope Francis rose to the street to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway where he's just beginning to celebrate outdoor Mass, the last major event of his US trip. Earlier toda
It has been nearly two weeks since suicide bombers attacked two luxury hotels in Indonesia. The blasts killed seven people and injured more than 50, but appears to have had little long-term economic or political impact. The governor of Jakarta said
Australia's Defence Force is facing a shortage of doctors, and this is affecting its overseas missions. An ABC online investigation has found that low morale is forcing many medical personnel out of the military. A reservist doctor says medical profe
It's that topic indeed--Labor leaders searching for a compromise on same-sex marriage ahead of the party's national conference which begins this morning. The National Right convener David Feeney says his faction has decided to vote as a bloc in a con
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 01 October 2007 give a boost to the peace process. But as Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, there is mixed reaction among Israelis and Palestinians. Israel released the prisoners Monday as a goodwill gestu
US Officials: Instability in Africa a Challenge to War on Terror At public curing, the intelligence officials said Africa has become a recruiting ground for Islamic extremists. They expressed concern
By Sonja Pace Istanbul 19 July 2007 Historic Galata Tower with flags of political parties, in Istanbul, 19 Jul 2007 Voters in Turkey go to the polls Sunday to elect a new parliament, which in turn will form the new government. More than a dozen polit
The president of Zimbabwe and two opposition leaders have signed a power-sharing agreement aimed at ending the Zimbabwean crisis. VOA's Scott Bobb reports from our Southern Africa Bureau in Johannesburg the accord follows months of negotiations medi
By Noel King Khartoum 08 January 2007 The governor of the U.S. state of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, met in Khartoum with Sudan's president to press him to allow deployment of U.N. peacekeepers in Sudan's western Darfur region. Noel King in Khartoum
By Malcolm Webb Nairobi 23 August 2007 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says many of the 10,000 Congolese refugees, who fled to neighboring Uganda Tuesday, have returned to their homes. The exodus from villages in the North Kivu prov
Islamist insurgents have taken control of the port city of Kismayo in southern Somalia. As Derek Kilner reports from VOA's East Africa bureau in Nairobi, the city returned to calm on Saturday after three days of fighting that left more than 60 peopl
Sri Lanka's government and the international community have been pouring tens of millions of dollars into the country's Eastern Province. The area was liberated by the army from rebel Tamil separatists a year ago during the country's on-going civil
President Robert Mugabe opened Zimbabwe's parliament in a ceremony marked by colonial-era symbols and defiant protest songs by the majority Movement for Democratic Change legislators, which drowned out parts of his speech. Peta Thornycroft reports f
Talks between the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and a rebel faction taking place in Nairobi have encountered difficulties, with U.N. Special Envoy Olusegun Obasanjo placing most of the blame on the rebel delegation. The rebel group,
In Somalia's capital, the radical Islamist al-Shabab militia amputated a hand and a foot each from four young men accused of stealing guns and mobile phones. The militia has imposed a harsh brand of Islamic law in areas of Somalia under its control.
By Brian Padden Jakarta 21 September 2009 Authorities say the death of Noordin Top, the leader of a group responsible for the July 17 bombings of two hotels in Jakarta, is a significant victory in Indonesia's war on terror. But they also say that po
By Luis Ramirez Jerusalem 16 November 2009 Palestinian leaders say they are pushing efforts to have the U.N. Security Council endorse the creation of a Palestinian state out of frustration over the stalled peace process. Israel has threatened to tak
Throughout the Middle East, a Need to Change Course 在整个中东地区,需要改变方向 The United States cares about the Middle East because of the economic, political, and security interests we have, the many friendships we have forged, and th
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: At a time when much of the country says that it hates Washington, D.C., politics, power brokers, spin doctors and compromise, not to mention the press, the executive director of the American Press Institute has written a novel that
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 02 November 2007 Tens of thousands of people in Tbilisi are protesting against the government of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, who came to power following demonstrations that swept aside his predecessor in 2003. VOA