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AS IT IS - The Oldest Non-Federal Art Museum in Washington, DC and a Jewish Museum in Germany Hello again and thanks for joining us for another edition of AS IT IS. Im June Simms. Coming up today, we visit a Jewish museum in Germany, where the number
By Catherine Drew Berlin 06 June 2006 watch World Cup Preview report With just days to go before the World Cup kicks off in Germany, preparations have entered the final stages. Twelve German cities wi
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 12 April 2006 The President of FIFA, Joseph Blatter says he is confident Germany has taken all measures needed to ensure a safe, clean and entertaining World Cup. He says the ga
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 10 October 2007 Somali interim Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi and his government are expected to face a confidence vote in parliament this week, heightening speculation that Somalia's political leadership may soon change. As VO
Barack Obama Begins 2nd Term as President From VOA Learning English, this is IN THE NEWS in Special English. This week, Barack Obama began his second term as president of the United States. The public swearing-in ceremony took place on Monday at the
Agriculture Report - Test Your Word Knowledge With a Quiz About Farm Terms This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Today we have a vocabulary quiz. We start with two questions about terms for plants. OK, first question: What is the name f
By Tendai Maphosa London 24 August 2007 Amnesty International has released photographs it says show that Sudan's government is still deploying weapons to Darfur in what the rights organization describes as breathtaking defiance of a United Nations ar
By Tendai Maphosa London 25 September 2007 Mauritius is the best run country in Africa and Somalia is the worst, according to a new good governance index published on Tuesday. Tendai Maphosa has the details in this report for VOA from London. The fir
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 22 January 2008 The U.S. ambassador to Kenya has angrily denounced print and broadcast advertisements placed by the government of President Mwai Kibaki, which accuses the United States and other Western countries of contributing
German Housewife Hailed as Euro Solution In the parks of Stuttgart, the regional capital of Swabia, there are few signs of a crisis, and the economy is growing. In a speech, at the start of the global financial crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Kenya's fragile eight-month-old coalition government is in deep crisis amid accusations that President Mwai Kibaki is trying to sideline and undermine the authority of the Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Months of tension between the two leaders peaked
In Close Race, Obama Battles for Second Term Four years ago, Obama was elected 44th president of the United States. The Democratic Party nominated him at a highly charged convention that focused on public disenchantment with the nations struggling ec
Black Conservative Herman Cain Surges in US Presidential Campaign Polls In the past couple of weeks, a man many voters had never heard of until recently surged in public opinion polls about the race for the U.S. Republican presidential nomination. He
By Steve Herman New Delhi 13 November 2009 General Sarath Fonseka (file photo) Sri Lanka's president Friday gave the country's top military figure permission to leave his post immediately, a day after the army general submitted retirement papers to
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: There's high drama in Florida over a prosecutor's decision not to seek the death penalty for an accused cop killer. The governor is involved, taking the unprecedented step of replacing the prosecutor on the case. The decision is
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 21 August 2007 In a sign of a growing rift between Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region and the country's interim government, Puntland's president says he will not recognize a proposed oil law that nullifies any exploration
Bolivian troops have arrested an opposition governor accused of leading attacks that killed at least 15 government supporters. In Miami, VOA's Brian Wagner reports that unrest in Bolivia has prompted U.S. officials to withdraw aid workers from the c
By Barry Newhouse Islamabad 16 November 2007 A caretaker government has been installed in Pakistan to oversee parliamentary elections in January. But as VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad, political opposition parties are dismissing the new
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 14 March 2008 In a fresh sign that militant Muslim fighters in Somalia have adopted tactics used by the al-Qaida terror network, Somalia's radical Islamist Shabab group has beheaded three government soldiers guarding a road nort
BEIJING, Sept. 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Scientists had discovered the fossils of a new species of ancient carnivorous fish, National Geographic reported Monday. The newly-found ancient fish, Laccognathus embryi, is a 1.8-meter-long predator, which was waiti