By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 31 October 2007 In the Kenyan capital Nairobi lives a priest named Father Ed Phillips. For the past 14 years, Phillips has tended to the sick in one of the world's largest slums and conducted groundbreaking, but unheralded, re

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By Phuong Tran Dakar 23 January 2007 Union leaders in Guinea say they will pursue their strike, despite deadly violence that killed more than 20 people and injured dozens on Monday. But human-rights activists and aid workers are alarmed at condition

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VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, People in America. Today, we tell about one of America's greatest jazz musicians, Charlie Parker. He influenced the direction of jazz music during

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By Peter Heinlein Washignton 15 September 2006 George Clooney (left) and Elie Wiesel Actor George Clooney and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel have met with the U.N. Security Council to plead for prompt action to save lives in Darfur. The Oscar-winning fi

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