US Troops Clear Highway for Pullout from Iraq All U.S. combat troops will be out of Iraq by the end of the month. The road south to Kuwait has been a hotbed of anti-American violence, roadside bombs and assaults by insurgents. Teams like Minnesota's

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A passenger is seen during a strike at the Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos in Spata, 11 Mar 2010 Greek riot police clashed with demonstrators again on Thursday, as tens of thousands of striking workers marched to protest government

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Many people in South Asia are assessing the results of the U.S. midterm elections. The opposition Republicans have taken control of the U.S. House of Representatives from President Barack Obama's Democratic Party and analysts in Pakistan say that cou

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Missile Defense System Keeps Watch on Syria U.S. soldiers are maintaining Patriot Missiles. Since January, the missiles have been stationed at a Turkish military base outside Gaziantep. The city is 50 kilometers from Syria, where an an increasingly b

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Syrian Rebels Welcome Arms Pledges Bab al-Salama camp near Syria's border with Turkey. Abdulhamid Assad arrived from Aleppo several months ago with his extended family of fighters with the Syrian rebels. They fled because they ran out of bullets. Ass

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By Cindy Saine Washington 02 October 2007 The U.S. commander of the multi-national corps in Iraq says violence in the country has decreased consistently over the past three months. As VOA's Cindy Saine reports from Washington, Lieutenant General Raym

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The Challenges Trump Will Face In Confronting Radical Islam RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Donald Trump has said that the number-one threat facing the United States is the following. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) DONALD TRUMP: Radical Islamic terrorism. MA

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Now, if you were watching men's singles 50 years ago, you would have seen Arthur Ashe become the only African-American man to win the U.S. Open. Karen Grigsby Bates of our Code Switch team reports on a player who grew much larger

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Senate plans a different sort of summer. Instead of going home this August, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell canceled the recess, says he wants to approve more of President Trump's judicial nominees, who face Democratic

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Hello, I am Neil Nunes with the BBC news. North Korea has said that it has for the first time successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. The announcement was made on state television. It came hours after a tremor with a magnitude of 5.1 was detected near a

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June 25th , 1950 In Asia, war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula as forces from the communist North invade the non-communist South. United States soon joins the fighting on the side of South Korea. President Harry Truman: Korea is a small county, tho

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March 29th, 1951 - In New York, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. They die in the electric chair two years later, the first American civilians to be executed fo

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July 7th, 2005 I just heard the bang. I looked around, the whole top of the bus and the back of it just came off.In London, suicide terrorist bombings strike three underground stations and a double decker bus. The blasts kill 52 victims and 4 bombers

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June 25th 1950 In Asia, war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula as forces from the communist North invade the non-communist South. United States soon joins the fighting on the side of South Korea. President Harry Truman: Korea is a small county, thous

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July 9th 1896You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.In Chicago, William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech at the Democratic national convention. The speech clinches the Democratic presidential nomination for Bryan but he lo

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July 7th, 2005 I just heard the bang. I looked around, the whole top of the bus and the back of it just came off.In London, suicide terrorist bombings strike three underground stations and a double decker bus. The blasts kill 52 victims and 4 bombers

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June 25th 1950 In Asia, war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula as forces from the communist North invade the non-communist South. United States soon joins the fighting on the side of South Korea. President Harry Truman: Korea is a small county, thous

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March 29th, 1951, In New York, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. They die in the electric chair two years later, the first American civilians to be executed for

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July 9th 1896You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.In Chicago, William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech at the Democratic national convention. The speech clinches the Democratic presidential nomination for Bryan but he lo

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July 7th, 2005 I just heard the bang. I looked around, the whole top of the bus and the back of it just came off.In London, suicide terrorist bombings strike three underground stations and a double decker bus. The blasts kill 52 victims and 4 bombers

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