The Russia-Georgia conflict has put Turkey in a tight spot. Will Turkey side with the United States, its NATO ally, and let more U.S. military ships into the Black Sea to assist Georgia? Or will it choose Russia which also shares a Black Sea coast w

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Africa's top peace and security body will hold a special heads-of-state level meeting on Zimbabwe during a continental summit this weekend in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. From the summit site, VOA's Peter Heinlein reports leaders are to c

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Diplomatic activity aimed at ending the violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is intensifying. The United Nations mediator for eastern Congo, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, arrived Thursday in Kinshasa for talks with Congole

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By Aya Batrawy Cairo 18 April 2008 Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has sparked an outcry of protest from Israeli and American officials for his decision to meet with Hamas leaders during a week-long visit to the Middle East. Although he received a

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By Teri Schultz Brussels 23 June 2007 After an all-night round of negotiations, leaders of the European Union agreed early Saturday morning on the basic outline of a new treaty reforming EU rules and institutions. The agreement is considered another

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By Steve Herman New Delhi 27 September 2007 Efforts are continuing in Nepal to break a political impasse that would bring the former rebel Maoists back into the interim government and allow November elections to be held on schedule. VOA Correspondent

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 26 April 2006 Majzoub Al-Khalifa, head of the Sudanese government's delegation (center) Warring parties from Western Sudan's devastated Darfur region and government represent

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By Peter Heinlein United Nations 26 March 2007 The U.N. mediator for Kosovo has recommended independence for the breakaway Serbian province. From U.N. headquarters, correspondent Peter Heinlein reports Serbian officials called the decision unacceptab

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 25 March 2007 The Secretary-General of the United Nations has arrived in Israel for separate talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, the Middle East peace process an

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President Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai, the founding president of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change have signed an agreement on the framework for formal talks. VOA's Delia Robertson reports from our southern Africa bureau in Johan

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Pakistan's president has signed a controversial agreement approving Islamic courts in part of the country's troubled northwest. While lawmakers supported the measure in a unanimous vote, there are concerns it allows the Taliban to expand its influen

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A Sudanese government spokesman said that Khartoum will reciprocate a move this weekend by a major Darfur rebel group to release 60 prisoners of war. Discussions between the rebel Justice and Equality Movement group and the Sudanese government have

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Assad Focuses on Fighting Terrorism, Not Power-Sharing, at Talks WASHINGTON Syrian peace talks are scheduled to start Wednesday in Switzerland, nearly three years after the start of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. The government in Da

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 18 October 2006 South African President Thabo Mbeki says he has relinquished his role as mediator in the Ivory Coast political crisis. The announcement came at a meeting of top African Union officials in Ethiopia. ----- Th

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 03 May 2006 Senior Western and African diplomats have intensified their mediation at the deadlocked Darfur talks in Abuja. Darfur's two main rebel groups, the SLM and JEM, ha

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 04 May 2006 Western and African diplomats are racing against time to strike a deal that will end what has been described as the worst humanitarian crisis in Sudan's Darfur. T

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By Scott Bobb Nairobi 28 February 2008 The heads of the government and opposition in Kenya have signed a power sharing agreement aimed at ending the crisis over December's disputed elections. VOA's Scott Bobb reports from Nairobi that the agreement w

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Delegates from Zimbabwe's main political parties are meeting in Pretoria, South Africa to discuss future negotiations toward ending the crisis in Zimbabwe. VOA's Delia Robertson reports from our southern Africa bureau in Johannesburg. Zimbabwe's Pre

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By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 03 July 2007 Pakistani security forces have exchanged gunfire with hundreds of students holed up inside a radical mosque in central Islamabad. Officials have confirmed six deaths, including security personnel and students,

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South Africa's new government has asked former president Thabo Mbeki on Thursday to continue as the region's mediator in Zimbabwe's political crisis despite his ousting as president. But, as Peta Thornycroft reports, Zimbabwean President Robert Muga

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