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By Mil Arcega Washington 31 May 2007 The State of California is delaying the sale of more than five billion dollars in forgotten and unclaimed assets. A property rights group is suing the state, claiming it has not tried hard enough to find the legal
By Challiss McDonough Aaitit, Lebanon 31 July 2006 After talks between the American secretary of state and the Israeli prime minister, Israel has halted air strikes in south Lebanon for 48 hours. Israel says it is working with the United Nations to
American Middle East envoy George Mitchell said Tuesday he thinks the U.S.-brokered direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are moving in the right direction overall. Mitchell spoke after a three-way U.S.-Palestinian-Israeli meeting in the Egyptian Re
President Obama has described as a positive sign BP's statement that oil has, at least temporarily, stopped leaking into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon well site. President commented briefly on the issue after returning from a visit to
By Michael Bowman Lima 09 April 2006 Electoral workers carry voting boxes to a poll station in Lima, Saturday, April 8, 2006 Peruvians head to the polls Sunday for presidential and legislative electio
By David Gollust State Department 26 April 2007 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Thursday dismissed as ludicrous Russian concerns that a U.S. missile defense plan for Europe would threaten Moscow's nuclear deterrent. Russian President Vladimi
By Paula Wolfson White House 05 July 2006 U.S. officials say North Korea has test fired at least six missiles, including a long-range missile that failed shortly after launch. High level consultations are underway. -------- White House officials cal
By David McAlary Washington 29 August 2006 The Mobile Launcher Platform sits on the crawlerway near the Space Shuttle Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida A drop in storm intensity has caused the U.S. space agency NASA to
By Lisa McAdams Moscow 20 February 2006 Russian and Iranian negotiators are holding talks in Moscow on a Russian compromise that is seen as a last chance to spare Iran from being called before the U.N
By Lisa McAdams Moscow 21 February 2006 Russian and Iranian officials are discounting reports of failure after two days of talks in Moscow ended without Iran accepting a Russian compromise proposal. T
By Teri Schultz Brussels 24 January 2007 The United Nations new secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon, is on his first foreign trip since taking the post. Speaking in Brussels after meeting European Union officials, he showed support for a campaign to ban t
By Greg Flakus Houston 18 June 2008 President Bush and Republican presidential candidate John McCain are both calling for an end to a moratorium on developing oil and natural gas resources along much of the U.S. coastline. Democratic presidential ca
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Public health officials are increasingly worried about a strain of bird flu virus that's circulating in China. In the last nine months it's sickened more than 700 people, and about 40 percent of them died. Now a team of researche
Middle East peace talks remain in crisis after a decision by the Palestinian leadership. 在巴勒斯坦领导层就定居点问题做出回应决定之后,中东和谈依然面临危机。 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gathered leaders of th
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 14 June 2006 West African leaders are meeting in Nigeria to ratify a draft convention to control the proliferation of small arms in the region. The agreement is being hailed as a breakthrough for a turbulent region. -------
By Peta Thornycroft Harare 08 February 2006 Zimbabwe's commercial farmers union has asked the government to issue orders to halt land seizures and work out a way to restore agricultural activity. The
By David Gollust State Department 18 January 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is dismissing an Iranian overture for renewed talks with Europe without substantive action by Tehran to ease world
By Barbara Schoetzau New York 10 February 2006 Kofi Annan U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is urging Iran to suspend its nuclear activity and allow talks with Russia to move forward. ----------------
By Lisa Bryant Paris 24 October 2007 France is hosting a high-level environmental summit Wednesday and Thursday, aimed to turn the country from laggard to leader in the fight against global warming and pollution. From Paris, Lisa Bryant reports the s
By Cindy Saine Washington 16 April 2008 The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the most common method of lethal injection used for executions by the federal government and 36 states. The unsuccessful constitutional challenge to the three-drug lethal injec