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By Paula Wolfson White House 01 January 2006 President Bush began the new year by visiting with U.S. soldiers who were injured in Iraq or Afghanistan. Mr. Bush ended a holiday stay in his home state o
By Lisa Bryant Paris 26 January 2006 Muslim leaders attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, expressed qualified acceptance Thursday of Hamas' sweeping victory in the Palestinian elec
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 23 May 2007 Palestinian civilians from a besieged refugee camp in north Lebanon have been fleeing in vast numbers since a shaky ceasefire took hold late Tuesday. VOA Correspondent Challiss McDonough has more from our Middl
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 19 March 2007 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has praised a five-year old Saudi Arabian peace proposal as a pillar in the search for Middle East peace. The Saudi plan is to be discussedlater this month at an Arab s
By Doug Levine Washington 01 October 2006 Jazzman Duke Ellington had millions of fans around the world, but perhaps his most-loyal audience was in his hometown, Washington, D.C. Duke's legacy lives on in Washington with the 2nd Annual Duke Ellington
By Tendai Maphosa Harare 23 October 2006 A Zimbabwean government minister reportedly lost thousands of dollars he had put down as part payment on a U.S. transaction through a local company. The U.S. government allegedly seized the money as a result
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
Imams and rabbis from around the world have wrapped up a three-day meeting in Paris aimed at finding ways to promote peace in the Middle East and work more closely together. French Jewish and Muslim leaders attend a demonstration in Paris, 14 Dec 20
On New Year's Day France hands over the rotating European Union presidency to the Czech Republic, ending one of the most eventful six-month tenures ever as head of the 27-member bloc. Nicolas Sarkozy (file) French President Nicolas Sarkozy is known
European leaders agreed to a common platform to combat the global financial crisis that includes oversight of all financial markets and products around the world. The proposed measures were drafted in Berlin in preparation for a key meeting of the w
Cambodia Tensions Escalate Amid Protest Ban 柬埔寨紧张局势升级之际抗议禁令 PHNOM PENH Cambodia has banned anti-government demonstrators from holding protests after last weeks deadly clashes with police that left four people dead. But a
By David Gollust Washington 05 March 2007 U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill Senior U.S. and North Korean diplomats have begun landmark talks in New York on normalizing relations as part of the agreement under which Pyongyang has agr
By Robert Raffaele Washington, D.C. 13 June 2007 U.S. lawmakers got the chance to question the man who recently led the multi-national force in charge of training Iraq's new security and police forces. U.S. Army Lieutenant General Martin Dempsey told
By Meredith Buel Washington 13 April 2007 Former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn has dedicated much of his career to reducing global threats from weapons of mass destruction. He is currently the co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a private group wor
By Parke Brewer Berlin 10 July 2006 Italy is the 2006 World Cup football champion after defeating France in a penalty kick shootout, 5-3. Italian defender, capitan Fabio Cannavaro, surrounded by teammates, holds up World Cup trophy They played with
The United States and Libya Thursday signed an agreement in Tripoli, designed to settle all remaining U.S. compensation claims from Libyan-sponsored acts of terrorism in the 1980s. Lingering claims disputes have been blocking the full normalization
By Phuong Tran Northern Niger 25 February 2008 In West Africa, Niger's ethnic Tuareg fighters have periodically led attacks for almost two decades against the government, demanding more autonomy and a greater share of uranium mining revenues in the d
Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders have met in Nicosia to lay the foundation for resuming reunification talks to try and end the 34-year division of the Mediterranean island. This new peace drive, backed by the U.N., is seen by many observers as the
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 13 December 2006 Heads of state and other representatives from 11 African countries are gathering in Kenya's capital this week for their Great Lakes conference. The leaders are expected to sign a pact that sets out plans to
By Alan Boswell Nairobi 13 October 2009 Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki opened a pan-African summit in Nairobi designed to produce a unified African position for global climate change talks in Copenhagen this December. The Kenyan head of state told the