By Daniel Schearf Singapore 18 September 2006 The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund open their annual meetings in Singapore Tuesday. At the top of the agenda for two days of talks among the world's finance ministers are debt relief and

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By Daniel Schearf Singapore 19 September 2006 The first day of the annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund have ended in Singapore. Leaders of the two organizations expressed concern that high oil prices, global trade imbal

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By Phuong Tran Dakar 07 January 2007 Portuguese rider Ruben Faria steers his KTM during the 1st stage of the Lisbon-Dakar Rally, 6 Jan 2007 Almost 250 competitors set off Saturday from Lisbon, Portugal in the annual car, motorcycle and truck race th

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By Ray McDonald Washington 12 February 2007 The 49th annual Grammy Award ceremony saw the U.S. recording industry embrace one of its more controversial acts - while at the same time acknowledging the drawing power of a major competitor. VOA's Ray Mc

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By Art Chimes San Francisco 16 February 2007 One of the world's largest annual science conferences has opened in San Francisco. VOA's Art Chimes reports that this year's theme links science and a sustainable world. The head of the group sponsoring th

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 08 October 2007 Sudan's infant malnutrition and mortality rates are among the highest in the world. Wherever international aid agencies operate, they make a difference in saving lives and creating healthier babies. Lisa Schlein

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And let's catch up on some other business news this morning, a couple of bitter business rivals have tried to become a little more compatible. Microsoft has reached an agreement that will allow its Windows Operating system, with which so many of us a

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 25 April 2006 Chernobyl Twenty years after an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine, European countries remain deeply divided over the use of nuclear power

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By Terry FitzPatrick Cape Town 04 June 2008 Urgent action by African governments will be needed to sustain the continent's economic growth. That assessment comes from experts at the World Economic Forum, as more than 800 business leaders gather to d

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Iranian and Russian officials began a test run of Iran's first nuclear plant on Wednesday, after repeated delays in making the plant operational. An Iranian official says the test run was done with computers and uranium was not used. The pilot opera

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State Department officials say a senior U.S. envoy is in Pyongyang, discussing ideas aimed at salvaging the troubled accord under which North Korea would scrap its nuclear program. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs Christopher Hill

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By Steve Herman Tokyo 08 November 2006 Speakers at IAEA seminar pose for group photo at start of two-day meeting in Tokyo Diplomats, bureaucrats and nuclear experts are meeting in Japan to discuss how to strengthen nuclear security in Asian countrie

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By Katherine Cole Washington 07 May 2007 More than 80,000 people recently attended the 20th annual Merlefest in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, April 26-29, making the four-day event the largest music festival in the southeastern United States. That's qu

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By Gary Thomas Tehran 19 July 2006 Iran has not responded to a European offer of incentives designed to induce it to give up any nuclear weapons ambitions. Iranian officials have said Iran will give its answer by the end of August, but the West has

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