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Education Report - Using Art to Make Summer School More Interesting This is the VOA Special English Education Report. June, July and August are vacation months for most American school children. But some young students pay a high price for that long
By Margaret Besheer Baghdad 24 December 2006 In Iraq, American troops have many missions. At the American Forces Network headquarters in Baghdad's Green Zone, broadcasters and disc jockey soldiers are helping to keep America's 140,000 troops across
By Lisa McAdams Moscow 16 August 2006 Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and his Russian counterpart, Mikhail Fradkov, say they have reached agreement on the price Kiev will pay Moscow for natural gas. But the two leaders failed to secure te
After steadily cutting interest rates for much of the past year, the U.S. central bank has decided to keep them unchanged, while signaling concerns about inflation that could trigger interest rate hikes in the future. VOA's Michael Bowman reports fr
By Gary Thomas Washington 27 February 2007 The top U.S. intelligence officer says Pakistan could make more energetic anti-terrorist efforts along the Afghan border. But, he adds, Pakistan's military ruler has political concerns in an election year.
By Gary Thomas Washington 02 February 2007 A new U.S. intelligence estimate says that the chaotic situation in Iraq could deteriorate further unless the warring sectarian parties compromise. But it says that the current political climate makes such
By Al Pessin Washington 01 September 2006 The U.S. Defense Department says it conducted a successful test of its land-based ballistic missile defense system on Friday. Officials say a missile launched from California intercepted a target missile fro
By Steve Herman New Delhi 29 May 2007 Refugees in Nepal trying to make their way back home to Bhutan via India have clashed with Indian border troops. Casualties are reported on both sides after Indian forces opened fire. VOA's Steve Herman reports f
Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is expected to meet with top U.S. officials in Washington this week, including President George Bush. His visit comes during new tensions among Afghan, Pakistani and U.S. officials over how to counter a g
Australia's Muslim leaders have opened their mosques and schools to house Roman Catholic pilgrims for World Youth Day as part of efforts to ease interfaith tensions. The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils is also planning mixed-faith sporting
State Department officials are acknowledging an internal debate over whether the United States should open a diplomatic interests section in Tehran. Iran said Tuesday it would consider a request from the United States to open a diplomatic presence.
Pakistan's president and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown have pledged to increase counter-terrorism cooperation following the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Mr. Brown arrived after another tense diplomatic exchange between the region's nuclear-armed
India Holds Interest Rates Steady Amid Economic Slowdown As India struggles with an economic slowdown, the central bank has decided to hold interest rates steady. A series of aggressive rate hikes in the last 18 months have been partly blamed for dam
By Alisha Ryu Baidoa, Somalia 04 July 2006 Somalia's interim government in Baidoa says it will send a senior-level delegation to the capital Mogadishu in the coming days to meet with Islamic leaders, ahead of a second round of peace talks on July 15
By Stephanie Ho Washington 08 March 2006 The government of Uzbekistan is cracking down against Western organizations in the country in what some regional analysts see as a backlash against the United
By Efam Dovi Accra 12 December 2006 Africans escaping rural poverty, in search of better lives in urban areas, are being forced to live in very difficult conditions. As cities struggle to cope with the influx, the majority are left without water, sa
By Paula Wolfson White House 01 March 2007 U.S. intelligence officials say they stand by their assessment that North Korea was pursuing uranium enrichment in 2002. VOA White House Correspondent Paula Wolfson reports. Once again, the Bush administrati
President Barack Obama announces James Clapper as his choice to oversee the nation's 16 spy agencies as director of national intelligence, 05 Jun 2010 U.S. President Barack Obama has chosen the Defense Department's head of intelligence to oversee the
By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 04 January 2007 In the post-Islamist Somali capital Mogadishu, a deadline for the city's militias and residents to voluntarily hand in their weapons has been largely ignored. As VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu reports from Mogad
By Tendai Maphosa London 12 June 2008 A senior intelligence official has been suspended following discovery that confidential documents related to Iraq and the activities of al-Qaida were left on a passenger train. The documents were were later hand