By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 11 January 2006 Officials collect chickens in October to fight an outbreak of avian flu in Kiziksa village, in western Turkey The U.N. food and agriculture agency is warnin

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There was tight security in Jerusalem for the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Robert Berger filed this VOA report from the Old City of Jerusalem. Palestinian Muslim worshippers pray during the first Friday prayers of the ho

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By David McAlary Washington 14 September 2006 The International Space Station has spread a new pair of golden wings. They are solar panels that will double the amount of power available to the outpost. Unfurling them took longer than expected becaus

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 21 May 2007 The World Health Assembly is considering a Global Action Plan Against Cancer that emphasizes prevention as the best cure. The World Health Organization reports cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, with more

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South Africa's parliament has elected African National Congress deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe as the third post-apartheid president of the country. VOA's Delia Robertson reports from our Johannesburg bureau, the new president made it clear he d

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By Michael Bowman Washington 22 March 2007 U.S. officials say the reconstruction of Iraq is moving forward and improving despite severe problems that have hampered many projects since Saddam Hussein was removed from power in 2003. VOA's Michael Bowma

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By Paula Wolfson White House 01 June 2006 President Bush is urging members of the U.S. Congress to overcome their differences and pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill. The president acknowledg

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Italian officials are pressing for steps to prevent a repeat of the tragedy involving hundreds of migrants from Africa who are missing and believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean over the weekend. The migrants were cramped in un-seaworthy vess

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Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika has been inaugurated for a second term following his landslide victory in the country's presidential poll. He also led his party to victory in the parliamentary election. Malawis Bingu wa Mutharika takes oath of

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By Mike O'Sullivan San Diego, California 21 October 2009 Immigrant and minority students in the United States often face obstacles getting into college. To help them, California teacher Mary Catherine Swanson started a program that has expanded to m

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By Greg Flakus Houston 06 September 2006 Now that the Mexican electoral tribunal has declared Felipe Calderon president-elect, the path should be clear for him to begin forging a new government to tackle his country's many problems. But losing candi

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By Leta Hong Fincher Washington, D.C. 06 February 2007 watch Depression report Postpartum depression affects about 15 percent of women in the weeks and months after giving birth. As Leta Hong Fincher reports, some health professionals and advocates

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By Brian Padden Turin, Italy 15 February 2006 watch Olympic Sponsors report Visibility for CocaCola, one of the corporate sponsors of the Olympics Much of the over $4 billion in revenue taken in by th

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By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 25 November 2007 Malaysian police broke up a protest against discrimination by 10,000 ethnic Indians. As VOA's Heda Bayron reports from our Asia News Center in Hong Kong, this is the latest protest to fray Malaysia's tightly

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By Paul Sisco Washington 11 July 2007 The world's largest particle physics laboratory is under construction on the border between Switzerland and France. At the heart is the Large Hadron Collider Particle Accelerator being built by the European Organ

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In South Africa, battle lines have firmed and campaigning is heating up for national elections in two months. South Africa moved a step closer Monday to national elections as political parties registered their candidates with the Independent Elector

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At least 500,000 Liberians are affected by a plague of caterpillars that is destroying crops, polluting drinking water and spreading to neighboring Guinea. Aryworm At least 100 villages are affected in Liberia's richest agricultural region near the

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By Greg Flakus Prescott, Arizona 03 November 2006 watch Forest Fire Prevention In the western United States this year nearly four million hectares of land have been scorched by fire, in the worst wildfire season on record. Twenty-one firefighters ha

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By Meredith Buel Islamabad 14 February 2008 Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is pledging that next week's parliamentary elections will be free, fair, transparent and peaceful. During a speech in Islamabad, Mr. Musharraf denied allegations the vot

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By Michael Bowman Washington 09 December 2007 Pakistan's President is again promising that next month's elections will be free and fair, as efforts by opposition parties to present a united front appear to have crumbled. From Washington, VOA's Michae

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