By Lisa Schlein Geneva 30 September 2007 The World Heart Federation says heart disease and stroke are the world's largest killers, claiming 17.5 million lives a year. Marking World Heart Day, the Federation says knowing the risk factors and leading a

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 28 February 2007 The World Health Organization held Wednesday a meeting in Geneva to devise strategies aimed at finishing the job of eradicating polio worldwide. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from WHO headquarters in Geneva tha

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By Sabina Castelfranco Munich 12 September 2006 Addressing academics at the university of Regensburg where he taught before being posted to the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI spoke of Islam and violence. At a morning mass, he rejected the use of God's n

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 31 January 2006 Lines are snaking out the door of the U.S. Consulate in Paris, as would-be French travelers to America wait to get newly required visas. The problem: the French go

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Faiza Elmasry | Washington, DC 29 March 2010 Cell biologist Elaine Fuchs is known for revolutionizing the study of skin and for her support of women in science. Children, Elaine Fuchs says, have a natural fascination with science. She remembers that

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Violence Forces Burmese Muslims Out of Kyaukphyu Little is left of this once vibrant Muslim fishing village. A month after fires leveled the community, those who once lived here are now part of the more than 100,000 displaced in Rakhine state still t

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 31 October 2007 The Pentagon says it is trying to provide Turkey with the kind of intelligence about insurgents of the Kurdistan Workers Party that would enable the Turkish military to take action against them. VOA's Al Pessin r

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By Brian Wagner Miami 06 April 2007 The leaders of Cuba and Venezuela, are criticizing President Bush's recent call to increase biofuel production, because of what they say is the potential impact on food supplies beyond U.S. borders. VOA's Brian Wag

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 24 May 2006 An international press-freedom organization accuses the Ethiopian government of blocking personal Internet Web sites known as blogs that are critical of the government, a charge the authorities deny. Paris-based

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By Marissa Melton Washington 31 January 2007 watch Sean Maroney's report The International Organization for Migration reports Tuesday that increasing violence in Iraq is forcing more and more people to leave their homes while funding to help them is

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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

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 01 February 2008 Microsoft has offered to pay nearly $45 billion to buy Yahoo, the Internet search engine. Mike O'Sullivan reports, the software giant's bid is a challenge to Google, which dominates the online advertisi

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By Brian Wagner Caracas 07 January 2008 Venezuela has launched a new currency aimed, in part, at curbing high inflation rates in the oil-producing nation. Prices have risen in Venezuela due to soaring consumer demand, creating shortages of milk, suga

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Australia's bold plans for a carbon emissions trading scheme are under threat after the conservative opposition in Canberra hardened its stance against it. Critics of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's proposal say it would cost jobs and provoke economic u

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By Jim Malone Washington 11 July 2006 Opposition Democrats hope to seize control of one or both chambers of the U.S. Congress in the November mid-term elections, in large part because of voter dismay over the situation in Iraq. In the first of a two

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By Jim Malone Des Moines 03 January 2008 After more than a year of speeches, rallies and campaign promises, voters in the midwestern U.S. state of Iowa will have the first say Thursday in the 2008 race for the presidency. VOA national correspondent J

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A string of kidnappings and targeted killings of aid workers in Somalia in recent weeks has prompted some international and local agencies to suspend operations in Mogadishu and in other parts of the south. As VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu reports fr

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United Nations aid agencies have begun the first of three interagency missions to areas affected by violence in Kenya this week. The aim of these missions is to get an accurate assessment of the needs of hundreds of thousands of people displaced by p

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By Sarah Simpson Kano 11 April 2007 Lawal Manesara, left, discuss with Ali Usman, centre, and sani Bako, right, all polio victims in a street of Lagos, Nigeria, 4 May 2005 Many polio victims in the northern Nigerian city, Kano, have turned their back

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Nelly: Look at that couple over there. What theyre doing is indecent! Sadat: Where? Oh, you mean those two people hugging and kissing? Thats not indecent. Nelly: Theyre not just hugging and kissing. That girl is sitting on her boyfriends lap and they

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