For much of its brief existence, South Sudan has been has been mired in a civil war, a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and forced some 4 million to flee their homes, creating Africa's worst refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan g

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday reconciliation efforts between the main Palestinian factions will not mean progress for the region unless Hamas accepts international terms for peace talks with Israel. Clinton spoke to VOA in advance o

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Hundreds more Chileans are confirmed dead from one of the worst earthquakes ever in the South American country. Today, President Michelle Bachelet said the death toll had pushed up to 708 across central

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Raum. The British Foreign Office is urging Britons in Syria to leave that country immediately. The warning comes as violence escalates between anti-government protesters and Syrian security forces. Larry Miller r

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Art Lovers Get Chance to Buy Long-Lost Nigerian Painting A painting of a Nigerian princess that was lost for more than 40 years has been found in England. It will be sold at the end of February. Nigerias best-known modern artist, Ben Enwonwu, painted

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By Phillip Wellman Abidjan 04 November 2007 Sunday marks eight months since Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo signed a peace deal with rebel leader Guillaume Soro, now prime minister. The agreement, which followed a brief civil war, is proceeding

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By Scott Bobb Nairobi 25 February 2008 In Kenya, government and opposition officials have resumed talks on the country's political crisis. As VOA's Scott Bobb reports from Nairobi, the talks were suspended after several hours so the two sides could h

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By Jocelyn Ford Banda Aceh 19 December 2006 An Acehnese woman casts her ballot at a polling station, 11 Dec 2006 The Indonesian province of Aceh this month held its first direct elections for key officials, a landmark vote intended to cement a peace

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AS IT IS 2015-12-03 Aung San Suu Kyi Holds Talks with Myanmars President 昂山素季会见缅甸总统 Myanmars opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi held talks Wednesday with President Thein Sein. The two discussed a smooth and peaceful transfer of po

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By David Gollust State Department 26 June 2007 The United States Tuesday urged Somalia's transitional federal government to reach out as broadly as possible to clans and other factions for the national reconciliation conference planned for mid-July.

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By Margaret Besheer Washington 26 May 2006 Tony Blair (file photo) British Prime Minister Tony Blair says, now should be a moment for reconciliation, not only in Iraq, but in the international community as well. In a speech Friday at Georgetown Univ

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By Leslie Neuhaus Addis Ababa 30 January 2007 Somalia's president agreed Tuesday to a national reconciliation conference to try to end 16 years of fighting in the war-ravaged country. As Les Neuhaus in Addis Ababa reports for VOA, the announcement p

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Ukraine's New Government to Work on Economy, Reconciliation 乌克兰新政府面对经济与和解重任 WASHINGTON Ukraine's parliament voted to approve the country's new leadership Thursday, amid protests by some who believe the government is bein

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JUDY WOODRUFF: The death of Nelson Mandela resonated across South Africa and around the world today. Millions mourned the former president and symbol of racial reconciliation. And officials planned a mass memorial service on Tuesday. We begin our cov

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By Scott Bobb Nairobi 22 February 2008 Parties to the Kenya reconciliation talks held a series of meetings Friday aimed at bringing the two sides closer on the issue of power-sharing which has been the biggest obstacle to date. The opposition repeate

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By Sonja Pace Damascus 05 February 2007 Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, right, and Khaled Mashaal, in Damascus, Syria (File photo - 21 Jan 2007) Exiled Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal is to meet Tuesday with Palestinian President Mahmoud

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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has made his first public remarks since political opponents announced their intention to impeach him. In a televised speech marking Pakistan's 61st independence anniversary, the president called for political re

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CAIRO, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi held Thursday a meeting here with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas to discuss means of enforcing internal-Palestinian reconciliation, state-run MENA news agency reported, citing a st

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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is calling for reconciliation with former Saddam Hussein supporters, during a tribal reconciliation conference in Baghdad. Those adversaries who stand in the way of cooperation, he says, must be eliminated. Nouri

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Chapter 24 第二十四章 Shortly before Christmas Dirk Stroeve came to ask me to spend the holiday with him. 圣诞节前不久,戴尔克施特略夫来邀请我同他们一起过节。 He had a characteristic sentimentality about the day and wan

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