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By Jordan Davis Dakar 31 December 2006 Senegalese officials say they are investigating the killing of a top politician El-Hadj Oumar Lamine Badji (File photo) in the country's southern Casamance region. Separatist groups in Casamance have waged a tw
By Noel King Khartoum 05 September 2006 A showdown is brewing between the Sudanese government and the African Union force monitoring the war-torn Darfur region. The African Union Peace and Security Council voted, re-iterated a March 10 vote on Monda
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
Hunger and Obesity Are Food Security Issues The U.N. says nearly a billion people go to bed hungry every night. At the same time, hundreds of millions of others are obese. An activist and author says solving those twin crises depends on knowing whos
By Kurt Achin Seoul 10 February 2007 The chief U.S. envoy to six-nation talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons capability says delegates are going to keep working to resolve a single issue blocking a deal. VOA's Kurt Achin has more from
A senior State Department official says Pakistan has given the United States assurances that nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan - released from five years of house arrest last week for selling nuclear secrets - will no longer pose a proliferation risk. U.S
By Jordan Davis Dakar 02 January 2007 Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade attended funeral services Tuesday for a close political ally assassinated earlier this week in the Casamance region of the country. Violence in Casamance has persisted despite
By Simon Marks Turkey-Iraq border 18 April 2007 Fears are growing that Turkey may take unilateral military action in northern Iraq against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, the PKK, whose fighters have been staging cross-border attacks. Turkey's
By Al Pessin Pentagon 31 October 2006 The U.S. Defense Department is taking a new approach in its battle against Islamist militants around the world - it is moving to expand its press operation. Officials say the goals are to counter terrorist propa
Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh is threatening to track down Islamic militants and arrest them inside their houses, following a crackdown, yesterday, in which at least 25 alleged suspects in Wednesday's attack on the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa were d
By Jim Malone Washington 17 August 2006 The ethical and moral debate over expanding embryonic stem cell research could motivate voters on both sides of the issue in this year's U.S. congressional elections. Color-enhanced stemcell from bonemarrow Em
North and South Sudan Friday marked the fourth anniversary of the signing of a peace agreement that ended Africa's longest-running civil war. But core issues remain unresolved and analysts say an external pressure not related to the accord is threat
Auto Industry Recovery Key Issue for Michigan Voters On the floor of auto shows across the country, the prevailing theme is that U.S. auto companies, headquartered in Detroit, are back and as competitive as ever. Its not back, its always been here, s
By Lisa McAdams St. Peterburg 16 July 2006 G8 Summit in St.Petersburg, Russia, July 16, 2006 Group-of-Eight foreign ministers opened their meeting at the G-8 summit by discussing host country Russia's Number-One agenda item, energy security. Meanwhi
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now we're going to remember a man who set a standard for movie trailers and commercials. His name was Alan Bleviss. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ALAN BLEVISS: Sex, Lies And Videotape. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) A. BLEVI
By Jim Malone Washington 01 November 2006 With less than one week to go until Election Day, Republicans are trying to fend off a strong challenge from opposition Democrats for control of the U.S. Congress. The war in Iraq continues to dominate the U
By David Gollust State Department 04 April 2007 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pledged continued U.S. political and economic support for Haiti at a meeting Wednesday with the impoverished Caribbean country's prime minister, Jacques-Edouard Alexi
By Kane Farabaugh New York, New York 16 January 2007 watch Ban Ki moon report New UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gives a news conference at UN headquarters, 2 Jan 2007 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is beginning his five-year term as leader of
For 17 months, until he left the job in September 2007, Tony Snow was the White House press secretary, the voice of the Bush administration. Now, he is being remembered and mourned by the president he served, and the reporters who sparred with him i
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 20 June 2007 The South African government has made what it says is a final offer to end a 20-day old strike by civil servants. Both sides agreed to disregard a Wednesday deadline, and postponed until Friday further talks ai