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By Margaret Besheer Washington 30 September 2006 President Bush is strongly defending his policies in Iraq, as the fallout continues from a U.S. intelligence report that says, in part, the U.S.-led war is creating a new generation of terrorists. The
San Francisco Jury Finds Man Accused Of Killing Kate Steinle Not Guilty Of Murder KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: A jury in San Francisco has found an undocumented immigrant not guilty of murder or manslaughter in the shooting death of a young woman on the city
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Next week, the south side of Chicago gets something it hasn't had in decades - a high-level adult trauma center at the University of Chicago Hospital. Trauma centers treat people with the most acute wounds, including gunshot injuri
Up next, major changes in the U.S. government's immigration policy. DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I just signed two executive orders that will save thousands of lives, millions of jobs, and billions and billions of dollars. AZUZ: One
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 13 July 2006 U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, sought to emphasize the positive when he offered an assessment of the situation in Iraq before a congressional committee Thursday. But he said sectarian violence re
AS IT IS 2014-03-15 Will Crimea Vote to Leave Ukraine and Join Russia? 克里米亚会投票离开乌克兰加入俄罗斯吗? Hello, and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English! Im Christopher Cruise in Washington. Today on the program, we rep
By Tendai Maphosa London 27 March 2008 An independent panel has delivered a harsh rebuke of the British government's treatment of asylum seekers, saying it falls seriously below the standards expected of a humane and civilized society. Tendai Maphosa
By Stephanie Ho Washington 01 October 2006 President Pervez Musharraf Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf is defending a recently-struck deal that critics say provides sanctuary to terrorists. He also voiced support for President Bush's handling o
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 02 May 2006 A relative mourns over the dead body of Azatullah, who died after a suicide attack north of Kabul, Afghanistan, May 2, 2006 A suicide attacker has hit a military
By Al Pessin Guantanamo 01 February 2006 At the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba nearly 500 detainees, most of them captured during the Afghanistan war, await release or trial. M
Yazidi Refugees at Center of Political Fight Between Turkey, Kurds DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY The treatment of thousands of Yazidis refugees who fled to Turkey to escape attacks by Islamic State militants has become the center of a dispute between the Turkis
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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Let us now consider the donkey. They have been beasts of burden for 5,000 years, and they haven't gained much respect over the millennia. In the wild, burro herds are a nuisance. In captivity, they can be mistreated. But no
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Most people go to church with people who look like them. In 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. described Sunday morning as the most segregated hour in Christian America. He called on churches to become more diverse - so far, not a lot of
The same signs appear in young male mammoth tusks, but those living in North America at the end of Ice Age laid down their stress rings three years earlier than usual. In other words, it seems that young males were leaving the herd at an earlier age.
The owls can raise anything from 1 to 12 chicks in a summer season. To survive, their young will have to quickly learn to negotiate the dangers of city life. Longer hunting trips are sometimes necessary as open land disappears. But so long as the cit
By Cindy Saine Washington 21 December 2007 Public opinion polls show the economy, health care and illegal immigration are the domestic issues Americans care about most in the 2008 presidential race. VOA's Cindy Saine takes a look at the various domes
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 09 April 2007 Roots of Peace, a non-profit organization that removes landmines around the world, has an ambitious project in southern Africa. As Sabina Castelfranco reports for VOA from Rome, the organization plans to clea
By Luis Ramirez Jerusalem 08 October 2009 U.S. special envoy for Middle East Peace, George Mitchell is calling for an early re-launch of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. The envoy has begun meetings with officials in Israel and the Palestinian terr
By Purnell Murdock Washington 03 June 2007 US Defense Secretary Robert Gates right, and General Peter Pace, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in Singapore, 03 June 2007 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has cautioned Turkey against sending