By Mandy Clark London 30 April 2007 Prime Minister Tony Blair took office 10 years ago, and as leader of Britain's Labour Party fashioned a political marriage with America's top Democrat, U.S. President Bill Clinton. But when a less ideologically com

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 02 May 2006 On the eve of World Press Freedom Day, Ethiopian journalists and others in Kenya are calling for the Ethiopian government to release more than a dozen journalists

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By Gary Thomas Washington 27 September 2006 The leak to American newspapers of a secret National Intelligence Estimate on terrorism prompted President Bush to make public portions of the estimate itself. The NIE, as it is known, is the product of co

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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

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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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《只是给我一个理由》(Just Give Me a Reason),是当红美国流行摇滚歌手P!nk于2012年底至2013年初这一时段发行的单曲。 最早这首歌是P!nk的独唱。然而写成之后,她认为,歌曲本身更像是一个对话

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By Jeff Swicord Washington, DC 08 December 2006 watch Human Rights Day In 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Since that day, December 10 has marked World Human Rights Day. This year, the Unite

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By Jim Malone Washington 26 April 2007 The divisive issue of abortion is likely to be a major point of debate in next year's U.S. presidential election, thanks to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court. VOA National correspondent Jim Malone reports fro

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By Jim Malone Washington 23 May 2007 Democrats in Congress backed down this week from their long-standing demand to set a date for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. In the short term, the decision is a political setback for Democrats and a vic

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 23 January 2007 On the eve of his State of the Union Address, President Bush faces new resistance and other pressures from Congress to his plan to send more than 21,000 additional troops to Iraq. A new non-binding biparti

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North Korea says even minor attempts by South Korea or the United States to interfere with its shipping will trigger what it calls a return to a state of war. Pyongyang vows it will not be bound by the terms of a 56-year-old armistice, if South Kore

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Assad Family Grip on Syria Hampers Reform Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown on anti-government protesters has been leavened with at least verbal concessions to reform. But given the history of the country, the government and his family, so

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Russians Protest Corruption, a Hot Election Year Issue Two anti-corruption rallies were held Saturday afternoon in Moscow. Russians turned out on a sunny Saturday afternoon in Moscow for two rival protests against corruption, the top issue on voters

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Iran Talks Leave Issues Unresolved The delegates gathered in Kazakhstan amid hopes they would build on the upbeat atmosphere of the last round of talks there in February. Some believed there was a chance of agreement on first steps toward ending the

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South China Sea Nations Vary in Approaches to Press Claims Beijing says its live-fire exercises in the South China Sea are meant to defend against naval and air attacks in the contested waters. But Vietnam says those Chinese patrols endanger navigati

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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

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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

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Not My Job: Chef Marcus Samuelsson Gets Quizzed On Muppets play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0009:49repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugi

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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

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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

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