Italy agreed to pay Libya $5 billion as compensation for its 30-year occupation of the country during the 20th century. The money will be invested by Italy over a 25-year period. For VOA, Sabina Castelfranco reports from Rome. Italian Prime Minister

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By Peta Thornycroft 12 March 2008 President Robert Mugabe says he has given teachers and other government workers large pay raises before national elections on March 29. Peta Thornycroft reports for VOA that the army has its pay boosted by at least 4

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Media giant Time Warner will pay a three-hundred-million-dollar penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The civil penalty is to settle charges the company overstated revenues earned by its online division AOL. NPR's Jack Spear reports. The

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 24 June 2007 Israeli PM Ehud Olmert, right, and FM Tzipi Livni, attend the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, 24 Jun 2007 Israel plans to release a large sum of money in a bid to boost beleaguered Palestinian President Ma

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North Korea has presented South Korea with sharply elevated rent and wage demands for running a joint industrial facility just inside the North Korean border. At the same time, Pyongyang is refusing to release a detained executive it has held with n

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Developing Countries Want Rich Nations to Pay for Climate Change Delegates from nearly 200 countries - rich and poor - are in Doha to extend the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 global climate change agreement that expires at the end of this month, and to be

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Federal employees can be forgiven for feeling whiplashed by the Trump administration. The president has proclaimed this to be Public Service Recognition Week, acknowledging the nation's civil servants for, quote, their hard w

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All morning, we're bringing you the latest on two major court cases connected to President Donald Trump. The president's former lawyer pleaded guilty to eight charges yesterday. They included illegal payments to keep two women fr

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 19 January 2007 Israel is easing an economic boycott on the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority, releasing funds for the first time in 10 months. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, it is part of Israel's

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By Liam Cochrane Kathmandu 21 May 2007 Nepal's government has agreed to begin making monthly payments to Maoist former rebels now living in U.N.-supervised camps. In return, the Maoists will allow the United Nations to resume efforts to verify the fo

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imposed pay limits on executives of banks and other companies that receive government bailout money to avoid collapse. President Barack Obama listens to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner as he delivers remarks about executive compensation, 04 Feb

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