By Paula Wolfson Washington 30 May 2006 President Bush, left, listens as Henry M. Paulson Jr. speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House Tuesday, May 30, 2006 President Bush has named a new treasury secretary, choosing Wall Street executive Henry

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By Jim Stevenson Washington 29 August 2007 Sixteen teams are preparing to compete next month in the FIFA Women's World Cup football [soccer] tournament in China. One of them is the United States, which has been playing on home soil in a so-called Se

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In today's business news, we look at the end of an era at Walt/ Disney. Today is Michael Eisner 's last day as chief executive of the Walt Disney company. NPR's Kim Masters has this report: Eisner held the top job at Disney for 21 years , that's a g

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By Barry Wood Washington 15 May 2007 World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz addresses the media at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, 02 May 2007 Paul Wolfowitz, a scholar and former number two at the U.S. Defense Department, is expected to

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By George Dwyer Washington, D.C. 21 August 2006 watch Celebrations report Afghanistan marked the 87th anniversary of its independence from British rule this week on Saturday, August 19 with observances across the globe. As VOA's George Dwyer reports

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By Gilbert Da Costa Abuja 29 May 2006 Nigerian Senator Idris Kuta, left, Senator Shola Adeleye, center and Niger State Governor Abdulahi Kure, right celebrate outside the National Assembly in Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday, May 16, 2006 A few weeks ago, th

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: If President Trump's first year in office seemed chaotic from a staffing perspective, there's a reason for that. According to a new Brookings Institution report, turnover among top-level staff in the Trump White House set records

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By Andre de Nesnera Washington 01 November 2006 Kofi Annan steps down as United Nations secretary-general at the end of the year. During his tenure, he has pushed for U.N. reforms, including enlarging the Security Council. The United Nations Securit

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Development Groups Work to Secure Land Rights for Africas Poor In Africa and elsewhere in the developing world, less than a third of people living on the land actually own it or have any officially recognized right to it. Development experts say gain

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By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 12 October 2006 The new U.S. ambassador to U.N. food agencies based in Rome recently arrived to take up his post. Gaddi Vasquez directed the Peace Corps for the past four-and-a-half years. -- Ambassador Gaddi Vasquez says

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