By Dan Robinson Washington 16 February 2007 After four days of debate, the House of Representatives has approved, by a vote of 246 to 182, a non-binding resolution disapproving of President Bush's new troop deployment to Iraq. Majority Democrats cal

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By Paula Wolfson White House 29 March 2007 The U.S. Congress and the White House have moved a step closer to a major confrontation on Iraq. The Senate has passed a war funding bill that includes wording on a troop withdrawal. VOA's Paula Wolfson repo

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The U.N. Security Council is continuing to weigh whether to authorize a request from the secretary-general for an additional 3,000 peacekeepers to reinforce the U.N.'s overstretched peacekeeping mission in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. F

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 19 December 2007 The end of 2007 will mark the one-year anniversary of an Ethiopia-led offensive that ousted Somalia's Islamist movement from power and helped install a secular interim government in its place. As VOA Corresponde

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By Al Pessin Washington 10 September 2007 The American commander in Iraq says the U.S. troop presence there will be reduced by about 2,000 this month, and another 3,500 by the end of the year. But General David Petraeus said he needs most of the 168,

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Better To Reign In Hell: Literature's Unpunished Villains KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: We've talked a lot about good books this summer, but our books editor Petra Mayer has been thinking about the bad, like villains in literature who get away with being bad.

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