By Kari Barber Freetown 18 September 2007 A new president, opposition leader Ernest Koroma, has been sworn-in in Sierra Leone. With Koroma's inauguration, outgoing President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah - who is often credited with bringing the nation out its

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By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 29 September 2007 Ukrainian voters go to the polls on Sunday in a special election to choose a new parliament. But as VOA correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports from Kyiv there is widespread doubt about the credibility of the e

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By VOA News 15 January 2008 A group of climate researchers says there is evidence that global warming is causing the Antarctic ice cap to melt more quickly than it did 10 years ago. The scientists said Monday they used satellite data to monitor the A

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By Mil Arcega Washington D.C. 24 January 2008 U.S. stock markets staged a late rally on Wednesday, with the major indexes all posting gains. Asian markets also rebounded, reversing a two-day free fall as investors welcomed the U.S. Federal Reserve's

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The United States said Friday it is prepared for significant improvement in the chilly relationship with Belarus, but will be looking closely at the conduct of elections in that country next month as well as other issues. Belarus this month released

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An eccentric is defined as a person who deviates from accepted conduct. Nonconformists have achieved greatness in many fields, but many of us remain wary of those who seem odd, extreme, perhaps disturbed or even dangerous. We think of eccentrics as

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By Mandy Clark Kabul 10 June 2008 Afghanistan's women are venturing out and embracing new opportunities that were once strictly forbidden under the rule of the ultra-religious Taliban. Seven years after the Taliban were ousted, over two million wome

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In countries around the world, hundreds of thousands of poor people face daily hazards to earn meager livings by scavenging for recyclable goods. In Cambodia, hundreds of scavenger families find their lives changing - they will lose their homes and

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The Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, on Wednesday cut short-term interest rates in an effort to boost the slowing economy. VOA's Barry Wood reports it was the eighth cut in the overnight federal funds rate in the past year. United States Fede

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By Phuong Tran Dakar 01 August 2007 In the west African country of Mauritania, a criminal court has dropped terrorism charges against 14 men who had been accused of aiding a group allied to al-Qaida. Phuong Tran has reactions to the court's decision

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By Phuong Tran Dakar 06 September 2007 As trade negotiators meet in Geneva on the stalled negotiations known as the Doha round, government ministers from West Africa's biggest cotton producing countries met in Burkina Faso to prepare their demands on

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By Savita Patel Washington 06 May 2008 A popular Indian style rural opera called Nautanki was recently staged at a theater in California's high-tech Silicon Valley. It was the retelling of a decades old popular Indian opera Sultana Daku. VOA's Savit

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By Mona Ghuneim New York 04 August 2007 Many U.S. restaurants are now taking steps to be more ecologically conscious in their business practices. From recycling to using nontoxic cleaning products to installing energy-efficient forms of lighting, din

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 01 September 2007 The world's biggest aircraft manufacturers are in the race to supply the Indian air force with 126 new fighter jets in a deal worth an estimated $10 billion. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, th

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By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 07 July 2007 A bombing casualty, from the village of Armili, Iraq, is treated in Kirkut hospital, 7 Jul 2007 A suicide truck bomber has set off his explosives in a rural Iraqi village, killing more than a hundred peopl

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 09 September 2007 Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan is seen lying in a bathtub filled with pink and red rose petals in a first-ever promotional campaign for Lux beauty soap India's beauty and grooming industry is targeting a

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From Asia to the Americas, world stock markets are weathering another day of losses. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Washington that the global sell-off comes as the Bush administration announces a major shift in its strategy to rescue troubled fi

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Over the course of American history, several religious sects and utopian societies have flowered, only to fade away. But out in the country in 28 U.S. states, a group that is deliberately living in a 19th-century time warp is prospering. The Amish d

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The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Kashmir was set up in 1949 to monitor a cease-fire between India and Pakistan. The two fledgling nations had just emerged from two years of war for control over the scenic Himalayan region. But since a U.N.-backed li

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There are only three fruits which are completely native to North America: blueberries, Concord grapes and cranberries. Cranberries, which are harvested in the fall, have a special place in American tradition as a celebration food of Thanksgiving and

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