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A: May I help you? B: I would like to return this book. A: May I do anything else for you? B: I would also like to check out this magazine. A: I cant let you do that. B: Why is that? A: Our policy doesnt allow anyone to check out the magazines. B: Wh
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By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 10 July 2007 Sudan's government has missed a deadline to withdraw all its troops from southern Sudan as called for by a landmark peace deal. As Nick Wadhams reports from our East Africa bureau in Nairobi, the news could be a b
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By Barbara Schoetzau New York 09 August 2006 A delegation from the League of Arab Nations has met with the U.N. Security Council to push for revisions to the U.S.-French draft resolution aimed at a truce in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah
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By VOA News 16 April 2008 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States needs to overhaul its approach to national security. Gates told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday there needs to be what he called a fairly dramatic change to better protect th
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